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RECCAUI. 
very narrow annular rim round the fiat orbicular scar left by tlie 
flower. Areola of the neuter flower rather small, concave, niche-like, 
not callous. Female flowers 5 mm. long, when in bud, with an ovate 
base and a trigonus apex; the calyx very shallowly cupular with 3 broad 
acute teeth ; the corolla 4 times as long as the calyx, parted down almost 
to the base into 3 elongately triangular; sharply striately veined segments. 
Fruiting perianth very broadly obconic and therefore not distinctly 
pedicelliform. Fruit small, spherical, very shortly and broadly conieally 
beaked, 12 mm. in diameter when quite ripe; scales in 12 to 14 longi- 
tudinal series, polished, narrowly and sharply channeled along the middle 
exactly rhomboid, with an obtuse tip, straw yellow with very narrow 
almost entire margins. Seed globular, slightly depressed, 10 mm. broad, 
8 mm. high, its surface pitted and tubercled. 
Palawan, No. 3791 H. M. Curran, February, 1900. 
D. Cnrranii is a near ally of D. elongatus Bh^ from wliicli it differs in the 
leaves with equidistant leaflets, in the rachis spinulous on the salient angle above, 
and in the sliglitly larger spherical fruit. 
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