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and 2 in. across ; the panicle large and spreading, with berries 

 as large as those of D. Maivfiayi Bak. 



Rather rare, in dense woods. Malacca, at Hulu Belangkan ; Pe- 

 nang, on Mouiot's Road (Curtis, no. 2302) ; Perak, on Hermitage Hill. 



D. Maingayi Hook. fil. /.. c. 329. A very fine large tree about 

 40 ft. in height, with strict branches forming a large dense crown. 

 The stem is 2 or 3 ft. through, the wood hard and white. The 

 leaves are deep green and shining, lanceolate or oblong-acuminate, 

 about 1 ft. long and 3 in. across, but often much narrower in pro- 

 portion ; the petiole is 1 in. long, winged to the base. The panicles 

 are borne on the ends of the branches ; they are 2 ft. long, with a 

 few stout spreading branches. The bracts are lanceolate-acuminate; 

 the flowers rather distant on the branches, about five together in a 

 tuft, with several short ovate-lanceolate bractlets at the base. The 

 fruits are as large as cherries, globose, and polished orange. 



It inhabits sandy woods, usually near the sea; and I have met 

 with it in Singapore at Changi (4413), Sungei Moral, Joas, and 

 Bukit Panjang (5919) ; in Johore at Batu Pahat ; in Malacca at 

 Bukit Bruang, and on Pulau Besar, where Grifiith also collected it. 



D. aurantiaca Wall. Cat. 6744. /). Cantleyi Bak. in Journ. 

 Bot. 1881, 326. D. marmorata Bak. in Bot. Mag. t. 7078. A large 

 shrub, sometimes almost a tree, with usually the habit of CordyUne 

 terminalis Kth., erect, little or not branched. Stem about 12 ft. 

 tall or much less, 1 in. or less through. Leaves on the end of the 

 branches or main stem, coriaceous, lanceolate or oblong-cuspidate 

 or ovate-acuminate, tapering to the base, Avith a winged petiole, 

 from 1 to 3 ft. long, 4 or 5 in. across, polished green or purple, 

 marbled with ring-shaped lighter patches. Panicle erect, large, 

 terminal, stout, about 1^ ft. long, with spreading branches thickly 

 covered with flowers. Bracts 1 in. long, ^ in. across, lanceolate- 

 acuminate, acute, the floral bracts much smaller. Flowers usually 

 purple outside, white within, more rarely green or greenish white, 

 cylindrical, slender, 1 in. long, on short pedicels f in. long, arranged 

 in tufts of three or four, with very small ovate bractlets. Stamens 

 as long as the perianth-lobes, white ; style a little longer, rather 

 stout ; stigma capitate. Fruit orange, as big as a cherry. Seed 

 translucent, white. 



It inhabits open places, borders of woods, especially in wet spots, 

 and is common all over Singapore and Southern Johore ; further 

 north it is less plentiful, and almost disappears northwards. In 

 Malacca it occurs at Nyalas and Panchur, and in Penang at Paya 

 Terobong. (Nos. 5879, 5880, 4G82, 1G44, 1650.) 



Though an unmistaliable plant when alive, herbarium specimens 

 seem to give much trouble on account of the variable form of the 

 leaf. The stem branches when the top is lost, and old stumps often 

 attain a considerable size. The leaves vary much even in the same 

 plant. A form with long narrow pendent leaves is figured in the 

 Botanical Mayazine under the name of />. marmorata Bak. In other 

 plants there is more of a distinction between blade and petiole, and 

 sometimes both forms occur on the same plant ; they vary, too, in 

 colouring. In hot open swamps they are of a deep violet-purple, 



