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Malacca, Griffith, (Kew Distribution) No. 1053, Penang : Curtis, 

 Nos. 21-67, 2468. Andaman s : King's Collectors. 



Var. Andamanica : flowers "25 in. long, calyx very short: panicles 

 sometimes as loog as the leaves, lax. 

 S. Andamans. King's Collectors. 



This differs from typical D. thyrsnideum chiefly in the points above 

 noted. When better specimens of the typical Malacca form are ob' 

 tained, charactex'S may be found sufficient to separate the two specie 

 fically. 



8. Dtsoxylum turbinatum, King n. sp. A small tree 12 to 20 feet 

 high; young branches rather stout, the bark pale brown and striate. 

 Leaves 10 to 16 in. long, the petioles and rachises glabroas, terete, equals 

 ly pinnate; leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, sub-opposite, tliinly coriaceous, elliptic 

 to elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base rounded or 

 slij^htly narrowed, not oblique ; both surfaces glabi^ous, the lower sub- 

 glauceons, very minutely dotted, the nerves pubescent when young ; 

 main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, curved, spreading, very prominent on the 

 lower, slightly depressed on the upper surface ; length 3 to 6 or eveu 

 8 in., breadth 1'5 to 25 in. or eveti 3'5 in., petiolules '35 in. Panicles 

 supra-axillary, 3 to 11 in. long, puberulous, rather slender, with few dis- 

 tant minutely bracteolate branches each bearing 5 to 10 flowers mostly 

 in its upper half. Flowers '45 in. long. Galyx cupular, pubescent, nar- 

 rowed to a short fleshy pedicel, its mouth with 4 short triangular teeth. 

 Petals 4, linear-oblong, thickened and slightly concave at the apex, min- 

 utely adpressed-pubeseent outside, witli a few fleshy hairs inside at 

 the apex, otherwise glabrescent. Staminal tube cylindric, slightly short- 

 er than the petals, the mouth with 8 shallow broad truncate teeth, 

 puberulous outside, glabrous inside. Anthers oblong, short, included, 

 Biso half as long as the style, tubular, slightly constricted below the 

 thickened pilose mouth, otherwise glabrous. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 

 densely pilose ; style 4-angled, glabrescent ; stigma slightly exserted, 

 small, discoid, with a basal annulus. Fruit depressed-globular, tapering 

 at the base into a short pseudo-stalk, covei'ed with brownish pale-edged 

 scales, 1*5 in. length (excluding the pseudo-stalk) and slightly more in 

 diameter. 



Perak : King's Collector, No. 8751. Johore : Herb. Ridley, No. 4060, 

 Malacca : Griffith. 



In the above description the flowers are described from the speci- 

 mens of Mr. Ridley and of my own collector, and the fruit from a single 

 Griffithian specimen from Malacca which has no flowers, the three being 

 in my opinion identical. 



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