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shorter than the petals, cylindric, adpressed-pubescent outside, the 

 mouth almost entire or minutely toothed. Anthers 8, linear-elliptic, their 

 fipices nob reaching the mouth of the tube. Disc much longer than the 

 ovary, cylindric, glabrous externally, softly pubescent internally espe- 

 cially at the acutely 8-toothed mouth. Ovary narrowly ovoid-conic, 

 tapeiing into the long glabrous cylindric style, 4-angled, densely ad- 

 pressed-pubescent ; stigma exserted, thickly discoid, rugulose, with a 

 narrow annulus at its base. Fruit turbinate, with four shallow vei'tical 

 grooves and four broad rounded angles, sub-o-labrous, crowned for a time 

 by the persistent stout short style, when fully ripe white slightly 

 tinged with pink, about 1'25 in. long, and IS in., or more in diam. 

 0. DC. in Mon. Phan. I, 485. D. Lampo>igum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 

 196, 303 (excl. var. B., fide Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. IV., 20.) 



Perak: King's Collector, Nos. 5128, 6788, 10440; Wray, Nos. 

 2329, 3072. Selangore : Ridley, No. 1892. Distrib. Borneo. 



I follow Miquel and M. C. deCandolle in keeping this species up. 

 It is, however, very closely allied to D. excelsum, Bl. The panicles of 

 Perak specimens are rather shorter and fewer-flowered than in those 

 collected in Borneo ; in other respects they agree. 



11. Dtsoxyldm cauliflorum, Hiern in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I., 549. 

 A tree 30 to 5 ) feet high. Leaves 1 to 2 feet long, their petioles and 

 rachises deciduously rusty-puberulous, angled, unequally pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets 9 to 13, membranous, opposite or alternate, oblong-elliptic or ellip- 

 tic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded at one side and 

 obliquely cut away at the other ; both surfaces glabrous except the 

 pubescent midrib ; main nerves 8 to 13 pairs, spreading, rather promi- 

 nent on the lower surface ; length 4 to 7 in. occasionally 12 in., breadth 

 1*75 to 2-75 in., petiolules 2 to '3 in. Spikes from 1 to 3 in. long, 

 tawny-tomentose, in dense clusters on rugose woody tubercles from 

 the stem. Floioers "3 to '35 in. long, their pedicels about '1 in. 

 bracteolate at the base. Calyx cupular, with 3 or 4 broad irregular 

 teeth, pubescent. Petals 4, oblong, obtuse, glabrous inside, glabrous 

 or puberulous outside, free from the staminal tube. Stammal tube 

 cylindric, glabrescent or sparsely sericeous outside, sericeous inside, 

 the mouth with 8 broad shallow bifid teeth ; anther's 8, ovate, included. 

 Disc tubular, membranous, longer than the ovai-y, glabrous, the mouth 

 obscurely crenate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, densely pilose ; the style 

 cylindric, sparsely pilose in the lower, glabrous in the upper half. 

 Stigma slightly exserted, broadly discoid with a narrow annulus at its 

 batie. Fruit ovoid, apiculate, tapering slightly at the base sub- 

 striate, glabrous, red-coloured, splitting into 4 valves. Seeds sub-globular 

 plano-convex, '5 in. long. C. DC. in Mon. Phan. f., 498. 



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