Material* for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 95 



Shrubs little or not branched. Panicles 

 with few short or no branches. Leaves 

 narrow linear acuminate sessile. 

 Raceme dense long ... ... ... 3. D. conferta. 



Raceme lax, sometimes branched ... ... 4. D. graminifolia. 



Leaves linear lanceolate sessile ... ... 5. D. Porteri. 



Leaves oblanceolate petioled. 



Stem 2-3 feet tall ... ... ... 6. D. temiflora. 



Stem weak a foot long ••• ... ... 7. D. singapurensis. 



Stems 3 inches or less. 

 Leaves long petiole. Panicle short dense 8. D. congesta. 

 Leaves short petioled. Flowers crowded 



campanulate very short ••• ••• 9. D. breviflora. 



Panicle large erect. 



Tree, leaves oblanceolate petioled ••• 10. D. Maingayi. 



Shrub leaves lanceolate... ... ... 11. D. penangensis. 



Tall shrubs hardly branched. 



Leaves large, marbled, petiole indistinct 12. D. aurantiaca. 



Leaves long petioled lanceolate ... ••• 1.3 D. Jackiana. 



Shrubs. Panicles nodding branches long 

 slender. 



Leaves narrow linear ... ... •■• 14. D. nutans. 



Leaves large oblanceolate ... ... 15. D. pendula. 



Leaves small lanceolate ... ... ... 16. D. elliptic a. 



1. D. GKANULATA, Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 327. A tall 

 elegant tree 20 to 60 feet tall. Stem 4 inches through or more much 

 branched above, densely leafy, bark smooth white. Leaves linear 

 acuminate dark green, bases clasping the stem 6 to 10 inches long i to. 

 i inch wide. Panicle rather lax a foot long about 6 inches across, 

 branches suberect rather slender. Flowers somewhat distant an inch 

 long, whitish green pedicel i inch long. Perianth tube split about half 

 way down base dilated lobes linear. Stamens as long as the lobes, 

 filaments fairly stout. Stigma clubbed. Fruit globose orange f to 1 

 inch through. 



D. graminifolia, Ridl. Journ. Bot. 1896, p. 2. (not Wallich). 



Singapore : Bukit Timah (Ridley 3587a), Bukit Mandai (3800) ; 

 Johor : Scudai river ; Perak : dense wet jungle with 200 feet of sea 

 level, Larut (King's Collector 6808). 



Endemic. In swampy forests. 



D. gramdata, Hook, fil. is based on a single specimen in fruit, and 

 I take it to be the same as the Singapore plant though the branches of 



