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XXIII. MALVACE^. 



[Durio. 



appeared to be male, the female parts abortive. A very small 

 fruited variety with only one carpel and one seed occurs, and a 

 large form with an increase of carpellary whorls, the fruit being 

 open at the top and containing a second abortive fruit surrounded 

 by the normal seeds of the outer carpels, " Durian Gajah " of the 

 Malays. The species occurs also on the Malay islands, but whence 

 its origin is doubtful. 



(2) D. malaccensis Planch, in Hook. fd. F.B.I, i. 351 ; Becc. 

 Malesia, iii. 237, /. xii. figs. 6 to 8; King, I.e. 51 ; Masters, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xiv. 501, /. xiv. figs. 17 to 20. 



Fig. 26. — Durio malaccensis. 



A big tree. Leaves ehiptic-lanceolate acuminate, acute, base 

 sub-acute or rounded ; nerves 20 pairs, slender, visible on both 

 surfaces, thinly coriaceous, above smooth, beneath covered with 

 peltate scales, 5'5 to 7 in. long, 1*5 to i*8 in. wide; petioles thick, 

 •5 in. long, scaly. Peduncles "5 to i in. long, angled bearing 2 to 3 

 flowers on i in. pedicels. Flowers white, 2'5 in. long. Bracts 2, 

 ovate, I in. long, acute. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, scaly, i in. long. 

 Petals linear-oblong, 2*5 in. long, '5 in. wide, pubescent with 

 scattered scales outside. Stamens forming a tube, branching into 

 5 phalanges of several compound filaments free above and bearing 

 a cluster of anthers, shorter than the petals. Style densely woolly. 

 Fruit green with numerous processes. Hah. Forests. Malacca, 

 Batu Tiga (Derry, Griffith). Negri Sembilan, Triang Forest 



