Durio.\ XXIII. MALVACE^. 263 



(Foxworthy). Perak, Larut (Barnard); Kwala Kangsar (Fox- 

 worthy). Native name : Durian Api. 



(3) D. Lowianus Scort. King, I.e. 51. 



A tree 50 to 60 ft. tall. Young branches, petioles, and lower 

 side of midrib covered with rather large scales, under-side of leaf 

 with smaller ones. Leaf narrow oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, 

 base rounded, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above ; nerves 14 to 18 

 pairs, faint, horizontal, upper surface finely reticulate, 4*5 to 5-5 in. 

 long, 1*5 to 2 in. wide; petioles '5 in. long. Inflorescence on 

 branches of short-branched cymes, 3 in. long and as much across. 

 Pedicels '5 to 75 in. long, scaly. Flowers 2 in. across. Bracts 2 

 or 3*5 in. across, ovate connate. Calyx campanulate, 75 in. long, 

 teeth 3, broad blunt shallow, covered with large scales. Petals 5, 

 oblanceolate pubescent outside, glabrous inside, 1*25 in. long. 

 Stamens in 5 phalanges dividing near the base into 8, sub-dividing 

 at the tip into several short filaments with a single anther. Ovary 

 ovoid, scaly; style pubescent. Hah. Perak (Scortechini). Kedah, 

 Yan (Haniff). 



(5) D. lanceolatus Masters, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 499. 



Branches rather slender. Leaves oblong to lanceolate acute, 

 base rounded, coriaceous ; midrib depressed above, very prominent 

 beneath; nerves invisible; scales rather large, 3-5 in. long, i in. 

 wide ; petioles "25 to 3 in. long. Flowers in short clusters on the 

 branches, the scales on bracts and flower-buds large; pedicels 

 often branched, thick, i in. long. Flowers small, 2 in. long. 

 Stamens tubular only at base. Hab. Hill forests. Selangor, 

 Sempang mines, Semangkok Pass. 



The tree was only in bud when I found it, but it closely resembles D. 

 lanceolatus Mast., of Borneo, though the nervation is more inconspicuous 

 than in the type. 



(5) D. Singaporensis Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. y^, p. 143. 

 Large tree. Leaves oblong obtuse or sub-acute, base blunt, 



rounded, coriaceous glabrous above; midrib channelled, beneath 

 scaly, raw sienna colour ; nerves very numerous, very inconspicuous 

 above and not very distinct beneath, 7 to 9 in. long, 2*5 to 3 in. 

 wide; petioles -25 in. long thick, angled. Flowers in clusters of 

 2 or 3 on the trunk ; peduncles short ; pedicels -5 in. long 4-angled 

 with 2 lanceolate bracts at base, all scaly. Bracts (floral), large 

 ovate acute, i in. long and as wide. Sepals oblong, 2 in. long, 

 acute, scaly cinnamon colour. Petals linear-oblong, 1-5 in. long, 

 outside scaly with fringed scales, cinnamon outside, within pubes- 

 cent, white. Stamens and pistil as in malaccensis. Fruit globose 

 spiny green. Hah. Forests in the south, Singapore, Bukit Timah; 

 Sehtar. Johor, town and Mt. Austen. 



(6) D. Oxleyanus Griff. NotulcB, iv. 531; Masters, in. Hook. fil. 

 F.B.I, i. 351 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 501, t. xvi. 13 to 16. 



Tree. Branchlets, petioles, midrib and inflorescence only scaly. 



