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Fruit sub-sessile, solitary, ovoid-conic, finely rusty-setose, especially 

 in the upper half, about 1 in. long and -5 to -75 in. across, apiculate. 

 Seeds about 4, albumen not ruminate. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 553. 



Malacca: Maingaij (K.D.) 1514. Pekak : King's Collector 5127, 

 6770. Penang: Curtis 1584. 



9. DiosPYEOS lance^folia, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 93 (1814). A tree ; 

 young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, adpressed-puberulous, 

 dark brown when dry. Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate, 

 the edges recurved ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the 

 upper darker and shining, the lower paler and dull ; main-nerves 7 to 

 9 pairs, spreading, faint on both surfaces ; midrib bold on the lower 

 surface, depressed on the upper ; length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth -65 to 

 1 in. ; petiole -15 to -2 in. Male flowers sessile in clusters. Calyx 

 •15 in. long with 4 ovate tawny-sericeous lobes. Corolla '35 to "5 in. 

 long, narrowed upwards, the lobes -15 in. long. Stamens about 16; 

 anthers linear, glabrous or slightly pilose at the base ; filaments 

 minutely pilose. Female flowers solitary or in pairs on the branches 

 below the leaves, -5 in. long. Calyx -3 in. long, very coriaceous, 

 densely sericeous-pubescent on both surfaces, deeply divided into 

 4 erect, broadly reniform, acute lobes. Corolla a little longer than 

 the calyx, densely sericeous-tomentose outside, the tube glabrous 

 inside ; lobes of limb 4, oblong, very thick. Staininodes 8, linear 

 compressed. Ovary broadly ovate, acuminate, densely silky; stigmas 

 4, glabrous. Fruit ovoid or sub-globose, rusty-villous ; its calyx 1 in. 

 in diam. with thickened tube and spreading lobes. Eoxb. PI. Ind. 

 II. 537 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 232 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 

 XII. 213; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XLVI., ii. 236, and For. M. 

 II. 136; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 562. D. multiflora, 

 Wall. Cat. 4144; A. DC. I.e. 231. D. amoena, Wall. Cat. 4139; 

 A. DC. I.e. 231. 



Singapore : Bidley 4964. Pahang : Bidley 1601. — Distrib. 

 Assam range of hills, Burma, Sumatra. 



The chief characters separating this from D. lucida, Wall., are the longer lobes of 

 the calyx of the female flower and the somewhat larger and more hairy fruit. This 

 species is not common within our area, whereas D. lucida is a common tree. 



10. DiosPYROS pachyphylla, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 568 (1882). A tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, 

 deciduously puberulous, soon glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; 

 elliptic or oblong, sub-acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces when 



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