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dry rather pale olivaceous-brown, glabrous ; the upper shining, the 

 lower glaucous, dull ; main-nerves 8 or 9 pairs, curving upwards, faint 

 on both surfaces midrib bold on the lower surface, depressed on the 

 upper; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; petiole -25 to -4 in 

 Male floivers in short rusty-pubescent axillary and extra-axillary cymes 

 from -5 to -75 in. long, bracts ovate, -1 in. long. Calyx -15 in. long, 

 campanulate, adpressed rusty-tomentose on both surfaces, cut half- 

 way into 4 broad triangular erect lobes. Corolla tomentose externally 

 {fide C. B. Clarke) nearly "5 in. long, its lobes about -1 in. Stamens 

 about 12; anthers linear, with villous connective and glabrous 

 filaments. Feinale floivers unknown. Fruit globular, the apex con- 

 cave and bearing the short remains of the style, -65 in. in diam., 

 minutely rusty adpressed-pubescent, becoming glabrous ; the calyx 

 at its base woody, cupular, with 4 broad lobes with reflexed apices. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 974. Singapore : Bidley 5644. 



This does not agree with D. undulata, Wall., of which Hiern, in Trans. Camb. Phil. 

 Soc. XII. 215, makes it a variety. It comes much nearer to, but is smaller in all its 

 parts than, the plant named by us D. Wallichii, which was originally issued as 

 D. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 4141. 



11. DiosPYROs CLAviGERA, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 558 

 (1882). A tree ; all parts glabrous except the minutely pilose-cihate margin 

 of the calyx. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, elliptic, tapering slightly 

 to each end (sub-rhomboidal) ; both surfaces warm brown when dry, the 

 upper glabrous, shining, the lower dull ; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 little curved, ascending, slightly prominent on the lower surface, faint 

 on the upper ; length 3-25 to 4*5, breadth 1-5 to 2-15 in. ; petioles -15 

 to -2 in. Male floivers 3 to 16 together in small sub-sessile axillary and 

 extra-axillary cymes. Calyx -15 in. long, deeply divided into 4 obtuse 

 lobes. Corolla (in bud) -35 in. long, clavate, glabrous outside, the 

 upper part very thick, 4-lobed. Stamens about 16, glabrous ; anthers 

 oblong, shortly apiculate. Female floioer and fruit unknown. D. 

 Ebcnum, Hiern {not of Koenig) in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 208 

 {i7i part). 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 971 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3635. Langkawi : 

 Curtis 3418. Singapore : Maingay 5066. 



12. DiosPYROS BiLocuLARis, Oliver in Hook. Ic. PL t. 2336 (1894). 

 A glabrous tree 60 to 80 feet high ; young branches about the thickness 

 of a goose-quill, dark purplish when dry and shining, slightly striate. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous ; elliptic, sub-acute, the base slightly cuneate, 

 the edges (when dry) recurved ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the 

 upper shining, the lower paler and dull ; midrib inconspicuous and 



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