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slightly channelled on the upper surface, bold on the lower ; main-nerves 

 10 to 12 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, interarching far from the 

 edge, faint on both surfaces ; length 5 to 6'5 in., breadth 2-5 to 3-25 in. 

 Male flotoers -65 in. long (in bud) on rusty-pubescent pedicels -3 to 

 •4 in. long, in axillary and extra-axillary fascicles of 2 to 4, with a few 

 tomentose bracteoles at their bases. Calyx very coriaceous, "25 in, long 

 and nearly as much in width at the mouth ; limb 4-lobed, the 

 lobes very short and broad. Coi'olla narrowly tubular, -4 in. long, 

 very thick ; lobes of limb long, narrowly oblong. Stamens 16 ; 

 sub-sessile, linear, sub-equal, apiculate ; rudimentary ovary none. 

 Female flower; calyx and corolla as in the $, staminodes none; 

 ovary oblong or oval-ovoid, narrowed at the apex, longer than the 

 calyx, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell land pendulous. Fruit olive- 

 shaped, shortly apiculate, 1-5 to 2 in. long and 1 to 1"25 in. in diam. at 

 the middle, yellow when ripe ; its pedicel obconic, stout, woody, -4 in. 

 long; calyx in ripe fruit flat, with 4 broad blunt lobes. Seed solitary;, 

 pericarp thin, only -3 in. across, albumen large stellately ruminate. 

 Maba Maingayi, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 107 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 552. 



Malacca: Maincjay (K.D.) 976; Derry 1092. Singapoee : Ridley 

 27, 2755, 4920. Peeak: at elevations of 1,500 to 2,000 feet, Kmg's 

 Collector 7383. 



13. DiosPYEOS sTYRACiFOEMis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 

 young branches rusty-pubescent, slightly thicker than a crow-quill. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous ; elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, the apex sub- 

 acute or acute, the base cuneate ; upper suface dark olivaceous, shining, 

 glabrous except the depressed midrib ; the lower surface dull, paler, 

 with deciduous rufous pubescence, especially on the prominent midrib ; 

 main-nerves about 5 pairs, ascending, little curved, slightly prominent 

 on the lower surface only; length 2*5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 2 in. ; 

 petiole "2 to '35 in. Male flowers a few together in short cymes grouped 

 in small axillary clusters. Calyx -2 in. long, narrowly campanulate, 

 densely rusty-tomentose externally like the corolla, the mouth with 

 deep narrowly-triangular teeth. Corolla "5 in. long, narrowly tubular, 

 cut half-way down into 4 oblong blunt lobes. Staviens 16, in pairs, 

 unequal, linear, apiculate ; filaments unequal in length ; rudimentary 

 ovary none. Feinale flowers solitary, calyx much longer than in the ^ ; 

 its 4 lobes thick, broad, reniform, rusty-pubescent. Corolla not known ; 

 ovary hairy. Fruit globose with the apex truncate and depressed in 

 the middle, densely but minutely pale rusty-tomentose, -5 in. long 

 and about "65 in. in diam. Calyx at its base deeply cupular with 

 4 spreading triangular teeth. D. iwv. spec, C. B. Clarke in Herb. 

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