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Kew. D. hirsuta, Linn, fil., ? var., Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 

 XII. 165. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 969. Singapore : Bidley 3787. 



Kidley's No. 1084, from Bukit Timah, in Singapore, seems to belong to this. The 

 only specimen I have seen is imperfect. 



14. DiosPYROS lucida, Wall. Cat. 4127 (1829). A tree 40 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches from half as thick to as thick as a crow-quill, 

 minutely puberulous, becoming glabrescent, dark-coloured. Leaves alter- 

 nate, coriaceous ; oblong or elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, the base 

 rounded or cuneate, sometimes a little oblique ; both surfaces when dry 

 pale olivaceous-brown, glabrous ; main-nerves 5 to 9 pairs, spreading, 

 curved, faint on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; 

 midrib bold on the lower surface, somewhat depressed on the upper ; 

 length 1*25 to 4-5 in., breadth -5 to 1-5 in. ; petioles -2 to -4 in. Male 

 fiotuers sessile, in small fascicles. Calyx nearly "15 in. long, campanulate, 

 with 4 erect broadly triangular lobes, tomentose on both surfaces. 

 Corolla narrowly tubular, more than twice as long as the calyx, tetra- 

 gonous in bud, sericeous-tomentose outside, the tube glabrous inside ; 

 limb deeply divided into 4 narrowly oblong thick lobes. Stamens 12 to 

 16, in pairs united by their short filaments and face to face ; anthers 

 linear, glabrous, minutely apiculate, and on short sericeous filaments ; 

 rudimentary ovary linear. Female flowers 1 or 2 together, axillary or 

 extra- axillary, sub-sessile. Calyx longer than in the <? , lobed nearly to the 

 base ; lobes broadly ovate, their recurved margins minutely tomentose. 

 Fncit globose, '75 in. or more in diam., sub-truncate and slightly 

 umbonate at the apex, adpressed rusty-pubescent at first, ultimately 

 glabrous, 4-6- seeded ; the accrescent calyx at its base woody, 

 cupular, -6 in. across with 4 short broad reflexed lobes ; albumen of 

 seed not ruminate. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 233 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 568. D. hirsuta, var. lucida Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. 

 Soc. XII. 163{not of Linn, fil.) 



Malacca: Gi'iffith (K.D.) 3637; Maingay (K.D.) 970, 973, 977, 

 3,500; Derry 1439. Perak : Scortechini ; Wray 3018, 3056. 

 Penang : Curtis 250, 1602 ; King's Collector 1050, 1760. Singapore : 

 Bidley 2119, 2749, 3580, 4962, 4963, 6129, 8115, 9212, 9517. 



This is probably only a southern form of the Indian species D. lanceafolia, Roxb. 



15. Diospyros oblonga. Wall. Cat. 4124 (1829). A tree ; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, purpHsh-brown when dry, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glabrous ; oblong -elliptic, shortly and 

 abruptly apiculate, the base rounded or slightly cuneate ; both surfaces 



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