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Malacca: Griffith (K.T).) 3632. Kedah : Curtis 2596,8327?; 

 Eidley 327. 



17. DiosPYBOS TRiSTis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 

 feet high ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, covered with 

 deciduous almost black tomentum. Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; 

 oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; both 

 surfaces dingy olivaceous-brown when dry, minutely reticulate ; upper 

 surface glabrous, shining, the lower dull, the prominent midiib densely 

 clothed with dark hairs ; the 7 or 8 pairs of prominent ascending 

 main-nerves and the intermediate spaces with a few similar hairs with 

 bulbous bases; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 2'75 in.; petioles '4 

 to -5 in. Male floiuers -3 in. long, in short axillary cymes -75 in. long, 

 the branches and pedicels densely dark rusty-tomentose outside. Calyx 

 glabrous inside ; the mouth with 5 broad short obtuse teeth. Corolla 

 fleshy, glabrous, like the calyx in shape and of about the same length. 

 Stamens 24 ; anthers lanceolate, shortly appendiculate at the apex, 

 sessile. Female floivers unknown. Fruit depressed-globose, glabrous, 

 shining, nearly 2 in. in diam. ; the calyx at its base thick, woody, flat, 

 1-5 in. across, with 5 spreading triangular lobes. 



Peeak : Wray 2190 ; Kincj's Collector 5521. 



18. DiosPYEOS PAuciPLORA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous shrub 

 or small tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, their 

 bark dark and rough. Leaves rather large, alternate, very coriaceous ; 

 oblong-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the 

 base slightly cuneate ; upper surface olivaceous, shining, lower 

 ochraceous, dull; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, curved, and 

 interarching boldly -1 or -2 in. from the slightly recurved edge ; length 

 5 to 10 in., breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole -25 to "3 in., corrugated. 

 Male floivers -Sin. long, sessile and in sessile axillary fascicles of from 3 

 to 6. Calyx -25 in. long, narrowly tubular, somewhat narrowed at 

 base and apex, coriaceous, pale in colour, the mouth with 4 broad 

 triangular short erect lobes, outer surface with a layer of minute 

 adpressed tawny tomentum and scattered over it many black adpressed 

 hairs ; the interior paler, pustular, with a few similar scattered hairs 

 and a thick ring of them near the base surrounding the rudimentary 

 ovary and clothing it also. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, 

 fleshy, widely tubular, divided for half its length into 4 broad obtuse 

 lobes with a broad line of adpressed black hairs along the midrib of each 

 outside, the rest of the outer surface adpressed-sericeous, the interior 

 quite glabrous. Stamens 12, viz., 8 in pairs standing face to face and 

 united by their short filaments, and 4 free ; anthers of all linear, 

 densely hairy, on short glabrous filaments. Female floivers not seen. 



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