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1301, 1476. Singapore : Bidley 3648, 5898 ; Hullett 825. Perak r 

 Wray 172, 1392; Kmg's Collector 4812, 5862, 6387, 6896, 8003, 

 8142 ; Scortechini 498. Pangkore : Curtis 1365. Selangor : Bidley. 

 10271. Pahang: Bidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 318 in 

 Tahan woods. 



22. DiosPTROs rigida, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 

 257 (1873). A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; young branches as thick 

 as a goose-quill, minutely dark rusty-tomentose. Leaves alternate, 

 very coriaceous, large ; oblong or elliptic-oblong, equal-sided, the 

 apex sub-acute, the base rounded and neither oblique nor cordate ; 

 upper surface dark olivaceous-brown when dry, shining, minutely 

 reticulate; lower paler olivaceous-brown, covered except the midrib 

 with a very thin film of minute tomentum, minutely reticulate ; 

 midrib very bold on the lower surface, pubescent at the sides, 

 slightly depressed on the upper; main-nerves 14 to 20 pairs, spread- 

 ing, interarching -35 in. from the edge, slightly distinct on the 

 lower surface, invisible on the upper ; length 10 to 18 in., breadth 2 to 

 4 in. ; petiole '4 to -6 in., very stout. Male flowers when in bud -4 in. 

 long and nearly -3 in, in diam., few, in short extra-axillary cymes, 

 densely covered with black tomentum ; the pedicels stout, deflexed^ 

 about '75 in. long. Calyx densely tomentose, ovoid, tapered to the 

 apex, its mouth with 4 broad shallow blunt teeth. Corolla (apparently) 

 not much longer than the calyx, very coriaceous, glabrous, the tube 

 ovoid ; the lobes short, oblong, blunt. Stamens about 20, inserted at 

 the base of the tube, unequal ; anthers lanceolate, apiculate, almost 

 sessile. Female flowers unknown. Eipe friiit in cymes, depressed- 

 globose, glaberulous, with a woody rind, 1-75 in. in length from base to 

 apex and 2 in. in diam. ; remains of style none ; calyx at base of fruit 

 cupular, 1-5 in. across, divided into 4 reticulate leathery spreading 

 broadly ovate lobes ; peduncle "75 to 1*25 in. long, with dark hispid 

 hairs. 



Perak: King's Collector 4024, 5732, 5971, 6801; Wray 3708.— 

 DiSTRiB. Borneo. 



23. DiosPYROS Horsfieldii, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 

 193 (1873). A tree 20 to 40 feet high, all parts except the cymes 

 glabrous ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous ; oblong-elliptic or ovate-oblong, apex sub-acute, 

 base slightly cuneate or rounded, the edges slightly recurved when dry; 

 upper surface when dry olivaceous-green, lower surface brown ; the 

 midrib and nerves depressed ; the reticulations, midrib, and 8 to 14 

 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves very bold and prominent ; length 

 6 to 10 in., breadth 2-5 to 4 in. ; petioles -35 in. Cymes 2 to 3 in. long, 



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