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covered with black pubescence, few-flowered, collected on extra-axillary 

 or axillary tubercles, sometimes forming small panicles, consisting 

 mostly of <? flowers, and often with only a few 2 , with many 

 oblanceolate blunt bracts -25 to 'S in. long, and some smaller brac- 

 teoles ; branches of the cyme striate when dry. Calyx -15 in. long, 

 divided to its base into 4 broadly ovate undulate lobes. Corolla 

 in bud cylindric, tetragonous at the base ; about '4 in. long, tomen- 

 tose, deeply divided into 4 narrowly elliptic blunt lobes. Stamens 

 about 16 in 2 rows, united into a tube, the anterior row smaller than 

 the posterior, all narrow and apiculate, the filaments short and hairy. 

 Female floioers like the 3' as to calyx, but with corolla somewhat longer 

 and with about 12 flat staminodes. Ovary ovoid-conic, tomentose, 

 attenuated into a long style. Stigma with several small lobes ; ovary 

 8-celled. i^nai when ripe ovoid-globular, 1 to 1-25 in. in diam., glab- 

 rescent, subtended by the accrescent calyx with large reticulate undulate 

 lobes. Seeds compressed, oblong. Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 

 571 . D. frutescens, Hassk. PI. As. Ear. 467 {not of Blume). 



Malacca: Chi ffith (K. J).) 3620. Peeak: S cor tecJmii 1765; King's 

 Collector 8261. — Disteib. Java. 



Specimens of this sent from Herbarium Koordersianum, Buitenzorg, have pentamerous 

 flowers ; but in other respects they do not differ from the Perak specimens in Herb. 

 Calcutta. 



24. DiosPYEOS TOPOSioiDES, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 tree 15 to 40 feet high, sometimes only a shrub; young branches 

 rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. 

 Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, 

 base rounded ; edges slightly recurved when dry ; both surfaces pale 

 olivaceous when dry, minutely but distinctly reticulate, the upper 

 shining, the lower darker and dull ; midrib channelled on the upper 

 surface, strong and prominent on the lower ; main-nerves 16 to 20 pairs, 

 spreading, little-curved, interarching far from the edge, the intermediate 

 nerves nearly as prominent ; length 7 to 11 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; 

 petiole -3 to -4 in. long, stout, wrinkled when dry like the midrib. Male 

 flowers '25 in. long, on pedicels longer than themselves, in* cymose 

 axillary panicles about 1 in. in length. Calyx coriaceous, glabrous, 

 campanulate, with wide truncate entire or sub-entire mouth. Corolla 

 slightly exceeding the calyx, ovoid, inflated below, contracted to the 

 4-toothed apex. Stamens numerous, linear, slightly auricled at the base, 

 filaments very short. Female flotvers when in bud "3 in. long, conical. 

 Calyx acutely 4-angled in bud ; the 4 lobes deltoid, very coriaceous, 

 puberulous outside, rusty-tomentose inside like the ovary and young 



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