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fruit, accrescent in fruit. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, 

 tubular, with 4 short erect ovate lobes, quite glabrous. Staminodes 

 about 12, flattened, villous behind. Ovary conical, densely rusty- 

 tomentose. Stigma glabrous, short, with 8 small lobes. Fruit in 

 cymes, depressed- globular, 1 to 1"25 in. in diam., much exceeding the 

 minutely reticulate calyx, glabrescent, minutely tuberculate. Seeds 

 compressed. 



Peeak: King's Collector 4106, 4361, 4889, 5769, 8242, 8357; 

 Scortechini ; Bidley 3079, 10302 ? 



The leaves of this in texture and reticulations much resemble those of D. Toposia, 

 Ham. The flowers and inflorescence are, however, different from those of that 

 species. 



25. DiosPYROS OLEiFOLiA, Wall. Cat. 4128 (1829). A tree ; young 

 branches tvnce as thick as a crow-quill, almost black when dry, 

 sparsely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; narrowly oblong to 

 elliptic, sub-acute or acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface pale 

 olivaceous, glabrous, shining ; the lower yellowish, dull, for the most 

 part glabrous, but usually with sparse adpressed black detachable 

 hairs near the midrib and base ; main-nerves invisible on either 

 surface ; midrib strong on the lower surface, slightly depressed on 

 the upper, length 6"5 in. ; breadth 2 in. ; petiole -25 in. long. 

 Male cymes on axillary peduncles about -3 in. long, each bearing 3 

 unequally pedicellate flowers "5 in. long ; all very dark in colour and 

 with black hairs like those on the outer surface of the calyx. Calyx 

 •4 in. long, tubular-campanulate, densely adpressed rusty-tomentose 

 inside, cut half-way down into 4 triangular erect lobes. Corolla 

 tubular, slightly longer than the calyx, very thick, densely tomentose 

 like the interior of the calyx ; its lobes 4, very thick, oblong, spreading 

 slightly. Anthers attached near the base of the tube, 16, linear- 

 lanceolate, sessile. Female floivers on longer panicles than the males ; 

 pedunculate calyx with 4 triangular acute lobes, velvety outside, tawny- 

 tomentose inside. Fruit depressed-globose, 1*35 in. in diam. ; the 

 pericarp woody, glabrous when ripe, tawny-tomentose when young, 

 the persistent calyx at its base thick, woody, nearly 1 in. in diam., 

 with dark tomentum outside. A. DC. Prod. VII. 132 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLI., Pt. II. 72, id. XLVL, Pt. II. 235, 

 and For. PL II. 132; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 204; 

 Clarke in Hook fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 567. 



Penang : Curtis 1573. Peeak: King's Collector 3876; Scortechini. 

 — DisTEiB. Burma, Java. 



26. DiosPYEOs BEACHiATA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous tree 

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