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as the calyx, narrowly tubular, slightly constricted at the throat, hairy 

 outside, glabrous inside ; the limb with 5 deep oblong lobes. Stamens 

 10, hnear-elliptic, apiculate, inserted in the bottom of the tube, 5 sessile 

 and 5 with filaments. Female floivers shorter than the <? , with 

 small filamentous staminodes. Ovary narrowly ovoid, densely rufous- 

 hirsute, attenuated into a long pubescent style crowned by 5 short 

 glabrous reflexed small stigmas. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, sparsely 

 hairy, -6 to 1 in. long and -5 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent 

 style and subtended by the non-accrescent calyx. Seeds few, narrowly 

 ellipsoid. 



Peeak: Scortcchini 674, 1678; King's Collector 378, 2675, 2987, 

 3573, 7087. 



Differs from all the other Malayan species by its long pedunclecl pendulous 

 inflorescence. 



Species imperfectly known. 

 • 30. DiosPYROS REFLEXA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 

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

 layer of minute deciduous rusty pubescence. Leaves alternate, thickly 

 coriaceous ; oblong to elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; 

 upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower pale brown, both 

 minutely reticulate ; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, interarching 

 •15 in. from the slightly recurved edges ; length 5 to 7-5 in., breadth 

 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole -4 or -5 in. Floivers unknown. Fruit hemi- 

 spheric with depressed truncate apex, under 1 in. in diam. ; the calyx 

 embracing the very base of the fruit with 4 fleshy much reflexed 

 revolute triangular fleshy lobes, densely rusty-tomentose like the fruit. 

 Peeak : King's Collector 7676, 7747. 



The curious fleshy calyx with much-reflexed lobes distinguishes this from all the 

 other Malayan species. 



31. DiosPYROS PENANGiANA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 

 30 feet high ; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, covered 

 with deciduous hair of two sorts, namely, a uniform coat of minute 

 rusty tomentum with long rusty bristle-like hairs protruding through it. 

 Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 narrowed below the middle to the rather broad auriculately cordate 

 base ; upper surface when dry pale brown, shining, glabrous except the 

 puberulous depressed midrib ; lower surface reddish-brown, transversely 

 reticulate, with pubescence like that of the young branches on the stout 

 midrib and 10 to 14 pairs of ascending rather straight main-nerves, 

 otherwise glabrescent ; length 5*5 to 7*5 in., breadth 1-25 to 2-25 in.; 

 petioles -15 to "2 in. long, hispid. Male and female floivers unknown. 



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