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Fruit sessile, globulai', from -75 to 1 in. in diam., densely covered with 

 minute rufous tomentum, crowned by the short remains of the style 

 and subtended by the small calyx with 5 broad reflexed lobes. 



Penang : Curtis 2221. •» 



Collected only in Penang. In leaves this resembles the Bornean plant named by 

 Hiern Maha ? cordata. The 5-cleft calyx of this is suggestive rather of Diospyros than 

 of Maha. 



32. DiosPYROS RUFA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet 

 high ; young branches about half as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, 

 glabrous, brown and rough when dry. Leaves alternate, thickly coria- 

 ceous ; oblong-elliptic, sometimes oblanceolate, the apex shortly and 

 bluntly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; upper surface warm 

 brown when dry, glabrous, very shining ; the lower dull, glabrous or 

 slightly puberulous towards the base ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, 

 spreading, little curved, interarching near the slightly incurved edges, 

 slightly prominent on the lower surface and somewhat depressed on the 

 upper when dry; length 5-5 to 7*5 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-25 in.; petioles 

 •4 to 'S in., stout, channelled. Male Sbud female Jioivers unknown. Fruit 

 globular-ovoid, blunt, 1-25 to 1'5 in. long and about 1*15 in. in diam., 

 densely rusty-tomentose. Calyx at base flat, 4-angled, -4 in. in diam., 

 rusty-tomentose. 



Perak : King's Collector 3330, 4945, 5409, 6712. 



33. DiosPYROs AREOLATA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 

 feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, very coriaceous ; oblong, sub- 

 acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces glabrous except the puberulous 

 midrib and sometimes the main-nerves, hepatic-brown when dry ; the 

 upper shining, minutely and faintly areolate ; the lower dull and boldly 

 areolar-reticulate ; midrib bold on the lower surface, slightly depressed 

 on the upper ; main-nerves about 7 pairs, curved, ascending abruptly, 

 faint on the lower surface, almost invisible on the upper ; length 4*5 to 

 6 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 1*75 in. ; petioles "5 or -6 in. Male floivers (only 

 buds seen) under "5 in. in length, collected near the ends of the branches in 

 tomentose cymes '5 to 1 in, long. Calyx coriaceous, on a thick pedicel 

 shorter than itself, ovoid in bud ; the mouth with triangular short 

 teeth. Corolla like the calyx, but glabrous and fleshy. Stamens about 

 21 ; anthers linear, apiculate, nearly uniform, sub-sessile or on short 

 broad flat filaments, sometimes slightly attached in groups of 3. Female 

 fjOiver probably solitary, much broader than the <^ . Calyx velvety 

 outside and inside, divided nearly to the base into 4 ovate-triangular 

 very acute lobes "4 in. long. Corolla fleshy, glabrous, "6 in. long, its 



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