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tube wide with staminodes like the anthers of the <? but not so 

 numerous ; Hmb about as long as the tube, with 4 deep, broad, sub- 

 quadrate spreading lobes. Ovary ovoid-conic, densely rusty-pilose. 

 Stigmas 4, oblong, fleshy, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 

 Peeak : Scortechini 476 ; King's Collector 5813. 



34. DiosPYEOS CuETisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; young 

 branches rather thicker than a goose-quill, rugulose and dark-coloured 

 when dry, glabrous. Leaves alternate, thinly membranous ; oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, base rounded or slightly 

 cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper olivaceous when dry, the 

 lower brown ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, faint 

 on both surfaces; the midrib prominent on the lower surface, slightly so 

 on the upper ; length 2-5 to 5 in., breadth 1-25 to 2 in. ; petioles '2 in. 

 Male floivers not seen. Female flowers -25 in. long, in extra-axillary or 

 axillary fascicles of about 3 on the younger branches ; pedicels about 

 •2 in. long, cinerous-pubescent, each with 2 oblong obtuse bracteoles at 

 its base, about -5 in. long. Calyx coriaceous, nearly '2 in. broad at the 

 base, deeply divided into 4 triangular-reniform glabrescent lobes. 

 Corolla partially glabrous, about as long as the calyx, salver-shaped; 

 tube short; limb divided into 4 deep, broadly ovate, spreading lobes. 

 Staminodes about 4, linear-lanceolate, compressed. Ovary narrowly 

 oblong, tapering into the short thick style, densely tawny-tomentose. 

 Fruit unknown. 



PuLAu PooNGAH : Curtis 2942. 



35. DiosPYROS GLOMERULATA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 40 to 

 60 feet high ; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, densely 

 clothed with minute rufous pubescence. Leaves membranous, alternate; 

 elliptic, shortly and bluntly apiculate, the base rounded or slightly 

 cuneate ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, glabrous ; the lower 

 bi"own, puberulous, midrib bold ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, slightly 

 curved, ascending ; length 2-25 to 3'5 in., breadth 1*25 to 1"75 in. ; 

 petiole about -1 in. Male floivers -2 in. long, crowded in dense sessile 

 axillary and extra-axillary globular capitules "4 in. across. Calyx sessile, 

 campanulate, tomentose, deeply divided into 4 broadly triangular sub- 

 acute erect lobes. Corolla tubular, tetragonous, thick, about as long as 

 the calyx; tube glabrous, the 4 lobes pubescent outside, oblong. 

 Stamens 8, separate. Anthers broadly lanceolate, apiculate, filaments 

 short. Female floivers and fruit not known. 



Peeak : Kings Collector 8590. 



The following description of a Diospyros from Pahang is taken from 

 Eidley's account of the Flora of the Eastern Coast of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



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