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36. DiosPYEOS CALiGiNOSA, Eidley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 

 318 (1893). A graceful lofty tree ; bark black ; branches pubescent. 

 Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, acute ; 8 in. long, 3 in. broad ; main- 

 nerves 13 pairs ; glabrous above, minutely pubescent beneath on the 

 midrib and nerves ; petiole '25 in. long, minutely pubescent. Flotvers 

 on old wood, fascicled ; peduncles short, covered with a black pubescence. 

 Calyx of (? flower patelliform ; sepals 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, covered 

 without and on the margin with black hair. Corolla urceolate, white, 

 silky, -5 in. long ; lobes 4, short, ovate, recurved. Stamens 16, 

 collected in pairs ; filaments thick, minutely hispid ; anthers glabrous, 

 long-conical with acute tips. Ovary abortive, 4-lobed, irregular, the 

 lobes furrowed ; style conical. Flowers of ? not seen. Fruit small, 

 globose, surrounded by the accrescent sepals. 



Pahang : in thick woods at Kota Glanggi and Kwala Tembeling, 

 Bidley. 



We are unable, having seen no specimen, to make quite sure of the place of this 

 species. It seems to come very near to No. 17 TJ. trlsti>!, King & Gamble. 



Order LXXIII. STYEACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple ; stipules none. Floioers 

 in simple or branched axillary or terminal racemes or spikes, sometimes 

 solitary ; usually white, rarely red ; bracts small, often minute or obso- 

 lete. Calyx gamosepalous, the tube more or less adnate to the ovary, 

 so that it may be superior or inferior ; limb 4-5-toothed or truncate, 

 persistent. Corolla of 4 to 5 petals, the tube usually short, sometimes 

 none ; petals imbricate or sometimes valvate or contorted. Stamens 

 adnate to the petals, equal in number to them or double or very many ; 

 1-many-seriate ; filaments free or connate ; anthers round or linear, 

 dehiscing laterally. Ovary inferior or superior, 2-5-celled or some- 

 times, by the separation of the septa, 1-celled ; style filiform, sometimes 

 thick ; stigma capitate, entire or lobed ; ovules 1 or more, on the inner 

 angle of each cell, pendulous or erect. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, 

 1-, rarely 2-3-seeded. Seeds albuminous, testa thin or coriaceous, hilum 

 generally broad ; embryo straight or curved, cotyledons terete or flat- 

 tened; radicle cylindrical or short. — Distrib. Warmer regions of Asia, 

 Australia, and America, absent from Africa; genera 7 or 8, species 

 about 350. 



Stamens many, in several series . . . . . . . . 1. Symplocos. 



Stamens 10, in one series . . . . . . . . 2. Styeax. 



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