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smooth pyramidal spines, 5-valved. Seeds few, large, with copious sne- 

 culent arillas. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. i. 351, and Journ. Linii. 

 Soc. xiv. 501 ; Beccari Malesia, iii. 230, t. xii. f. 1 to 5, xxxvi. f. 1 to 12 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 131 ; DC. Prod. i. 480 ; Bl. Bijdr. 81 ; Koen. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 266, t. 14—16; Roxb. Fl. Ind iii. 399. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 167. Griff. Not. iv. 528 ; Ic. t. 596. Wall. Cat. 1842. 

 — Rumph. Amb. i. 99, t. 29. 



In all the provinces except probably the Nicobars, cultivated. 

 Distrib. Malayan Archipelago. 



2. D. LowiANUS, Scortechini MSS. A tree 50 to 60 feet high ; 

 young branchlets and petioles and lower surface of midrib with rather 

 large loose scales. Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate ; 

 the base rounded, not attenuate; upper surface glabrous, the midrib 

 puberulous, lower quite covered with adpressed scales, mostly minute, 

 but a few larger and loose ; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, faint, sub-horizon- 

 tal ; length 4-5 to 5'5 in., breadth I'S to 2 in.; petiole "6 in. stout. 

 Cymes crowded on small tubercles on branches several years old, tricho- 

 tomous, 3 in. in diam. and about as long. Flower-pedicels '5 to "75 in. 

 long, angled, covered with loose coppery scales. Flowers 2 in. in diam. ; 

 bracts 2 or 3, "5 in. long, broadly ovate, connate, deciduous. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, its base sub-inflated, '75 in. long, its mouth with 3 broad 

 blunt, shallow teeth, glabrous inside, covered with large silvery scales 

 outside. Petals 5, oblanceolate, glabrous inside, pubescent outside, 

 1-25 in. long. Stamens in 5 phalanges, dividing shortly above the base 

 into about 8 processes each dividing at its apex into several short fila- 

 ments, each bearing a single reniform anther with marginal dehiscence. 

 Ovary broadly ovoid, densely covered with large loose scales, 5-celled 

 with 4 ovules in each, biseriate. Style cylindric, tapering, pubescent : 

 stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Perak. Scortechini No. 1969. 



A species collected only once and named by the late lamented 

 Father Scortechini in honour of Sir Hugh Low, repi-esentative of the 

 British Government at Perak, and to whose enlightened help Malayan 

 Botany owes very much. The species approaches B. Zibethinus in many 

 respects. 



3. D. MALACCENSis, Planch. MSS. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 351. A tree ; the young branches thin, very minutely adpressed- 

 scaly. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate witli acute apices ; the base acute, some- 

 times slightly rounded ; main nerves about 20 pairs, thin, almost 

 horizontal ; both surfaces shining, the upper glabrous, the lower very 



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