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minutely adpressed-scaly ; length 5 to 65 in., breadth TS to 1"8 in. ; 

 petiole "5 in., scaly like the branches. Peduncles '5 to 1 in. long, in 

 fascicles from tubercles on the stem, angled, bifurcating at the apex 

 and bearing two pedicellate flowers, sometimes bearing one or two 

 pedicels below the apex : pedicels two or three times as long as the 

 common peduncles, angled, loosely scaly. Floivers 25 to 3 in. long. 

 Bracts 2, broadly ovate, acute, embracing the buds. Sepals 5, ovate- 

 oblong, blunt, valvate, 1"25 in. long, glabrous internally but with numer- 

 ous very loose scales externally. Petals nearly twice as long as the sepals, 

 nariowly oblong, pubescent on both surfaces, the outer with a few loose 

 scales. Anthers narrowly oblong, 1-celled, sessile in groups on the 

 apices of groups of combined filaments which are again united into 5 

 phalanges which, for more than half their length, form a tube round the 

 ovary and style. Ovary oblong, angled, densely covered with scales 

 with long cylindric stalks and flat heads. Style shorter than the stami- 

 nal tube, pubescent, slightly scaly. Stigma capitate. Totmg fruit 

 globular, densely covered with subulate pubescent spines. Pipe fruit 

 unknown. Mast, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 501, t. xiv. fig. 17 to 20: 

 Beccari Malesia, iii. 237, t. xii. fig. 6 to 8. 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay (No. 212, Kew Distrib.) Distrib. 

 Burmah. 



This is known only from Malacca and Burmah. It is distinguished 

 from D. PeraJcensis, which in other respects it much resembles, by the 

 stalked scales on the ovary, and by the larger and looser scales on the 

 leaves. Doubtless when ripe fruit of both is found, better characters 

 will be yielded by it. Beccari's specimen No. 852, and the .same distin- 

 guished botanist's Nos. 2190 and 2590 from Borneo, have been referred 

 by Masters (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) to this species. But Beccari (in 

 Malesia iii. 238, 244.) founded his species D. afjfinis on the former, and 

 his D. testitudinarwn on the two latter. 



4. D. TESTiTUDiNARUM, Becc. Malesia, iii. p. 244, t. xiii and xiv. 

 A tall tree bearing flowers only near the base of the trunk ; young 

 bi'anches rather slender, minutely sub-adpressed scaly. Leaves narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-obloug, acute or shortly acuminate, the 

 margins (in var. 2) sometimes with a single wide shallow indentation, 

 the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, the lower densely covered 

 with sub-adpi-essed scales : main nerves 18 to 22 pairs, rather bold, 

 subhorizontal : length 46 to 85 in. (only 25 to 3 5 in. in var, 1 and 

 much longer and broader in var. 2) ; breadth 1'4 to 22 in. ; petiole 

 6 to "25 in , thickened at apex. Floivers 3 to 35 in. long, in short con- 

 densed bracteolate racemes from tubercles near the base of the trunk; 



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