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the axes, pedicels, bracteoles and bracts densely covered with large 

 loose scales : bracts enveloping the bnds 2, broadly ovate, blunt. Sepals 

 5, valvate, wide and saccate at the base, the apices narrowed, glabrous 

 inside, densely covered outside with loose large scales. Petals narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, more than twice as long as the sepals. Stamens as in 

 D. Malaccensis. Ovary oblong, densely covered with loose, flat, sessile 

 scales. Style shorter than the stamens, pubescent, sparsely scal3\ 

 Stigma capitate. Fruit (accoi'ding to Beccari) on long peduncles, 

 globose, 4 in. in diam., with 4 or 5 slight superficial grooves, densely 

 covered with short broad pyramidal spines. Seeds sub-ovate, obtuse, 

 angled ; the arillus shoi^t, thin, cup-shaped. 



Perak ; at low elevations, Kunstler, Wray. Distrib. Borneo. 



Var. 1. Pinangiana, Becc. 1. c. 246. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 2"5 to 3 5 in. long by "6 to "9 in. broad. Flowers smaller than 

 in the typical form : fruit unknown. 



Penang, at 2,500 feet; Curtis No. 293. This variety, of which only 

 imperfect specimens have as yet been obtained, will probably, when full 

 material shall be forthcoming, prove to be a distinct species. 



Var. 2. macrophylla, King. Leaves 10 to 17 in. long, 2'5 to 5"5 in. 

 broad, the edge sometimes with a single shallow indentation. Racemes 

 3 in. long, many-flowered, with numerous bracteoles. 



Perak ; Kunstler 7497, Wray 3897. No fruit of this variety has 

 as yet been collected. Like the last, it may prove to be a distinct 

 species. 



5. D. Wrayii, King, n. sp. A large tree ; young branches very 

 slender and, like the petioles and under surface of midrib, covered with 

 rather large adpressed pale brown scales. Leaves narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong with caudate acuminate apex and rounded base ; upper surface 

 quite glabrous, lower closely covered with thin adpressed silvery scales 

 smaller than these on the midrib ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, sub- 

 horizontal, faint: length 5"5 to 8'5 in., breadth 2 to 2"6 in., petiole '75 

 in. Floivers nearly 2 in. long, fi-om the branches ; pedicels of individual 

 flowers rather more than 1 in. long, with many large loose scales. 

 Bracts 3, broadly ovate, connate. Cah/x cup-shaped, the mouth with 

 5 broad, rather deep, sub-acute teeth ; inside glabrous, outside covered 

 with large adpressed silvery scales as ai'e also the bracts. Petals 

 1'5 in. long, oblanceolate, or spathulate-clawed, the claw very narrow, 

 pubescent on both surfaces but especially on the outer. Stamens in 

 5 phalanges united at the bases only, each phalange dividing into 5 or G 

 processes at the apices of which are born about 8 narrow reniform 

 anthers dehiscing by their edges. Ovary broadly ovoid, loosely scaly. 



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