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Style longer than the stamens, cylindric, pubescent, not scaly : stigma 

 capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Upper Per.'ik at 300 feet ; Wray. 



The fruit of this is unknown, Mr. Wray describes the petals as 

 pink. The caudate-lanceolate leaves of this are different from those of 

 any other Durio of the Malayan Peninsula. 



6. D. OxLEYANUs, Griff. Notul. iy. 531. A tree, the young branches, 

 petioles and under surfaces of the midrib adpressed-lepidote. Leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, rounded at base and apex ; upper surface glabrous ; the 

 lower softly pubescent, not scaly except on the midrib, the 15 to 18 

 pairs of main nerves stout, sub-horizontal, prominent beneath ; length 

 35 to 5 in., breadth 1*5 to 2 in., petiole '5 in. Flowers about 1 in. in 

 diam., in few-flowered scaly cymes from the smaller branches. Involu- 

 cral bracts 2, broadly ovate, pubescent, sparsely and minutely scaly. Calyx 

 cujj-shaped, the mouth with 4 broad shallow rather blunt teeth, inside 

 glabrous, outside with many lar-ge loose scales. Petals 4, oblanceolate 

 or spathulate, little longer than the calyx, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 not scaly. Stamens 20, shoi'ter than the petals ; 5 free and alternating 

 with 5 phalanges of 3 each which are slightly united by the bases of 

 their filaments : anthers solitary, drum-shaped, the dehiscence circular. 

 Ovary depressed-globular, 4-celled, densely stellate-hairy. Style cylin- 

 dric, pilose ; stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl, 

 Br. Ind. i. 351 and Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 501, t. xvi. fig. 13 to 16. 

 ±5eccari Malesia, III, 252. Neesia Griffithii, Planch. MSS. 



Malacca, Griffith No. 545. Maingay, No. 220, (Kew Distrib.) 

 This differs, as Beccari has well pointed out (Malesia 1. c), from 

 the other species of Durio by the absence of scales from every part of 

 the leaf except the petiole and midrib ; by the single, not glomerulate, 

 anthers ; by the hairy, not squamose, ovary. Should the fruit when 

 found also present differences, it may be desirable to create a new 

 genus for this species. 



9. BoscHiA, Korth. 



Trees. Leaves oblong, entire, scaly beneath. Flowers small, axil- 

 lary. Bracteoles 2-3, connate at the base, deciduous. Calyx deeply 

 4-5 parted. Petals linear-ligulate, entire or laciniate. Stamens many, 

 sc^me free, others irregularly coherent, outermost without anthers ; 

 anthers globose, 1-celled, opening by a terminal pore, solitary, or in 

 groups of 2-6. Ovary 3-5-celled, style elongate ; ovules one or more iu 

 each cell. Fruit oblong, 3 to 5-celled, 3 to 5-valved, muricate. Seeds 

 few, ovoid, half-covered by a fleshy, coloured, cup-shaped arillus ; coty- 

 ledons foliaceous. Species 4 : all Malayan. 



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