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Ovary silky, ovate, subsessile, style slender incui-ved, ovules 2. Fod 

 almost orbicular, I in. across not apiculate, black, thinly coated Avitli 

 short grey-pubescence, the thin epicarp extremely fragile. Seed solit- 

 ary, almost exactly orbicular, '5 in. across, "2 in. thick, reddish-brown, 

 shining and smooth with fine rather wide-meshed reticulations on the 

 surface. Ridley, Trans Linn. Soc. n. s. HE, 294. 



Malacca; Ayer Panas, etc.; Maingay 539 (K.D.)! GooJenotigh 

 1321 ! Singapore ; Krangi, Ridley 6437 ! Pahang ; Pigaug, near 

 Pekan, Ridley. 



A very distinct species, easily recognised by its almost orbicular seed. Mr. 

 Goodenough notes that this is known in Malacca as Krangi papan ; he however 

 quotes the same name as applied to a form of D. platysepalum. There are no 

 Parang specimens at Calcutta; the locality is cited from Mr. Ridley's paper ou the 

 Pahang flora. 



5. DiALiUM Maingati Bak. in Flor. Brit. Tnd. II, 269. A large 

 tree with spreading branches ; branchlets slender lenticelled dark- 

 brown, glabrous. Leaves alternate odd-pinnate, 4-5 in. long ; leaflets 

 9, rarely 7, subopposite elliptic-oblong narrowed cuspidately to an 

 obtuse or subacute entire apex, base rounded, 2-2o in. long, -75-1 in. 

 wide, coriaceous, very dark-green shining above, dull and paler green 

 beneath, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 4-5 pairs not visible 

 above, faint and not raised beneath, scarcely more conspicuous than 

 the very faint intermediate reticulate secondary venation ; petiolules 

 slender '2 in. long, glabrous. Panicles terminal, 4-5 in. long, 3 in. 

 wide, branches 2 in. long, erecto-pafent rusty-puberulous ; pedicels 15 

 in. long, 2-3 together, rusty-puberulous. Calyx '25 in. long, ovoid in 

 bud, tube very short campanulate, segments 5, or occasionally only 4, 

 much imbricate, broadly ovate-obtuse, shortly brown-velvety silky on 

 both surfaces. Petals 0. Stamens 2 opposite the two upper calyx-seg- 

 ments, filaments thick nearly as long as the anther, the connective beset 

 with short brown hairs. Ovary black-velvety, ovate, shortly stipitate, 

 style incurved glabrous ; ovules 2. Pod widely obovoid, apex not 

 apiculate, firm, '9 in. long, 8 in. wide, hardly at all compressed, densely 

 persistently deep-olive velvety. Seed solitary, obovate-quadrate, finely 

 longitudinally striate, shining, '45 in. long, 35 in. wide, "15 in, thick. 



Perak; Groping, Scortichini 2052! Upper Perak, 1000 feet, Wray 

 3407 ! 3767 ! Penang ; Tulloh Bahang, Curtis 440 ! 3031 ! Malacca ; 

 Selandan, Goodenough 1533 ! Singapore ; Maingay 538 K. D. (Herb. 

 Propr. 1398 A.)! 



The seeds of this species are hardly distinguishable except in colour from 

 those of D. indum, the frnits and the foliage are however extremely different. 

 Curtis gives Krangi as the native name of this species in Penang ; in Malacca the 

 tree ia said by Goodenough to bear the alternative names Krin'ji amhot and Kravji 



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