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made it a variety, ia having the same goldeu-brown pabescence on the under sur- 

 face of its leaflets. But the smaller size of tliese leaflets ; the shortness of the 

 petiolules ; the great difference in sepals, glabrous within in B. Wallichii, velvety 

 w^ithin in D. plufysepahun ; and the equally marked differences in the fruit and the 

 seed have led the present writer to treat it as a species apart. 



9. DiALiUM KiNGii Prain. A tree with spreading branches 100-150 

 feet high, stem 3-4 ft. in diameter; branchlets brown closely pubescent, 

 sliglitly rugose, not lanticelled. Leaves alternate 8-9 in. long; leaflets 

 13-15, opposite except the terminal one, oblong-lanceolate, apex abruptly 

 cuneate or rounded with an obtuse or retuse tip, base cuneate or round- 

 ed, 2-2*5 in. long, 'Q-S in. wide, very rigidly coriaceous, deep-green 

 glabrous and shining above, ru»ty-pubescent beneath, leaf-rachis glab- 

 rous ; lateral nerves about 10 pairs rather distinct, secondary inter- 

 mediate venation faint; petiolules glabrous '1 in. long. Panicles 

 terminal and axillary, deltoid, 6-8 in. long, 8-10 in. across, branches 

 3-4. in., erecto-patent, densely dark-brown velvety as is the main rachis ; 

 pedicels usually in clusters of 3, '25 in. long. Calyx '25 in. long, ovoid 

 in bud, tube obsolete, segments 5, subequal, much imbricate, broadly 

 ovate-obtuse, reflexed after flower opens ; externally densely brown- 

 velvety, inside Avaxy-white closely pubescent. Petals 0. Stamens 2 

 opposite npper calyx-segnients, filaments very thick and fleshy, one- 

 third as long as the bright-yellow anther; connective uniformly softly 

 pubescent. Ovary densely brown-velvety, sessile, tapering abruptly 

 into the incurved puberulous style ; ovules 2. Pod irregularly spheri- 

 cal, -9 in. long, '75 in. across,- velvety-black. Seed solitary, subquadrate, 

 warra-brown, faintly longitudinally striate, '4 in. long, 5 in. wide, 2 in. 

 thick. 



PyuK ; Groping distiict, in hilly localities from 800-1000 feet, 

 Knustler 4627 ! 8187 ! 



No Malay name has been sent for this tree which is one of the most distinct and 

 is perhaps the finest of the Peninsular species of Didlium. Its nearest ally is 

 evidently D. Wallichii from which however its opposite leaflets, rnsty-pubescenfc 

 beneath, and its larger flowers at once distinguished it. 



47. Badhinia Linn. 

 Unarmed erect trees, or climbers with circinate tendrils. Leaves 

 simple usually more or less deeply cleft from the tip, rarely entire or 

 fully divided into two leaflets. Flowers usually showy sometimes small 

 in copious simple or panicled often coiymbose racemes. Calyx-tuhe 

 with a disc produced to the top, sometimes long and cylindric, some- 

 times short and turbinate or campanulate, limb entire and spathaceous 

 or cleft into 2 or 5 teeth, very rarely campanulate truncate. Petals 

 5 subequal usually with a distinct claw. Stamens 10, or reduced to 5 



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