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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. D. annulata. 



2. D. pnnctulafa. 



3. D. hirsnta. 



4. D. hractentn. 



5. D. pallidn. 



6. D. qracilis. 



calyx, 4-celled, apex glabrous or densely hairy; style filiform ; ovules 

 very many, placentas axile. Berry ovoid or elliptic, crowned by the 

 calyx-limb. Seeds elipsoid, flattened on the side of the raphe.— Distuib. 

 Species 25 ; throughout Malaya to the Philippines. 



Stamens 8 (four of them sometimes imperfect) :~ 



Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered with persistent stellate-tomentum : — 

 ■• The stellate-tomentum not mixed with bristles ; 



the nodes with transverse interpetioler lines :— 

 Flowers r75 in. long 

 Flowers '75 in. long 



The stellate-tomentum mixed with spreading 



persistent bristles; flowers '75 in. long 

 Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered at first with stellate-tomentum which ulti- 

 mately moi-e or less disappears : — 



Bracts of panicle obovate, persistent ... 



Bracts of panicle linear, deciduous 

 Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered with minute simple scales not stellate 

 Stamens 4 : — 



Panicles ebracteate, or bracts, if any, caducous : — 



Flowers '3 in. long ; fruit '15 to '2 in. in diam. ; 



mouth of calyx-tube 4-toothed ; petals broadly 



oblong, blunt; stamens blunt, not appendiculate 



at the apex 



Flowers '5 in. long; fruit '2 to '25 in. in diam. ; 



mouth of calyx-tube truncate not toothed : 



petals ovate, acute ; stamens narrowed to the 



appendiculate apex 

 Panicles with persistent, oblong bracts : — 



Young branches at first rusty stellate-hairy, 



finally glabrous; branches of panicle divari- 

 cating, lax 



Young branches with persistent, pale, adpressed, 



stellate hairs; branches of panicle short, 



condensed 



1. DissocniETA ANNULATA, Hook. fil. ex Triana 

 Soc. XXVIII, 83. A strong climber ; young branches, petioles, undei- 

 surfaces of leaves and inflorescence covered with dense, rusty, deciduous 

 stellate tomentura, the nodes thickened and slightly annulate. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, the apices shortly and 

 rather abruptly acuminate, upper surface at first sparsely stellate-hairy, 

 ultimately glabrous, the nerves and reticulations bold ; length 25 to 

 3-5 in. • breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petiole '2 to "5 in. Panicle solitary ter- 

 minal much longer than the leaves, lax, the branches divaricating, 



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7. D. celehica. 



8. D. intermedia. 



9. B. anomala. 



10. D. Scortechinii. 

 in Trans. Linn. 



