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Dioecious. Shoots ferruginous-pubescent, terete. Leaves oblong, alternate, obtusely nar- 

 rowed or nearly rounded at base, acutely acuminate at apex, thinly coriaceous, glabrous and 

 rather shining above except the depressed midrib, nearly glabrous beneath except the 

 midrib and weak slender lateral veins, 6 8 in. long (besides hairy petiole -^ | in. long) 

 by 1| 2| in. wide; margins just recurved; lower surface somewhat red; not pellucid- 

 punctate ; a few dark depressed glands usually exist on the lower surface, especially near 

 the base and in the fruiting specimens. 



S . Cymes axillary, many-flowered, sericeous-ferruginous, ^ ^ in. long (excluding the 

 flowers ; pedicels about -^ in. long ; bracts small. Flowers sericeous, about -| in. long in bud, 

 crowded. Calyx nearly J in. long, campanulate, 4 5-fid ; lobes deltoid or oval, hairy on 

 both sides ; corolla shortly 4-fid, tubular ; lobes obtuse, much imbricated in bud, oval, in. 

 long; glabrous inside, spreading; tube constricted at the top. Stamens 8, glabrous, inserted 

 on the receptacle, unequal, combined more or less by their filaments at base ; anthers linear, 

 acute (when young), longer than their filaments. Ovary 0. Rarely a flower is trimerous. 



9 . Cymes axillary, about ^ in. long, sericeous-ferruginous, bearing 3 many flowers ; bracts 

 caducous ; pedicels in. long. Calyx plicate, f in. high, longer than the corolla. Flowers 

 4 5-merous. Fruit subsolitary, on peduncles ^ \ in. long, enclosed when young by accres- 

 cent deeply 4-lobed calyx ; fruit globose, ferruginous-hairy, about ^ in. in diameter (perhaps 

 not mature), 8-celled, (8-ovuled), 8-seeded. Pericarp rather thick ; dissepiments thin. Fruiting 

 calyx fin. high, deeply 4-lobed, hairy on both sides; ample at the sinuses; lobes widely 

 ovate with margins wavy, wide at base. 



Borneo, Korthalsf 



Plate VII. A branch in male flower, natural size. a. Calyx laid open and stamens, the 

 corolla having been removed, magnified 3 diameters, b. A. branch in young fruit, natural 

 size. 



65. DIOSPYROS KIRKII, sp. nov. 



D. foliis ovalibus, alternis, utrinque rotundatis, coriaceis, velutinis, petiolatis ; floribus 

 masculis axillaribus, breviter cymosis, 4- rarius 5-meris, calyce campanulato, scepius 4t-fido, 

 corolla tubulosd, breviter 4<-lobd, staminibus 9 10, glabris, incequalibus ; floribus femineis soli- 

 tariis, breviter pedunculatis, staminodiis 8, ovario globoso, 4i-loculari, fulvo-tomentoso, loculis 

 1-ovulatis ; fructibus edulibus. 



A. fruit-tree with young shoots ferruginous-tomentose-puberulous ; branches cinereous 

 glabrescent, terete. Leaves elliptical or oval-oblong, alternate, coriaceous, rounded at both 

 ends ; velutinous-puberulous, sub-nitescent above with delicate slightly raised veins ; velutin- 

 ous-pubescent fulvous beneath with raised rufous midrib and lateral veins; 1J 4 in. long 

 by | 2 in. wide ; petioles hairy ^ | in. long. 



ff. Inflorescence axillary, in several-flowered cymes, rufous-tomentose, raised on pe- 

 duncles about in. long, with short pedicels, bracteate ; flowers -^ in. long, tetramerous or 

 rarely pentamerous ; calyx ^ in. high ferruginous-velutinous outside, appressedly hairy inside, 

 4-fid, campanulate, rarely with 5 unequal lobes ; corolla inflated-tubular, with 4 short ovate 

 patent lobes, glabrous inside ; stamens 9, 10, glabrous, inserted at base of corolla or on recep- 

 tacle, unequal, on short filaments; ovary 0. 



