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A large shrub or tree 20 40 or even 100 feet high, glabrous, or the young parts 

 and inflorescence with short hairs; trunk sometimes 2 feet in diameter. Leaves oblong or 

 oval, alternate, coriaceous, obtuse at apex, more or less narrowed at base, palish green 

 especially beneath, 1| 4in. long by | IJin. wide including petiole Jin. long; mid- 

 rib flattish depressed above ; lateral and net-veins in relief and not conspicuous ; frequently 

 with small black spots arranged in a row on each side of midrib beneath. Flowers dioe- 

 cious, tetramerous (or rarely trimerous ?). 



<y. Flowers several together arranged on short axillary pubescent drooping cymes 

 which without the flowers measure J in. long ; calyx -fa in. high, covered with pale ap- 

 pressed short hispid hairs, shortly lobed, campanulate, with deltoid lobes ; corolla \ in. long, 

 deeply lobed, covered outside with pale short hairs, glabrous inside, ovoid in bud, campa- 

 nulate in open flower; lobes erect or recurved at apex, obtuse; stamens 12 16, usually 

 16, in pairs, glabrous, inserted at base of corolla ; anthers longer than the filaments, lan- 

 ceolate linear, dehiscing by lateral slits near apex ; ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



J . Flowers 1 3 together, J in. long, on very short cymes, campanulate, pubescent ; 

 calyx y\in. high by in. thick, 4-fid; corolla deeply 4 -lobed, lobes obtuse; staminodes 8, in 

 one row, inserted at base of corolla, glabrous, with lateral slits ; ovary ovoid, hairy, 4-celled ; 

 cells often with 2 ovules, without any trace of a dissepiment between them, alternate with 

 the calycine lobes ; style hairy, 2-lobed at apex ; stigma 2-lobed and glabrous. Fruit glo- 

 bular or ovoid, | fin. thick, fuscous and glabrescent when ripe, edible, ultimately 1-celled 

 and 1-seeded ; albumen of seed not ruminated ; fruiting calyx about J in. high, cup-shaped, 

 shortly puberulous or nearly glabrous. Fruit called Grey plums. Slender-growing tree, with 

 elongated trunk and elegant rigid foliage. Wood close, very tough and firm. 



In the forest regions towards the coast through New South Wales and Queensland. 

 Australia, Huyel!; Queensland, Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller; Rockhamptou, 

 Dallachy ! ; Crocodile Creek, Bowman; New South Wales, Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, 

 R. Brown!, F. Mueller!; Berrima and Richmond 'River, C. Moore; Hastings and Mackay 

 Rivers, Beckler!; Illawarra, A. Cunningham!; Sydney, Bynoe !; Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition 

 No. 20, M. Macarthur !; New South Wales, Kiama, W. H. Harvey ! ; Cabramatta River, W. Woolls. 



129. DIOSPYROS MALACAPAI, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 237. n. 75 (1844). 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus, glandulis sparsis ; floribus axillaribus, 1 S-nis, calyce 4-lobo, 

 baccd globosd, 4>-loculari, loculis 2-spermis. 



A small tree having yellow wood, with some black spots ; said to keep off bugs when fresh. 

 Leaves alternate, oval, with some scattered glands especially at the end. Flowers axillary, 1 3 

 together ; calyx 4-lobed ; fruit baccate, globose, 4-celled ; cells 2-ovuled. 



Local name Malacapai (Blanco, Fl. Filipin. p. 302, 1837); Tagatog, Philippine Islands, 

 Blanco. 



130. DIOSPYROS SPINOSA, sp. nov. 



D. spinosa, foliis alternis, ovalibus, apice acuminatis vel obtusiusculis, basi rotundatis vel 

 subcordatis, junioribits subtus pubescentibus ; margine revolutis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus 



