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with 4 ovate-acute reflexed lobes. Anthers' oblong, apicnlate, partially 

 exserted. Style with. 2 thick hairy arms. Fruit clavate, slightly 

 mammillate at the apex and much narrowed at the base when ripe, 

 '5 to *75 in. long and '2 to "25 in. in diam. at the middle ; pericarp 

 leathery, endocarp woody. 



Penakg : 8301 (in part) ; Gurtis 762, 3386; King's Collector 1332. 

 Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2829; Maingay (K.D.) 911; Eohnberg 774; 

 Berry 1116. Singapore : Ridley 8427. Peeak : Wray 500, 2315, 2487, 

 3386; Ridley 7183; Zi'^'s Collector 1332, 2594, 3156 ; Scorteehini 141, 

 1411. 



The fruits of this species are often attacked by an insect and become 'o to l - 75 

 in length and "4 in. in diam. These galled-frnits are fusiform in shape and have 

 6 or 7 sharp vertical ridges and their apices are crowned by the slender much 

 elongated calyx-tubes. They are moreover borne on peduncles nearly as long as 

 themselves. 



28. DlPLOSPOEA, DC. 



Shrubs or trees with shortly petiolate coriaceous leaves and 

 triangular acuminate stipules, Floicers small, in axillary fascicles or 

 small cymes, polygamo-dioecious, greenish or white ; bracts free or 

 connate in a cup. Calyx with short tube and truncate 4- or 5-tootlied 

 or -lobed limb. Corolla cylindric-campanulate or salver- shaj^ed ; the 

 limb with 4 or 5 spreading lobes twisted in bud. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 inserted by long or short filaments on the throat of the corolla ; anthers 

 oblong or linear, exserted, sub-basifixed, often recurved. Ovary 2-, rarely 

 3-celled. Style long or short, its branches linear or oblong ; ovules 

 2 or 3 in each cell ; placentas on the septum. Berry ovoid or globose ; 

 seeds few in each cell, imbricate ; embryo small. — Disteib. Species 

 about 16 ; tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 



All parts quite glabrous : — 



Leaves broadly elliptic, 6 or 7 in. long j- fruit ovoid, 



"85 in. long ... ... ... ... 1, D. Beccariana. 



Leaves narrowly elliptic, 2' 25 to 4*5 in. long ; fruit 



fusiform ... ... ... ... 2. D. malaccense. 



Nerves and midrib of leaves pubescent or puberulous on 

 the lower surface : — 



Leaves 6 to 11 in. long: — 



Leaves shortly caudate-acuminate, main-nerves 7 



or 8 pairs ; young branches deciduonsly pubescent 3. D. Wrayi, 



Leaves with long narrow apical tail ; main-nerves 



10 to 12 pairs ; young branches cinereous-tomen- 



tose ... ... ... ... 4. D. velutina. 



Leaves usually under 6 in. in length : — 



Leaves oblanceolate, their main-nerves 8 to 10 



pairs; petioles '35 to '4 in. long ... ... 5. D. Kunstleri. 



