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the scars of fallen leaves or on the year-old wood below the leaves and 

 shoots of the year ; pedicels vl to '2 in. long, rusty-tomentose. Calyx- 

 lobes 5, imbricate, '15 to -2 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent without, 

 rounded. Corolla tubular-campanulate, "15 in. long, absent in ? 

 flowers ; lobes very short, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens attached to 

 the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, apiculate, opening by side- 

 slits ; staminodes linear-lanceolate. Ovary thickly rusty-pubescent, 

 flattened at top, obscurely 5-lobed, 5-celled ; style cylindric. Berry 

 fleshy, somewhat oblong, rounded, tipped with the persistent style, 

 thickly covered with velvety orange-red tomentum and about -5 in. in 

 diam. Seeds not accurately known. 



Penang : Curtis 1452. Peeak : Wray 136 ; King's Collector 6550. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 994 ; Holmherg 704. Singapore : Biclley 

 6130, 6499 ; Cantley 89. 



Mr. Cantley says that this tree gives the true " Daru-daru " or " Dedaru " wood of 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



2. SiDEEOXYLON Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 536 

 (1882). A tree with rusty-pubescent branchlets and young shoots. 

 Leaves membranous ; crowded towards the ends of the branchlets ; 

 obovate, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; rusty-pubescent 

 when young, glabrous when old or rusty-pubescent on the midrib and 

 main-nerves; 4 to 8 in. long, 1*5 to 3 in. broad; midrib prominent ; main- 

 nerves 8 to 11 pairs, starting at an angle of nearly 60° to the midrib, 

 at first parallel then arching upwards to near the margin ; transverse 

 reticulations more or less parallel; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. long, bordered 

 by the decurrent margins of the blade. Floivers fasciculate, sessile or 

 with very short pedicels, chiefly on the previous year's wood below the 

 leaves and shoots of the year. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate, rounded, 

 rusty-pubescent without, "075 to "1 in. in diam. Corolla tubular- 

 campanulate, as long as or rather shorter than the calyx, wanting 

 in $ flowers ; lobes very short, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens short ; 

 filaments slender ; anthers ovate ; staminodes linear-lanceolate. Ovary 

 thickly rusty-pubescent, flattened at top ; style cylindric. Berry fleshy, 

 1-5 in. in diam., ovoid or globular, full of guttapercha. Seeds 4, 

 compressed, -7 in. long by '3 to '35 in. broad ; rounded outside, nearly 

 straight within, the long narrow oblong hilum covering nearly the whole 

 margin ; testa hard, shining, dark chestnut-brown ; albumen firm, 

 white ; cotyledons plane, appressed, elliptic ; radicle inferior. 



Negbi Sembilan : Bidley 10084. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 993 ; 

 Hervey. Singapore : Bidley 8928, 9223. 



The fruit description is chiefly taken from Maingay's notes in the Kew Herbarium. 



