210 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, faint on both surfaces ; length 

 1-5 to 2-25 in., breadth -6 to -8 in.; petiole about 4 in. Male flower 

 •6 in. long, solitary, axillary on a short tomentose pedicel with 2 broad 

 bracteoles. Calyx less than -1 in. long, pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside, deeply divided into 4 broad obtuse almost quadrate imbricate 

 lobes. Corolla salver-shaped ; the tube cylindric, tapering to the apex, 

 tomentose outside ; limb as long as the tube but less hairy outside, 

 glabrous inside like the tube, deeply divided into 4 oblong sub-acute 

 lobes with inflexed edges, twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 8, 

 attached near the bottom of the tube, 4 shorter than the others ; 

 anthers all lanceolate, and on short filaments. Female floiuer not 

 known. Fruit ellipsoid, sparsely adpressed-puberulous, crowned by 

 the conic style, -8 or -9 in. long and -4 in. in diam. Calyx at its base 

 •25 in. across, flat, with 4 spreading, broad, blunt lobes. 



Peeak : Wray 4055 ; King's Collector 7302. — Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Forbes 2004. 



3. DiosPYROS MiCROPHYLLA, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 27, t. cxxxiii. 

 (1874), and El. Sylv. Madr. cxlv. A tree 20 to 30 feet high ; young 

 branches as thick as a crow-quill or thinner, densely pubescent. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, alternate, distichous ; ovate-lanceolate, sub-rhomboid, 

 the apex sub-acute, the base cuneate; upper surface dark olivaceous- 

 brown, glabrous except the pubescent depressed midrib ; the lower dark 

 brown, puberulous, the midrib pubescent; main-nerves obsolete on both 

 surfaces ; length 1 to 1*4 in., breadth -45 to "65 in. ; petiole '05 ; the 

 largest leaves towards the ends of the branches. Male flowers solitary 

 or 3 together in a minute cyme. Calyx -05 long, deeply 4-lobed, tube 

 glabrate. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx with 4 rounded lobes. 

 Stamens about 16. Female flowers "2 in. long, axillary, solitary, pedicel- 

 late or in a pair on a short peduncle. Calyx campanulate, deeply 

 divided into 4 sub-rotund imbricate very obtuse lobes, sericeous on the 

 middle outside and on the edges, otherwise glabrous. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, somewhat longer than the calyx, deeply cut into 4 unequal 

 rotund lobes, adpressed-puberulous on the back of the lobes, otherwise 

 glabrous. Ovary ovoid, sericeous near the apex and base ; style thick, 

 2-fid ; stigmas 4. Ovary 4-celled, ellipsoid, conic, 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 

 Fruit cylindric or oblong-conical, dry, glabrous, 1-celled, 1- rarely 

 2-seeded, -75 to 1 in. long. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 559. 

 D. buxifolia, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 218. D. vaccini- 

 oides, Wall. Cat. 4130 {in imrt). Leucoxylum buxifolium, Blume Bijdr. 

 1169 ; Miq. M. Ind. Bat. II. 1050 ; Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 43 t. 2. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3643 ; Walker 170 ; Maingay (K.D.) 966. 

 Singapore : Bidley 6045. Penang : Cttrtis 1513, 7175. Peeak : 



