Flwa of the Malayan Peninsida. 213 



7 pairs, curved, ascending; length 3-25 to 5 in., breadth 1-35 to 

 2-5 in. ; petioles "1 to "15 in. Male floivers '45 in. long, 2 to 6 

 together, in axillary or extra-axillary bracteate sessile tomentose 

 fascicles. Calyx sub-sessile, campanulate, pubescent outside, glabrous 

 inside ; the limb deeply divided into 5 broadly ovate, bluntly acuminate 

 spreading lobes. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slightly inflated and 

 glabrous in the lower half outside, cylindric and pubescent in the 

 upper half, inside glabrous ; limb with 4 broadly oblong obtuse 

 glabrescent spreading lobes. Stamens 12, of different lengths, 

 attached in 3 rows in the tube ; anthers lanceolate-cordate, apicu- 

 late ; filaments slender and of varying length ; rudimentary ovary 

 none. Female flowers conspicuously bi-bracteate, in cymes like 

 the (? but shortly pedunculate. Calyx as in the ^ but less deeply 

 lobed. Fruit ellipsoid, not much narrowed at the ends, slightly 

 tetragonous, glabrous, "75 in. long and about "35 in. in diam., crowned 

 by the short remains of the style ; the calyx clasping its base, about 

 half as long, with 4 deep triangular lobes. Seeds 4, ridged. Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 562 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI., 

 ii. 236, For. Fl. II. 135. Guatteria ? flavicans, Wall. Cat. 7295. 

 Ehenacea, sp. 2, Griff. Notul. IV. 291. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 454, 3623; Maingay (K.D.) 972 {as to 

 male plant only); Heifer (K.D.) 3639? Penang: Curtis 1602. 

 Selangor : Bidley 10556. Pbeak : 2058 ; Kincfs Collector 2480, 

 3354, 3380, 3774, 6149, 6633, 10007. 



8. DiosPTROS apiculata, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Philos. Soc. XII. 

 186 (1873). A shrub or small tree ; young branches half as thick as 

 a goose-quill, fulvous-hirsute. Leaves alternate, membranous ; oblong 

 or elliptic -oblong, sometimes rather oblanceolate, finely caudate- 

 acuminate, slightly narrowed to the rounded or somewhat cuneate 

 base ; both surfaces dark ohvaceous-brown when dry, transversely 

 reticulate; upper sui-face sparsely adpressed-pubescent, the midrib 

 and main-nerves pubescent and sHghtly depressed ; lower surface 

 darker, and with many long rather coarse hairs, especially on the 

 prominent midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of slightly curved ascending 

 main-nerves ; length 5'5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 2-5 in. ; petiole 

 •1 in., tomentose. Male floiuers about 3 together, axillary, sub-sessile, 

 •35 in. long. Calyx 4- to 5-partite, about -25 in. long, pubescent, lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate. Corolla tubular, 4-lobed, -4 in. long, the lobes 

 spreading, oval, obtuse. Stamens 6 to 12, unequal, glabrous ; anthers 

 hnear-oblong, acuminate ; filaments often geniculate, dilated and some- 

 what united at the base, rudimentary ovary small, hairy. Female 

 flotuers 1 to 3 together on short axillary, minutely hispid cymes. 



