220 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Peeak : King's Collector 7363, 7749. 



19. DiosPTKOS BLLiPSOiDEA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree or 

 shrub ; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, decidu- 

 ously and densely rusty-puberulous. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous ; 

 oblong to elliptic-oblong, rarely slightly oblanceolate, apex acute, base 

 rounded ; both surfaces when dry olivaceous-brown, the upper glabrous, 

 the midrib sometimes rusty-puberulous, the lower surface darker, 

 minutely puberulous ; midrib and 10 to 12 pairs of curved ascending 

 nerves faintly prominent on the lower and depressed on the upper 

 surface ; length 6 to 10 in. ; breadth 2-25 to 3*5 in. ; petioles '25 to 

 •3 in. Male floioers in dense axillary cymes of 6 to 12, not much 

 longer than the petioles ; bracteoles few, broad, densely rusty-tomentose. 

 Calyx sub-sessile, tomentose externally, glabrous internally, divided 

 into 4 sub-rotund blunt lobes. Corolla glabrous, very fleshy towards 

 the apex, with 4 broad deep lobes. Stamens at the base of the tube, 

 broadly ovate, apiculate, filaments flattened. Female flotvers in sub- 

 sessile clusters of 3 or 4, Calyx with 4 rounded lobes, reflexed, 

 coriaceous, and in fruit only '35 in. across. Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, 

 crowned by the short style and subtended by the reflexed broadly-lobed 

 small calyx, 1 to 1*25 in. long and "8 in. in diam. Seeds few, ellipsoid, 

 apiculate, two of the sides compressed. 



Perak: King's Collector 2233, 3250, 7098, 7269, 7320, 7689, 

 8215 ; Scortechini 1615. 



20. DiosPYROs Wallichii, King & Gamble. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

 high ; young branches covered with minute coarse hair, the older 

 verrucose. Leaves alternate, coriaceous'; oblong or elliptic-oblong, apex 

 acute, base euneate or rounded ; edges slightly recurved ; upper 

 surface glabrous and shining, lower paler, minutely pubescent at 

 first but becoming glabrescent, both olivaceous when dry; midrib 

 depressed on the upper surface, bold on the lower ; main-nerves 14 to 

 18 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, prominent on the lower surface, 

 faint on the upper ; length 8 to 14 in., breadth 2-5 to 5 in. ; petiole -5 

 to -75 in. Male cyvies -5 to -75 in. long, in clusters (often crowded) on 

 the branches, 7-10-flowered ; bracteoles broad, blunt, concave, thick 

 like the calyx and corolla, and like them densely rusty-tomentose 

 externally. Calyx -1 to "15 in. long, tubular; the mouth with 4 blunt 

 triangular erect teeth ; tomentose on both surfaces. Corolla thrice as 

 long as the calyx ; narrowly tubular, glabrous inside. Stamens 16, in 

 2 rows, the inner attached to the outer at the bases of their filaments; 

 all linear ; rudimentary ovary small, hairy. Female floiver rather larger 

 than the $ , but in smaller cymes ; the calyx tetragonous and deeply 

 grooved, very fleshy, becoming woody, very large and boldly 4-angled and 



