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grooved in the ripe fruit. Corolla as in the <? , but somewhat longer. 

 Staminodes about 16. Ovary conical densely hairy ; stigma glabrous, 

 with 4 deep oblong truncate lobes. Fruit 1 in. in diam., nearly twice 

 as much across the calyx, sub-globose, deeply immersed in the large 

 thickened calyx, its apex truncate-concave ; seeds 4 or 5. D. jnacro- 

 phylla, Wall. Cat. 4141 {not of Blume). D. undulata, Wall. A. DC. 

 Prod. VIII. 233; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 216 {in part) ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 23, and For. PL II. 135 {in 

 vart) ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 568. 



Penang: Curtis 1085; Bidley 7174. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.), 

 974; arifp,th (K.D.) 3636. Perak: Scortechini 1976; Wray 2535, 

 2865. King's Collector 2966, 2982, 4058, 6779, 7459, 7619, 10123. 

 Kedak : Curtis 2594. Selangor : Bidley 2748, 8544. 



This is the plant issued by Wallich as No. 4141 of his Catalogue under the name 

 D. macrophijlla. Being different from the older D. macropliylla of Blume, a new 

 name had to be found for it. This was done by De CandoUe, who reduced it, as a 

 ■variety, to Wallich's D. undulata with the type specimen of which in Wallich's own 

 herbarium it does not agree. De CandoUe was followed by Hiern, Kurz, and 

 Clarke ; we now restore it to specific rank. The true D. undulata, Wall., is a Burmese 

 species. It is found also in the Andaman Islands, but it has not as yet been collected 

 in Malaya. 



21. DiosPYROs ARGENTEA, Griff. Notul. IV. 288 (1854). A tree 15 to 

 50 feet high ; young branches about as thick as a goose-quill, covered with 

 sub-deciduous yellowish silky hairs. Leaves large, coriaceous ; oblong, 

 apex acute, base rather abruptly cuneate or rounded; upper surface 

 warm brown when dry, glabrous and shining, the midrib depressed ; 

 lower densely covered with yellowish adpressed sericeous hair, the 

 midrib very stout ; main-nerves invisible on both surfaces ; length 6 to 

 10 in. ; breadth 1-65 to 3-5 in. ; petioles -1 to "25 in. Male flou-ers in 

 somewhat supra-axillary few-flowered shortly pedunculate spike-like 

 cymes 1 to 1-25 in. long (peduncle included) ; bracts ovate -2 in. long. 

 Calyx -25 in. long, deeply 4-lobed, villous. Corolla '35 in. long, 

 tubular, lobed half-way down, very villous outside. Stamens 20 to 24. 

 Female floioer solitsbTY on a peduncle "2 in. long; calyx campanulate, 

 •5 in. long, with ovate lobes. Corolla "65 in. long. Staminodes 4 to 5. 

 Ovary 4-celled, 8-ovuled, densely hairy ; styles 4, erect, hairy. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, apiculate, 2 to 2-5 in. long and 1 to 2 in. in diam., densely rusty- 

 tomentose ; the calyx persistent, its lobes enlarged, broad, very coria- 

 ceous, shortly hahy. Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 262 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 569. D. discolor, WaU. Cat. 4131 

 (not of Willd.). 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) S62o ; Maingay (K.D.) 968, 970; Goodenough 



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