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covered with black pubescence, few-flowered, collected on extra-axillary 

 or axillary tubercles, sometimes forming small panicles, consisting 

 mostly of 3- flowers, and often with only a few ? , with many 

 oblanceolate blunt bracts "25 to "3 in. long, and some smaller brac- 

 teoles ; branches of the cyme striate when dry. Calyx '15 in. long, 

 divided to its base into 4 broadly ovate undulate lobes. Corolla 

 in bud cylindric, tetragonous at the base ; about '4 in. long, tomen- 

 tose, deeply divided into 4 narrowly elliptic blunt lobes. Stamens 

 about 16 in 2 rows, united into a tube, the anterior row smaller than 

 the posterior, all narrow and apiculate, the filaments short and hairy. 

 Female flowers like the <? as to calyx, but with corolla somewhat longer 

 and with about 12 flat staminodes. Ovary ovoid-conic, tomentose, 

 attenuated into a long style. Stigma with several small lobes ; oyqxj 

 8-celled. i^nw^ when ripe ovoid-globular, 1 to 1*25 in. in diam., glab- 

 rescent, subtended by the accrescent calyx with large reticulate undulate 

 lobes. Seeds compressed, oblong. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 571. -D. frutescens, Hassk. PI. As. Ear. 467 {not of Blume). 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3620. Perak: S cor techini 1765 ; King's 

 Collector 8261. — Distrib. Java. 



Specimens of this sent from Herbarium Koordersianum, Buitenzorg, have pentamerous 

 flowers; but in other respects they do not differ from the Perak specimens in Herb. 

 Calcutta. 



24. DiosPYROs TOPOSioiDES, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 tree 15 to 40 feet high, sometimes only a shrub ; young branches 

 rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. 

 Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, 

 base rounded ; edges slightly recurved when dry ; both surfaces pale 

 olivaceous when dry, minutely but distinctly reticulate, the upper 

 shining, the lower darker and dull ; midrib channelled on the upper 

 surface, strong and prominent on the lower ; main-nerves 16 to 20 pairs, 

 spreading, little-curved, interarching far from the edge, the intermediate 

 nerves nearly as prominent ; length 7 to 11 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; 

 petiole "3 to -4 in. long, stout, wrinkled when dry like the midrib. Male 

 flowers "25 in. long, on pedicels longer than themselves, in cymose 

 axillary panicles about 1 in. in length. Calyx coriaceous, glabrous, 

 campanulate, with wide truncate entire or sub-entire mouth. Corolla 

 slightly exceeding the calyx, ovoid, inflated below, contracted to the 

 4-toothed apex. Stamens numerous, linear, slightly auricled at the base, 

 filaments very short. Female floivers when in bud "3 in. long, conical. 

 Calyx acutely 4-angled in bud ; the 4 lobes deltoid, very coriaceous, 

 puberulous outside, rusty-tomentose inside like the ovary and young 



