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20 to 40 feet high ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill. 

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

 the base slightly cuneate or rounded ; upper surface pale olivaceous 

 when dry, lower pale brown ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, 

 ascending, prominent like the midrib on the lower surface, depressed 

 somewhat on the upper ; length 5"5 to 9 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2*5 in. ; 

 petioles '3 to "5 in. Male floioers about -5 in. long. Calyx -2 in. long, 

 campanulate, divided almost to the base into 5 ovate-acute erect lobes, 

 each folded vertically along the midrib so as to form a deep dorsal 

 groove, everywhere minutely rusty-tomentose. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx, narrowly tubular ; the tube 5-angled, externally divided, the 

 5 lobes twice as long as the tube, linear-oblong, contorted in aestivation, 

 the external half of each lobe tawny-tomentose, the inner half and the 

 whole of the anterior surface glabrous. Stamens 14, linear, apiculate, 

 sub-sessile. Female floioers '4 in. long, collected in compound umbellate 

 axillary cymes 1*5 to 1'75 in. long and about as much across, the 

 branches compressed, rusty-puberulous, spreading, bearing a few oblong 

 obtuse bracts ; flower-pedicels varying in length from -1 to "2 in., 

 bibracteolate. Calyx fleshy, tomentose outside, deeply divided into _ 

 ovate-acuminate erect grooved lobes. Corolla tubular, tomentose 

 outside, glabrous inside, very thick, deeply divided into 4 oblong lobes. 

 Staminodes about 8, lanceolate, flattened. Ovary ovoid, tapering into a 

 short style, tomentose. Fruit depressed-globose, puberulous, "75 to 

 •9 in diam., and about the same from below the calyx to the somewhat 

 concave apex ; calyx woody, thick, 1 in. wide, with triangular deeply 

 grooved sub-acute lobes. 



Penang : Curtis 1453, 1454, 10230. 



27. DiosPYROs PANicuLATA, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. IV. 109 

 (1852). A tree 50 to 70 feet high ; young branches less than half as thick 

 as a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, alternate; 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly apiculate or acuminate ; 

 the base cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, 

 the reticulations minute and distinct, especially on the glabrous upper 

 surface ; main-nerves 5 to 8 pairs, curving upwards and forming arches 

 far from the edge, bold like the midrib on the lower surface and 

 slightly depressed on the upper ; lower surface softly pubescent ; length 

 4 to 7-5 in., breadth 1-65 to 2*5 in.; petiole -25, stout, channelled, 

 pubescent. Male and female flowers not seen. Fruit in lax racemoid 

 cymes, ellipsoid, crowned by the small remains of the style, rufous- 

 hirsute when young, ultimately glabrous, 1*5 in. long and 1 in. in 

 diam. ; the accrescent calyx at its base with 4 large broadly ovate 

 membranous lobes with many vertical nerves and numerous distinct 



