226 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



minute reticulations, each lobe 1"25 long and nearly as wide. Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Flora Bombay, 141 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. cxxv, and Fl. Sylv. 

 Madr. cxliv ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 190 ; Clarke in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 570. 



Peeak: King's Collector 7637, 8163. 



The scanty specimens from Perak are in fruit only, but the leaves and fruit agree 

 so well with those of D. paniculata — a species hitherto known only from the west of 

 the Indian Peninsula — that, in spite of the anomalous geographical distribution, we, 

 temporarily at least, refer the Perak specimens to that species. 



28. DiosPTEOS KuNSTiiEEi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 

 40 feet high; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, large, thickly membranous ; elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 

 acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces, when dry, ohvaceous-brown, 

 the lower rather darker than the upper, somewhat shining, faintly 

 reticulate ; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, much curved, spreading, ascend- 

 ing, and forming wide arches '25 in. from the edge, prominent on the 

 lower surface like the midrib, somewhat depressed on the upper ; length 

 8 to 12 in., breadth 3-5 to 4-5 in. ; petioles -25 to -35 in. Male flowers 

 unknown. Female flowers in short axillary and extra- axillary puberu- 

 lous cymes, nearly 1 in. long, pedicellate ; bracts narrow, nearly as long 

 as the pedicels, oblong. Fruit in short stout cymes (unripe) depressed- 

 globular, crowned by the short remains of the style, with 4 or 5 vertical 

 ridges, everywhere densely rusty-tomentose, subtended by the accres- 

 cent almost woody calyx, with 4 deep reniform-cordate apiculate erect 

 undulate lobes. 



Peeak : King's Collector 4343, 7633, 8229. 



29. DiosPYEOS NUTANS, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub or smaU 

 tree 8 to 16 feet high ; young branches less than one-thu-d as thick as a 

 goose-quill, deciduously villous, the older much thicker with deeply 

 channelled dark-coloured, sub-glabrous bark. Leaves alternate, thinly 

 coriaceous ; oblong or sub-oblanceolate-oblong, apex shortly caudate- 

 acuminate, the base rounded ; both surfaces brown when dry, the upper 

 glabrous, the lower puberulous, but often villous on the prominent 

 midrib ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curved, ascending, interarching near 

 the margin, the reticulations distinct ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 

 2-25 in. ; petiole '15 in. Cyvies umbellate, few-flowered, borne on the 

 apices of slender slightly supra-axillary flexuous puberulous peduncles 

 much longer than the leaves (often twice as long) ; bracteoles few, small, 

 lanceolate, concave. Male flowers in different cymes from the females, 

 •5 in. long, on short pedicels less than -1 in, long. Calyx puberulous, 

 campanulate, with 5 long lanceolate lobes. Corolla four times as long 



