1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 225 



Leaves narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, not 

 oblanceolate, their main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs; petioles 

 •15 to '2 io. long ... ... ... 6. D. pubescens. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... ... 7. D. n. sp. ? 



1. Diplospora Beccariana, King & Gamble n. sp. A glabrous 

 tree 30 to 40 feet high ; young branches compressed, thinner than a 

 goose-quill. Leaves coriaceous, broadly elliptic, shortly and bluntly 

 cuspidate, the base broad, rounded and slightly unequal; both surfaces 

 pale olivaceous-brown when dry, shining (the lower the paler), with 

 wide faint reticulations; main-nerves about 7 pairs, much curved, 

 ascending, thin but distinct on both surfaces; length 6*5 to 7*5 in.; 

 breadth 3'25 to 3*75 in.; petioles *5 in.; stipules triangular, sub-acute, 

 only *15 in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruit ovoid, mammillate at 

 the apex and tapered to the base, smooth, several-seeded; length 

 '85 in., breadth about '2 in. when dry. 



Perak : King's Collector 6408. 



A species badly represented in the Calcutta collections. -It appears to be the 

 same as Beccari's Borneau (Sarawak) plant Nos. 300 and 2062 and we have associated 

 it with the name of that distinguished botanist and explorer. 



2. Diplospora malaccensis, Hook. fil. in Fl. Br. Ind. III. 124. 

 A small tree ; all parts quite glabrous ; young branches rather thicker 

 than a crow-quill, cinereous, glabrous. Leaves narrowly elliptic, shortly 

 abruptly and obtusely acuminate, more or less narrowed at the base; 

 upper surface brown when dry, the lower very pale-olivaceous ; main- 

 nerves 4 or 5 pairs, faintly prominent on the lower surface and 

 slightly depressed on the upper ; length 25 to 4*5 in. ; breadth 1 to 2 

 in. ; petioles *15 to '2 in. ; stipules shorter than the petioles. Flowers 

 •2 in. long, in small clusters in the axils of fallen leaves ; their pedicels 

 short, bracteolate at the base, usually (fide Hook, fil.) unisexual. 

 Calyx shorter than the corolla, tubular-campanulate, the mouth with 

 4 broad, coriaceous, acute teeth. Corolla thin, tubular, cut half-way 

 down into 4 blunt oblong lobes. Anthers 4, narrowly ovate, sessile, 

 half-exserted from the throat. Fruit fusiform, surmounted by the 

 calyx, glabrous. Lachnostoma triflorum, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 

 II. 202; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 257. 



In all the provinces ; common. 



3 Diplospora Wrayi, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub or 

 small tree ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, cinereous, 

 covered like the stipules and petioles with minute deciduous cinereous 

 pubescence ; all other parts save the interior of the corolla-tube 

 glabrous. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, often somewhat* obovate, 

 shortly caudate-acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale 



