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3. D. hirsuta. 



4. D. bracteata. 



5. D, 'pallida, 



6. D. gracilis. 



calyx, 4-celled, apex glabrous or densely hairy ; style filiform ; ovules 

 very many, placentas axile. Berry ovoid or elliptic, crowned by the 

 calyx-limb. Seeds elipsoid, flattened on the side of the raphe. — Distrib. 

 Species 25 ; throughout Malaya to the Philippines. 



Stamens 8 (four of them sometimes imperfect) : — 



Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered with persistent stellate-tomentum : — 



The stellate-tomentum not mixed with bristles ; 

 the nodes with transverse interpetioler lines :— 



Flowers 1*75 in, long ... ... ... 1. D. annulata. 



Flowers "75 in. long ... ... ... 2. D, punctulaia. 



The stellate-tomentum mixed with spreading 

 persistent bristles; flowers '75 in. long 

 Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered at first with stellate-tomentum which ulti- 

 mately more or less disappears : — 



Bracts of panicle obovate, persistent ... 



Bracts of panicle linear, deciduous ... .,. 



Young branches, under surfaces of leaves and panicles 

 covered with minute simple scales not stellate 

 Stamens 4 : — 



Panicles ebracteate, or bracts, if any, caducous : — 

 Flowers *3 in. long ; fruit '15 to '2 in. in diam. ; 

 mouth of calyx-tube 4-toothed ; petals broadly 

 oblong, blunt; stamens blunt, not appendiculate 

 at the apex ... ... ... ... 7. D, celebica. 



Flowers '5 in. long; fruit '2 to '25 in. in diam. ; 

 mouth of calyx-tube truncate not toothed : 

 petals ovate, acute ; stamens narrowed to the 

 appendiculate apex ... ... ... 8. D. intermedia. 



Panicles with persistent, oblong bracts : — 



Young branches at first rusty stellate-hairy, 

 finally glabrous; branches of panicle divari- 

 cating, lax ... ... ... ... 9. D, anomala. 



Young branches with persistent, pale, adpressed, 

 stellate hairs; branches of panicle short, 

 condensed ... ... ... ... 10. D. Scortechimi. 



1. Dissocileta annulata, Hook. fil. ex Triana in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVIII, 83. A strong climber ; young branches, petioles, under 

 surfaces of leaves and inflorescence covered with dense, rusty, deciduous 

 stellate tomentum, the nodes thickened and slightly aunulate. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, the apices shortly and 

 rather abruptly acuminate, upper surface at first sparsely stellate-hairy, 

 ultimately glabrous, the nerves and reticulations bold ; length 25 to 

 3*5 in. ; breadth 1 to 1*8 in. ; petiole *2 to '5 in. Panicle solitary ter- 

 minal, much longer" than the leaves, lax, the branches divaricating, 



