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oblong bell-shaped, about 3 lin. long, the lobes rounded and very 
short; corolla shortly salver-shaped, tawny-tomentose, the tube 
somewhat longer than the calyx, ample, but hardly widened, the 
lobes about 2 lin. long, ovate, acute; stamens in males about 16, 
inserted on the torus, unequal; filaments short; anthers linear, 
acuminate ; ovary densely tawny-pubescent, in the males rudiment- 
ary; berries (unripe) depressed-globose, the size of a large cherry, 
(?) Var. 2, Andamanica: leaves oblong to linear-oblong, the 
lateral nerves faint and numerous. 
Has.—Var. 2: rather rare in the tropical forests of the Andamans.—Fl. 
May.—s.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
_ 19. D. variegata, Kz.—A tree (60—70+4+30—40+4—6), shed- 
ding leaves in H.S., all parts quite glabrous ; bark about 2-3 lin. thick, 
roughish, blackish; cut red; leaves elliptically oblong or oblong, 
sometimes somewhat unequal at the base, on a thick 2-4 lin. long 
petiole, 5-8 in. long, acute to acuminate, entire, chartaceous or thin- 
coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves and the lax net-veination beneath 
prominent and conspicuous, in a dried state remaining green-colour- 
3 flowers small, yellow, 4-merous, in bud about 4-5 lin. long, 
elongate, on very short bracteolate pedicels, by 3 or a few in short- 
peduncled, minutely puberulous, bracted cymes in the axils of the 
leaves, or arranged along the young often leafless shoots in a sort of 
spurious raceme; bracts broad, rather acute, puberulous ; calyx 
puberulous, deeply 4-cleft, the lobes broadly oblong, blunt, about 2 
lin. long; corolla-tube urceolate, a little longer than the calyx- 
lobes, the lobes ovate, acute, as long as the tube; stamens in the 
males about 16, unequal, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments short ; anthers linear, cordate at the base, acuminate, 
glabrous ; females and fruits unknown. 
z Has.—Not unfrequent in the moister upper mixed and the tropical forests of 
gu and Martaban, up to 1,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Apr.—l.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
sof AKS.—Sapwood white, turning greyish, heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, 
20. D. stricta, Roxb.— A large tree, the trunk perfectly 
straight, the younger parts all softly pubescent ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late to ovate, on a 1-2 lin. long petiole, 1-24 in. long, acuminate, 
membranous or almost chartaceous, along the midrib above and 
heath all over pubescent, glossy above ; flowers small, 4-merous, 
White, sessile, the males forming very small, few-flowered, appressed 
Wwny-pubescent, bracted spikes, the females solitary on a very 
‘short 2-bracted peduncle or almost sessile in the axils of the leaves; 
