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This species is allied to A. dfvergens but is a much 

 smaller plant. 



Ebenaceae. 

 Diospyros pyriferm, n. sp. 



A tree about thirty feet tall with black bark. Leaves 

 glabrous elliptic apex subacute or obtuse, base rounded, 

 coriaceous 11-13 inches long 4 inches across, midrib stout 

 prominent beneath, channelled above lateral nerves prom- 

 inent beneath, depressed above about 13 pairs, alternate 

 and irregular, meeting in loops within the margin reti- 

 culations conspicuous, petiole thick J inch long. Flow- 

 ers in fascicles on the trunk or branches, cream color. 

 Cymes f inch long much branched with slender branches 

 covered with appressed hairs. Bracts small ovate. 

 Calyx lobes small T ^ inch long ovate hairy 5. Corolla 

 male, thick and coriaceous J inch long, tube flask shaped 

 lobes rounded recurved all glabrous. Stamens very 

 numerous, about 30 ,in pairs, the front and back ones 

 connate in pairs by the filaments, the back one with a 

 longer filament than the front one, filaments very short, 

 anthers linear, tip acute. Female flowers not seen. 

 Fruit pear-shaped glabrous green 3J inches long, 2 inches 

 through, pericarp inside white, seeds ten. Calyx broad 

 I inch long green glabrescent lobes spreading ovate acute 

 inch long. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, forest at the West entrance 

 to the Fern Valley (Eidley NFos. 8101, 10847, 10442, 

 6118, 8114). Flowering April and October, fruit 

 October. 



Near D. ohlonga, Wall, but with many more stamens 

 and a very different fruit like a small pear. 



LOGANIACEAE. )f : ' ? i 



Fagraea rotundifolia, n. sp. 



A shrub with short internodes and opposite round 

 leaves, sometimes sub refuse with a small projecting point 



R. A. Soc, No. so, 1908, 



