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acute, rounded or emarginate ; minutely denticulate or sub-entire; 
glabrous above except the 16 to 20 pairs of snb-horizontal pubescent nerves, 
fuscous-tomentoso beneath ; blade 3-5 to 7 in, long by 2 75 to 3*5 in. broad, 
petiole about 1 in. tomentose. Flowers solitary 6 to 8 in. in diam. ; pe- 
duncles stout, tomentose, 2*5 in. long 1 . Sepals reflexed, ovate, concave, 
thick, minutely adpressed-tomentose in the middle externally, the margins 
and inner surface glabrous. Petals obovate, yellow, veined. Stigmas 
about 15, long, linear, recurved. H. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. I, 70 ; Hook. fil. 
Fl. Ur. Ind. % 36 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 1, Pt. ii, 12, 
Penang and Perak. In tropical forests. 
I have seen no ripe fruit of this, nor have I found any description of 
the ripe fruit. I am therefore unable to say whether the sepal a and 
seeds are those of a IHllenia or a Wormia. This comes near D, aurea, 
but the panicles are much laxer and the petioles longer. 
3. D. aurea, Sm. Ex. Bot. 93, t. 92. A tree, the branch lets 08 
thick as the little finger, glabrous, scabrid : young parts rufous-aerice- 
ous. Leaves obovate, blunt or acute, crenate-dontato, glabrous above 
except the 20 pairs of pubescent, bold, sub-transverse nerves ; under 
surface softly puberulous : length of blade 5 to 8 in. : breadth 3 to 4'5 
in.: petiole l*-5 to 2 in., sheathing at the base. Flowers solitary, from 
shortened branches, 4 to 5 in. diam. ; peduncles stout, 1 in. or more. Sepals 
oblong, obtuse, concave, fleshy, adpressed-pubesceut externally when 
young, when olcl glaucous. Petals obovate, yellow, veined. Stigmas 
about 10, linear, radiate. DC. Prodr. i. 76 ; Wall Cat. 6624 j H. f. & T. 
Fl. Cud. 70. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 1, :17 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat, Vol.1, 
pt. ii, 12; Martt-lli in Malesia III, 155. D, omata, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i, 
21, t. 23: Cat. 947. D. speciosa, Griff. Nofcul. iv, 703. Colbert ia 
ohovata, Bl. Migdr. 6, 
Throughout the Indn- Malayan region, at low elevations. 
4. D. reticulata, King, n. sp. A largo tree. Leaves very coria- 
ceous, obovafe-clliptic, obtuse?, dentato ; the base truncate, cordate; 
upper surface glabrous except tho impressed midrib and nerves, which 
are pubescent ; under surface pubescent, the midrib and nerves very 
strong ; reticulations minute, very bold, areolar ; nerves 32 to 3t> pairs, sub- 
horizontal ; length of blade 10 to 18 in., breadth 7 to 12 in., petiole 2 to : J . in. 
winged, much expanded at the base. Cymes lateral and terminal, short, 
branching, 10 to 12 (lowered, pubescent ; podicels stout, bracteolate. Sepals 
thick, broadly elliptic to orbicular, 1 in. in diam., pubescent externally. 
Petals oblong, concave, 15 in. long. Stamens in many series ; the outer 
inflexed, introrse ; the inner erect and extrorse. Pistils about 9, puber- 
ulous ; stigmas linear, radiating, ovules cx-arillate. 
