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minutely adpressed-scaly ; length 5 to <>o in., breadth 15 to 1*8 in. ; 
petiole 0 in., scaly like the branches. Peduncles '5 to 1 in. long, in 
fascicles from tubercles on the stem, angled, bifurcating at the apex 
and bearing two pedicellate flowers, sometimes bearing one or two 
pedicels below the apex : pedicels two or three times as long as the 
common peduncles, angled, loosely scaly. Flowers 2*5 to 3 in. long. 
Bracts 2, broadly ovate, acute, embracing the buds. Sepals 5, ovate- 
oblong, blunt, valvate, 125 in. long, glabrous internally but with numer- 
ous very loose scales externally. PetaU nearly twice as long as the sepals, 
narrow ly oblong, pubescent on both surfaces, the outer with a few loose 
scales. Anthers narrowly oblong, 1 -celled, Bessile in groupB on the 
apices of groups of combined filaments which are again united into 5 
phalanges which, for more than half their length, form a tube round the 
ovary and style. Ovary oblong, angled, densely covered with scales 
with long ey limine stalks and flat heads, h'/i/tv f-horfer rhan the stami- 
na! tube, pubescent, slightly scaly. Stigma capitate. Young fruit 
globular, densely covered with subulate puheseeni seines. Ripe fruit 
uuknowu. Mast, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. oOJ, t. xiv. fig. 17 to 20: 
Beccari Malesia, iii. 237, t. xii. fig. 6 to 8. 
Malacca; Griffith, Maingay (No. 212, Kew Distrib.) Distrib. 
Burmah, 
This is known only from Malacca and Burmah. It is distinguished 
from ]). Perakeiisis, which in other respects it much resembles, by the 
stalked scales on the ovary, and by the larger and looser scales on the 
leaves. Doubtless when ripe fruit of both is found, better characters 
will be yielded by it. Beccari's specimen No. 852, and the same distin- 
guished botanist's Nos. 2190 and 2590 from Borneo, have been referred 
by Masters (Journ. Linn. Soc. 1. c.) to this species. But Beccari (in 
Malesia iii. 238, 244) founded his species D, ajfinis on the former, and 
his D. testitudinarwrn on the two latter. 
4. D. testitu din arum, Becc. Malesia, iii, p. 244, t. xiii and xiv. 
A tall tree bearing flowers only near the base of the trunk ; young 
branches rather slender, minutely sub-adpressed scaly. Leaves narrowly 
elliptic-oblong or oblauceolate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the 
margins (in var. 2) sometimes with a single wide shallow indentation, 
the base rounded ; upper surface glabrous, the lower densely covered 
with sub-adpressed scales : main nerves 18 to 22 pairs, rather bold, 
subhorizontai : length 4 6 to 8 5 in. {only 2 5 to 3 5 in. in var. 1 and 
much longer and broader in var. 2) ; breadth 1*4 to 2 2 in. • petiole 
6 to '25 in , thicke ned at apex. Flowers 3 to 3'5 in. long, in short con- 
densed brae teo late racemes from tubercles near the base of the trunk; 
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