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length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2*25 to 3 in. ; petiole "7 to '9 in., tomentose. 
Racemes simple, short, 2- or 3-flowered, pnbescent. Flowers 2*5 in. long. 
Calyx with narrowly campanulate tube, covered outside with minute, 
pale, stellate tomeri turn. Petals linear-oblong 1 , blunt, more or less pnbeB- 
cent outside. Fruit (? immature) globular-ovoid, glabrous, "65 in. in 
diam. : accrescent calyx-lobes glabrous, reticulate, linear, blunt, con- 
tracted at the very base, nearly 5 in. long and about *75 in. broad. 
Penaug; at the back of West Hill, at an elevation of 1,000 feet. 
Curtis No. 1403. 
A very distinct species known only by Mr. Curtis' scanty speci- 
mens. I have named it iu honour of Mr. Skinner, Resident Councellor 
of Penang. 
4. Divterocarpps TURBtNATUS, Gaertn. f. Fruct. III. 51, t. 188. 
A tree 80 to 100 feet high : young shoots rather slender, at first minute- 
ly velvety, pale grey, afterwards glabrous : buds cylindric, softly pale 
pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acuto 
or shortly acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cordate, the edges 
slightly undulate, sometimes sub-crenate j both surfaces glabrous, or 
the lower pubcrulons especially on the midrib and nerves : main nerves 
12 to 18 pairs, straight, oblique, prominent on the lower surface ; 
length 4*5 to 11 in., breadth 2'5 to 5'25 in. ; petiole 1 to 1"5 in., glabrous 
or pubescent: stipules tawny-velvety in the lower part but pubescent to- 
wards tho apex. Racemes 3- to S-flowered. Flowers 1*25 to 1"5 in. long. 
Calyx-t)ihe obconic, glabrous, smooth, not winged. Petals linear-oblong, 
obtuse, more or less canesceut. Fruit ellipsoid-ovoid, tapering to each end 
when young : globular when ripe and '75 in. in diam., with neither 
wings nor ridges ; the two accrescent calyx-lobes glabrous, conspicuously 
reticulate, obscurely 3-nerved, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 4 to 4 5 in. 
long and 1*25 in. broad ; the throe small lobes of the calyx deltoid, very 
short. Roxb. Hort. Bong. 42; FL Jnd. II. 612; Coram. Plants III. 
10 t, 213. Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. VI. 300 : Wall Cat. 952; A. DC. 
Prod. XVI. 2, 607 j W. and Am. Prod. 85 ; Dyer in Hook, fii Fl. 
Br. Ind. I, 295 : Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 102 t. 143, fi ? . 13: Kurz. For. Fl. 
Burnt. I. 114. D. laevis, Ham. 1. c. 299. ; A. DC. 1. c. 607. W. and A. 
Prod. 85 : Kurz, L c. 114. ?D. indicus, Bedd. Forest. Rep. 1864-5, 
17 cum tab.; Flora Sylvat. t. 94. 
Assam, Cachar, Chittagoug, Burmah, S. India. 
V ui. audamanica : enlarged calyx-lobes linear-oblong, not oblanceo- 
late, *75 in. broad ; leaves broadly ovate, sub-cuneate at tho base. 
South Andaman : common. 
Following Dyer, I have included under this the plant named D. 
laevis by Buchanan Hamilton iu the Memoirs of the Wernerran Society, 
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