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BECCARI. 
very narrow annular rim round the flat orbicular scar left by the 
flower. Areola of the neuter flower rather small, concave, niche-like, 
not callous. Female flowers 5 mm. long, when in bud, with an ovate 
base and a trigonus apex; the calyx very shallowly cupular with 3 broad 
acute teeth; the corolla 4 times as long as the calyx, parted down almost 
to the base into 3 elongately triangular, sharply striately veined segments. 
Fruiting perianth very broadly obconic and therefore not distinctly 
pedicelliform. Fruit small, spherical, very shortly and broadly conically 
beaked, 12 mm. in diameter when quite ripe; scales in 12 to 14 longi- 
tudinal series, polished, narrowly and sharply channeled along the middle 
exactly rhomboid, with an obtuse tip, straw yellow with very harrow 
almost entire margins. Seed globular, slightly depressed, 10. mm. broad, 
8 mm. high, its surface pitted and tubercled. 
Palawan, No. 3791 H. M. Curran, February, 1906. 
D. Curranii is a near ally of I). elongatus Bl., from which it differs in the 
leaves with equidistant leaflets, in the rachis spinulous on the salient angle above, 
and in the slightly larger spherical fruit. 
