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tlie sears of fallen leaves or on the year-old wood below the leaves and 
shoots of the year ; pedicels - 1 to - 2 in. long, rusty-tomentose. Calyx- 
lobes 5, imbricate, - 15 to - 2 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent without, 
rounded. Corolla tubular-campanulate, -15 in. long, absent in ? 
flowers; lobes very short, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens attached to 
the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers ovate, apiculate, opening by side- 
slits ; staminodes linear-lanceolate. Ovary thickly rusty-pubescent, 
flattened at top, obscurely 5-lobed, 5-celled ; style cylindric. Berry 
fleshy, somewhat oblong, rounded, tipped with the persistent style, 
thickly covered with velvety orange-red tomentum and about -5 in. in 
diam. Seeds not accurately known. 
Penang : Curtis 1452. Perak : Wray 136 ; King’s Collector 6550. 
Malacca : M wing ay (K.D.) 994 ; Rolmberg 704. Singapore : Ridley 
6130, 6499 ; Cantley 89. 
Mr. Cantley says that this tree gives the true “ Daru-daru ” or “ Ded&ru ” wood of 
the Malay Peninsula. 
2. Sideroxylon Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 536 
(1882). A tree with rusty-pubescent branchlets and young shoots. 
Leaves membranous ; crowded towards the ends of the branchlets ; 
obovate, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; rusty-pubescent 
when young, glabrous when old or rusty-pubescent on the midrib and 
main-nerves; 4 to 8 in. long, 1‘5 to 3 in. broad; midrib prominent ; main- 
nerves 8 to 11 pairs, starting at an angle of nearly 60° to the midrib, 
at first parallel then arching upwards to near the margin ; transverse 
reticulations more or less parallel; petiole 1 to 1-5 in. long, bordered 
by the decurrent margins of the blade. Flowers fasciculate, sessile or 
with very short pedicels, chiefly on the previous year’s wood below the 
leaves and shoots of the year. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate, rounded, 
rusty-pubescent without, -075 to -1 in. in diam. Corolla tubular- 
campanulate, as long as or rather shorter than the calyx, wanting 
in 2 flowers ; lobes very short, obtuse, imbricate. Stamens short ; 
filaments slender ; anthers ovate ; staminodes linear- lanceolate. Ovary 
thickly rusty-pubescent, flattened at top ; style cylindric. Berry fleshy, 
1'5 i n - i n diam., ovoid or globular, full of guttapercha. Seeds 4, 
compressed, - 7 in. long by "3 to '35 in. broad ; rounded outside, nearly 
stiaight within, the long narrow oblong hilum covering nearly the whole 
maigin , testa hard, shining, dark chestnut-brown; albumen firm, 
white ; cotyledons plane, appressed, elliptic ; radicle inferior. 
Negri Sembilan : Ridley 10084. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 993 ; 
Rervey. Singapore : Ridley 8928, 9223. 
The fruit description is chiefly taken from Maingay ’s notes in the Kew Herbarium. 
