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nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, faint on both surfaces ; length 
1- 5 to 2'25 in., breadth -6 to -8 in. ; petiole about -1 in. Male floiaer 
■6 in. long, solitary, axillary on a short tomentose pedicel with 2 broad 
bracteoles. Calyx less than -1 in. long, pubescent outside, glabrous 
inside, deeply divided into 4 broad obtuse almost quadrate imbricate 
lobes. Corolla salver-shaped ; the tube cylindric, tapering to the apex, 
tomentose outside ; limb as long as the tube but less hairy outside, 
glabrous inside like the tube, deeply divided into 4 oblong sub-acute 
lobes with indexed edges, twisted to the right in bud. Stamens 8, 
attached near the bottom of the tube, 4 shorter than the others ; 
anthers all lanceolate, and on short filaments. Female flower not 
known. Fruit ellipsoid, sparsely adpressed-puberulous, crowned by 
the conic style, -8 or -9 in. long and -4 in. in diam. Calyx at its base 
•25 in. across, flat, with 4 spreading, broad, blunt lobes. 
Perak : Wray 4055 ; King’s Collector 7302. — Distrib. Sumatra, 
Forbes 2004. 
3. Diospyros microphylla, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 27, t. cxxxiii. 
(1874), and PI. Sylv. Madr. cxlv. A tree 20 to 30 feet high ; young 
branches as thick as a crow-quill or thinner, densely pubescent. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, alternate, distichous ; ovate-lanceolate, sub-rhomboid, 
the apex sub-acute, the base cuneate; upper surface dark olivaceous- 
brown, glabrous except the pubescent depressed midrib ; the lower dark 
brown, puberulous, the midrib pubescent; main-nerves obsolete on both 
surfaces ; length 1 to l - 4 in., breadth - 45 to ’65 in. ; petiole '05 ; the 
largest leaves towards the ends of the branches. Male flowers solitary 
or 3 together in a minute cyme. Calyx -05 long, deeply 4-lobed, tube 
glabrate. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx with 4 rounded lobes. 
Stamens about 16. Female flowers ■ 2 in. long, axillary, solitary, pedicel- 
late or in a pair on a short peduncle. Calyx eampanulate, deeply 
divided into 4 sub-rotund imbricate very obtuse lobes, sericeous on the 
middle outside and on the edges, otherwise glabrous. Corolla salver- 
shaped, somewhat longer than the calyx, deeply cut into 4 unequal 
rotund lobes, adpressed-puberulous on the back of the lobes, otherwise 
glabrous. Ovary ovoid, sericeous near the apex and base ; style thick, 
2- fid ; stigmas 4. Ovary 4-celled, ellipsoid, conic, 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 
Fruit cylindric or oblong-conical, dry, glabrous, 1-celled, 1- rarely 
2-seeded, '75 to 1 in. long. Clarke in Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. III. 559. 
1). buxifolia, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 218. D. vaecini- 
oides, Wall. Cat. 4130 (in part). Leucoxylum buxifolium, Blume Bijdr. 
1169 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. II. 1050 ; Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 43 t. 2, 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3643 ; Walker 170 ; Maingay (K.D.) 966. 
Singapore: Ridley 6045. Penang: Curtis 1513, 7175. Perak: 
