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Scortechini 2052. — Disteib. Andaman Islands, South India, Malay 
Archipelago. 
4. Diospyeos dumosa, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree ; 
young branches as thick as a crow-quill, glabrous, dark-coloured 
when dry. Leaves small, alternate, membranous ; lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface dark olivaceous when dry, 
glabrous; lower yellowish, slightly puberulous on the slightly pro- 
minent midrib and 4 or 5 pairs of curved ascending nerves ; length 1'5 
to 2 in. ; breadth -5 to '75 in. ; petiole -05 in. Male flowers -5 in. long, 
in small axillary sessile fascicles of 3 or 4. Calyx -25 in. long, deeply 
divided into 3 or 4 ovate-lanceolate acuminate lobes, concave along the 
midrib, and with undulate edges, pubescent. Corolla twice as long as the 
calyx, narrowly tubular, deeply divided into 4 narrow oblong glabrous 
lobes, the tube pubescent inside and outside. Stamens 12, inserted at 
its base on unequal slender filaments ; anthers broadly lanceolate, 
much apiculate. Female flowers solitary, axillary, shortly pedicellate, 
■4 in. long. Calyx cleft to the base into 4 large broadly ovate reniform 
bluntly acuminate undulate lobes, sparsely adpressed-pubescent on 
both surfaces, -25 in. long and as much across. Corolla a little 
longer but less hairy than the calyx, fleshy, tubular, tetragonous, 
divided for half its length into 4 narrow oblong lobes. Staminodcs 
8, linear-lanceolate, apiculate, on slender filaments. Ovary narrowly 
ellipsoid, tapering to the rather long style, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 
Pebak: Wray 3508. Junkseylon (Tongka) : Gwrtis 2907. 
5. Diospyeos geacilifloea, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 
XII. 191 (1873). A glabrous tree 40 to 50 feet high; young branches 
less than half as thick as a goose-quill, deciduously puberulous, dark- 
coloured and striate when dry. Leaves thickly membranous, alternate ; 
rather narrowly elliptic, shortly and bluntly apiculate to caudate- 
acuminate, the base much narrowed and often slightly oblique ; both 
surfaces dull dark olivaceous-brown when dry, glabrous except for 
some minute hairs on the nerves beneath ; main-nerves about 5 pairs, 
curved, ascending, depressed or obscure on the upper surface, pale and 
slightly prominent on the lower like the midrib ; length 2 - 5 to 4 - 5 in., 
breadth -75 to 1-35; petioles T to -2 in. Male flowers -5 in. long, few 
together, in small axillary cymes about as long as the petioles, sessile, 
puberulous. Calyx large, two-thirds to one-half the length of the 
corolla, but much wider, deeply divided into 4 large ovate-rotund 
undulate semi-erect lobes. Corolla narrowly tubular, one-third to one- 
half longer than the calyx ; the tube externally with 4 lines of 
pubescence, otherwise glabreseent ; limb with 4 deeply oblong broad 
blunt glabrous spreading sub-undulate lobes. Stamens 8, in two rows, 
