212 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
4 of them smaller than the other 4 ; anthers linear-lanceolate, apicu- 
late, the filaments flat, very short ; rudimentary ovary small, narrowly 
ovate, glabrous. Female flowers like the 3 and often mixed with 
them, but sometimes solitary. Ovary broadly ovoid, with short style, 
glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 in. long and -75 in. in diam., glabrous, 
crowned by the short remains of the style, and subtended by the 
calyx with 4 spreading, undulate, sub-glabrous lobes. D. flavicans, 
Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 205 (as to female plant partly). 
D. decipiens, Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 563. 
Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 972 (? only). Peeak: Scortechini 
181, 198; Wray 1298, 2843, 3214, 4227; King’s Collector 884, 3298, 
3354, 3366, 3588, 3394, 5173, 6742, 7990, 10463. Penang: Curtis 
3041. — Distbib. Java, Beccari 1560. 
6. Diospyeos Scobtechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 15 to 
30 or even 50 feet high; young branches as thick as a crow-quill, 
tawny -puberulous, angled, pale when dry. Leaves alternate, small, 
membranous ; narrowly elliptic-oblong, acuminate, much narrowed at 
the base to the short petiole ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when 
dry, the upper glabrous, the lower often puberulous, especially on 
the midrib ; main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, spreading, curved, ascending, 
somewhat distinct on the lower surface, faint on the upper as are the 
transverse reticulations ; length 2 to 4 in., breadth -6 to 1-25 in. ; 
petiole -1 to 15 in. Male flowers -5 in. long, in shortly pedunculate 
axillary fascicles of 2 or 3, or solitary and pedicellate. Calyx 1 in. 
long, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, 1 in. long, campanulate, 
deeply divided into 4 broad almost truncate lobes. Corolla coriaceous, 
•3 in. long, glabrous ; tube tapering a little to the apex ; lobes 4, oblong, 
sub-acute, spreading. Stamens 8 ; anthers shortly lanceolate, as long 
as the filaments. Female floivers longer than the 3 , solitary, the 
pedicel as long as the calyx, tomentose. Ovary ellipsoid, densely 
pilose ; style short, conic ; stigmas small, glabrous. Fruit ellipsoid, 
crowned by the very short style, puberulous. Calyx at its base 
cupular, -2 in. across, tomentose outside, -75 in. long and -4 in. in 
diam. 
Peeak: Curtis 2092; King’s Collector 2407, 4126, 5002, 5296, 6356; 
Scortechini 377 ; Wray 638. 
7. Diospyeos flavicans, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 205 
(1873). A tree 40 to 70 feet high ; young branches rather thicker than a 
crow-quill, cinereous-puberulous becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, 
thinly coriaceous ; elliptic to oblong-elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, the 
base cuneate ; upper surface when dry olivaceous, glabrous, the lower 
pale brown, densely puberulous on the stout midrib ; main-nerves 5 to 
