216 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
slightly channelled on the upper surface, bold on the lower; main-nerves 
10 to 12 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, interarching far from the 
edge, faint on both surfaces ; length 5 to 6'5 in., breadth 2'5 to 3'25 in. 
Male flowers -65 in. long (in bud) on rusty-pubescent pedicels -3 to 
■4 in. long, in axillary and extra-axillary fascicles of 2 to 4, with a few 
tomentose bracteoles at their bases. Calyx very coriaceous, "25 in. long 
and nearly as much in width at the mouth ; limb 4-lobed, the 
lobes very short and broad. Corolla narrowly tubular, -4 in. long, 
very thick ; lobes of limb long, narrowly oblong. Stamens 16 ; 
sub-sessile, linear, sub-equal, apiculate ; rudimentary ovary none. 
Female flower; calyx and corolla as in the $ , staminodes none; 
ovary oblong or oval-ovoid, narrowed at the apex, longer than the 
calyx, 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell i and pendulous. Fruit olive- 
shaped, shortly apiculate, T5 to 2 in. long and 1 to 1'25 in. in diam. at 
the middle, yellow when ripe ; its pedicel obconic, stout, woody, -4 in. 
long ; calyx in ripe fruit flat, with 4 broad blunt lobes. Seed solitary ; 
pericarp thin, only -3 in. across, albumen large stellately ruminate. 
Maba Maingayi, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 107 ; Clarke in 
Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 552. 
Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 976; Derry 1092. Singapore: Bidley 
27, 2755, 4920. Perak: at elevations of 1,500 to 2,000 feet, King's 
Collector 7383. 
13. Diospyros styraciformis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 
young branches rusty-pubescent, slightly thicker than a crow-quill. 
Leaves thinly coriaceous ; elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, the apex sub- 
acute or acute, the base cuneate ; upper suface dark olivaceous, shining, 
glabrous except the depressed midrib ; the lower surface dull, paler, 
with deciduous rufous pubescence, especially on the prominent midrib ; 
main-nerves about 5 pairs, ascending, little curved, slightly prominent 
on the lower surface only; length 2-5 to 4 in., breadth 1 to 2 in. ; 
petiole - 2 to '35 in. Male flowers a few together in short cymes grouped 
in small axillary clusters. Calyx -2 in. long, narrowly campanulate, 
densely rusty-tomentose externally like the corolla, the mouth with 
deep narrowly-triangular teeth. Corolla - 5 in. long, narrowly tubular, 
cut half-way down into 4 oblong blunt lobes. Stamens 16, in pairs, 
unequal, linear, apiculate; filaments unequal in length; rudimentary 
ovary none. Female flowers solitary, calyx much longer than in the $ ; 
its 4 lobes thick, broad, reniform, rusty-pubescent. Corolla not known ; 
ovary hairy. Fruit globose with the apex truncate and depressed in 
the middle, densely but minutely pale rusty-tomentose, -5 in. long 
and about '65 in. in diam. Calyx at its base deeply cupular with 
4 spreading triangular teeth. D. nov. spec., C. B. Clarke in Herb. 
