Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 217 
Kew. D. hirsuta, Linn, fil., ? var., Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 
XII. 165. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 969. Singapore : Ridley 3787. 
Kidley’s No. 1084, from Bukit Timah, in Singapore, seems to belong to this. The 
only specimen I have seen is imperfect. 
14. Diospyros lucid.a, Wall. Cat. 4127 (1829). A tree 40 to 50 feet 
high; young branches from half as thick to as thick as a crow-quill, 
minutely puberulous, becoming glabrescent, dark-coloured. Leaves alter- 
nate, coriaceous ; oblong or elliptic-oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, the base 
rounded or euneate, sometimes a little oblique ; both surfaces when dry 
pale olivaceous-brown, glabrous ; main-nerves 5 to 9 pairs, spreading, 
curved, faint on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper ; 
midrib bold on the lower surface, somewhat depressed on the upper ; 
length 1-25 to 4-5 in., breadth -5 to P5 in. ; petioles -2 to ‘4 in. Male 
flowers sessile, in small fascicles. Calyx nearly T5 in. long, campanulate, 
with 4 erect broadly triangular lobes, tomentose on both surfaces. 
Corolla narrowly tubular, more than twice as long as the calyx, tetra- 
gonous in bud, serieeous-tomentose outside, the tube glabrous inside ; 
limb deeply divided into 4 narrowly oblong thick lobes. Stamens 12 to 
16, in pairs united by their short filaments and face to face ; anthers 
linear, glabrous, minutely apiculate, and on short sericeous filaments ; 
rudimentary ovary linear. Female flowers 1 or 2 together, axillary or 
extra-axillary, sub-sessile. Calyx longer than in the $ , lobed nearly to the 
base ; lobes broadly ovate, their recurved margins minutely tomentose. 
Fruit globose, ‘75 in. or more in diam., sub-truncate and slightly 
umbonate at the apex, adpressed rusty-pubescent at first, ultimately 
glabrous, 4-6-seeded ; the accrescent calyx at its base woody, 
cupular, -6 in. across with 4 short broad reflexed lobes ; albumen of 
seed not ruminate. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 233 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. 
Br. Ind. III. 568. D. hirsuta, var. lucida Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. 
Soc. XII. 163 {not of Linn, fil.) 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3637 ; Maingay (K.D.) 970, 973, 977, 
3,500; Derry 1439. Perak: Scortechini ; Wray 3018, 3056. 
Penang : Curtis 250, 1602 ; King’s Collector 1050, 1760. Singapore : 
Ridley 2119, 2749, 3580, 4962, 4963, 6129, 8115, 9212, 9517. 
This is probably only a southern form of the Indian species D. lanceafolia, Boxb. 
15. Diospyros oblonga, Wall. Cat. 4124 (1829). A tree ; young 
branches thinner than a goose-quill, purplish-brown when dry, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glabrous ; oblong-elliptic, shortly and 
abruptly apiculate, the base rounded or slightly euneate ; both surfaces 
