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Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3632. Kedah : Curtis 2596, 8327 ? ; 
Ridley 327. 
17. Diospyros tbistis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 40 to 50 
feet high; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, covered with 
deciduous almost black tomentum. Leaves alternate, coriaceous; 
oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate ; both 
surfaces dingy olivaceous-brown when dry, minutely reticulate ; upper 
surface glabrous, shining, the lower dull, the prominent midrib densely 
clothed with dark hairs; the 7 or 8 pairs of prominent ascending 
main-nerves and the intermediate spaces with a few similar hairs with 
bulbous bases; length 6 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 2-75 in.; petioles -4 
to -5 in. Male flowers -3 in. long, in short axillary cymes -75 in. long, 
the branches and pedicels densely dark rusty-tomentose outside. Calyx 
glabrous inside ; the mouth with 5 broad short obtuse teeth. Corolla 
fleshy, glabrous, like the calyx in shape and of about the same length. 
Stamens 24 ; anthers lanceolate, shortly appendiculate at the apex, 
sessile. Female flowers unknown. Fruit depressed-globose, glabrous, 
shining, nearly 2 in. in diam. ; the calyx at its base thick, woody, fiat, 
1-5 in. across, with 5 spreading triangular lobes. 
Perak : Wray 2190 ; King’s Collector 5521. 
18. Diospybos pauciflora, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous shrub 
or small tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, their 
bark dark and rough. Leaves rather large, alternate, very coriaceous ; 
oblong-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate, the 
base slightly cuneate ; upper surface olivaceous, shining, lower 
ochraceous, dull; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, curved, and 
interarching boldly -1 or -2 in. from the slightly recurved edge ; length 
5 to 10 in., breadth 1-75 to 3 in. ; petiole -25 to -3 in., corrugated. 
Male flowers -3 in. long, sessile and in sessile axillary fascicles of from 3 
to 6. Calyx -25 in. long, narrowly tubular, somewhat narrowed at 
base and apex, coriaceous, pale in colour, the mouth with 4 broad 
triangular short erect lobes, outer surface with a layer of minute 
adpressed tawny tomentum and scattered over it many black adpressed 
hairs ; the interior paler, pustular, with a few similar scattered hairs 
and a thick ring of them near the base surrounding the rudimentary 
ovary and clothing it also. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, 
fleshy, widely tubular, divided for half its length into 4 broad obtuse 
lobes with a broad line of adpressed black hairs along the midrib of each 
outside, the rest of the outer surface adpressed-sericeous, the interior 
quite glabrous. Stamens 12, viz., 8 in pairs standing face to face and 
united by their short filaments, and 4 free; anthers of all linear, 
densely hairy, on short glabrous filaments. Female flowers not seen. 
