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Flora of tlic Malayan Peninsula. 
Perak : King’s Collector 7363, 7749. 
19. Diospyros ellipsoidea, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree or 
shrub ; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, deeidu- 
ously and densely rusty-puberulous. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous ; 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, rarely slightly oblanceolate, apex acute, base 
rounded ; both surfaces when dry olivaceous-brown, the upper glabrous, 
the midrib sometimes rusty-puberulous, the lower surface darker, 
minutely puberulous ; midrib and 10 to 12 pairs of curved ascending 
nerves faintly prominent on the lower and depressed on the upper 
surface; length 6 to 10 in.; breadth 2-25 to 3'5 in.; petioles -25 to 
•3 in. Male flowers in dense axillary cymes of 6 to 12, not much 
longer than the petioles ; braeteoles few, broad, densely rusty-tomentose. 
Calyx sub-sessile, tomentose externally, glabrous internally, divided 
into 4 sub-rotund blunt lobes. Corolla glabrous, very fleshy towards 
the apex, with 4 broad deep lobes. Stamens at the base of the tube, 
broadly ovate, apiculate, filaments flattened. Female flowers in sub- 
sessile clusters of 3 or 4. Calyx with 4 rounded lobes, reflexed, 
coriaceous, and in fruit only - 35 in. across. Fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, 
crowned by the short style and subtended by the reflexed broadly-lobed 
small calyx, 1 to 1"25 in. long and - 8 in. in diam. Seeds few, ellipsoid, 
apiculate, two of the sides compressed. 
Perak: King’s Collector 2233, 3250, 7098, 7269, 7320, 7689, 
8215 ; Scortechini 1615. 
20. Diospyros Wallichii, King & Gamble. A tree 30 to 60 feet 
high ; young branches covered with minute coarse hair, the older 
verrucose. Leaves alternate, coriaceous'; oblong or elliptic-oblong, apex 
acute, base cuneate or rounded ; edges slightly recurved ; upper 
surface glabrous and shining, lower paler, minutely pubescent at 
first but becoming glabrescent, both olivaceous when dry ; midrib 
depressed on the upper surface, bold on the lower ; main-nerves 14 to 
18 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, prominent on the lower surface, 
faint on the upper; length 8 to 14 in., breadth 2-5 to 5 in. ; petiole -5 
to -75 in. Male cymes '5 to - 75 in. long, in clusters (often crowded) on 
the branches, 7-10-flowered ; braeteoles broad, blunt, concave, thick 
like the calyx and corolla, and like them densely rusty-tomentose 
externally. Calyx -1 to -15 in. long, tubular; the mouth with 4 blunt 
triangular erect teeth ; tomentose on both surfaces. Corolla thrice as 
long as the calyx ; narrowly tubular, glabrous inside. Stamens 16, in 
2 rows, the inner attached to the outer at the bases of their filaments; 
all linear; rudimentary ovary small, hairy. Female flower rather larger 
than the $ , but in smaller cymes ; the calyx tetragonous and deeply 
grooved, very fleshy, becoming woody, very large and boldly 4-angled and 
