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grooved in the ripe fruit. Corolla as in the $ , but somewhat longer. 
Staminodes about 16. Ovary conical densely hairy ; stigma glabrous, 
with 4 deep oblong truncate lobes. Fruit 1 in. in diam., nearly twice 
as much across the calyx, sub-globose, deeply immersed in the large 
thickened calyx, its apex truncate-concave ; seeds 4 or 5. D. macro- 
phylla, Wall. Cat. 4141 ( not of Blume). D. undulata, Wall. A. DC. 
Prod. VIII. 233 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 216 (in part ) ; 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 23, and For. PI. II. 135 (in 
vart) ; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 568. 
Penang: Curtis 1085; Ridley 7174. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.), 
974 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3636. Perak : Scortechini 1976 ; Wray 2535, 
2865. King’s Collector 2966, 2982, 4058, 6779, 7459, 7619, 10123. 
Kedak : Curtis 2594. Selangor : Ridley 2748, 8544. 
This is the plant issued by Wallieh as No. 4141 of his Catalogue under the name 
D. macrophylla. Being different from the older D. macropliylla of Blume, a new 
name had to be found for it. This was done by De Candolle, who reduced it, as a 
variety, to Wallieh’s D. undulata with the type specimen of which in Wallich’s own 
herbarium it does not agree. De Candolle was followed by Hiern, Kurz, and 
Clarke ; we now restore it to specific rank. The true D. undulata, Wall., is a Burmese 
species. It is found also in the Andaman Islands, but it has not as yet been collected 
in Malaya. 
21. Diospyros argentea, Griff. Notul. IV. 288 (1854). A tree 15 to 
50 feet high ; young branches about as thick as a goose-quill, covered with 
sub-deciduous yellowish silky hairs. Leaves large, coriaceous ; oblong, 
apex acute, base rather abruptly cuneate or rounded; upper surface 
warm brown when dry, glabrous and shining, the midrib depressed ; 
lower densely covered with yellowish adpressed sericeous hair, the 
midrib very stout ; main-nerves invisible on both surfaces ; length 6 to 
10 in.; breadth 1-65 to 3-5 in.; petioles -1 to -25 in. Male flowers in 
somewhat supra-axillary few-flowered shortly pedunculate spike-like 
cymes 1 to 1'25 in. long (peduncle included) ; bracts ovate -2 in. long. 
Calyx -25 in. long, deeply 4-lobed, villous. Corolla • 35 in. long, 
tubular, lobed half-way down, very villous outside. Stamens 20 to 24. 
Female flower solitary on a peduncle -2 in. long ; calyx campanulate, 
•5 in. long, with ovate lobes. Corolla -65 in. long. Staminodes 4 to 5. 
Ovary 4-eelled, 8-ovuled, densely hairy ; styles 4, erect, hairy. Fruit. 
ellipsoid, apiculate, 2 to 2'5 in. long and 1 to 2 in. in diam., densely rusty- 
tomentose ; the calyx persistent, its lobes enlarged, broad, very coria- 
ceous, shortly hairy. Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 262 ; 
Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 569. D. discolor, Wall. Cat. 4131 
(not of Willd.). 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3625; Maingay (K.D.) 968, 970; Goodenough 
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