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Flora oj the Malayan Peninsula. 
covered with black pubescence, few-flowered, collected on extra-axillary 
or axillary tubercles, sometimes forming small panicles, consisting 
mostly of flowers, and often with only a few 2 , with many 
oblanceolate blunt bracts - 25 to "3 in. long, and some smaller brac- 
teoles ; branches of the cyme striate when dry. Calyx -15 in. long, 
divided to its base into 4 broadly ovate undulate lobes. Corolla 
in bud cylindric, tetragonous at the base ; about -4 in. long, tomen- 
tose, deeply divided into 4 narrowly elliptic blunt lobes. Stamens 
about 16 in 2 rows, united into a tube, the anterior row smaller than 
the posterior, all narrow and apiculate, the filaments short, and hairy. 
Female flowers like the $ as to calyx, but with corolla somewhat longer 
and with about 12 flat staminodes. Ovary ovoid-conic, tomentose, 
attenuated into a long style. Stigma with several small lobes; ovary 
8-celled. Fruit when ripe ovoid-globular, 1 to 1'25 in. in diam., glab- 
rescent, subtended by the accrescent calyx with large reticulate undulate 
lobes. Seeds compressed, oblong. Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 
571. D. frutescens, Hassk. PI. As. Ear. 467 (not of Blume). 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3620. Perak : Scortechini 1765 ; King’s 
Collector 8261. — Disthib. Java. 
Specimens of this sent from Herbarium Koordersianum, Buitenzorg, have pentamerous 
flowers; but in other respects they do not differ from the Perak specimens in Herb. 
Calcutta. 
24. Diospyros toposioides, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 
tree 15 to 40 feet high, sometimes only a shrub ; young branches 
rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, 
base rounded ; edges slightly recurved when dry ; both surfaces pale 
olivaceous when dry, minutely but distinctly reticulate, the upper 
shining, the lower darker and dull ; midrib channelled on the upper 
surface, strong and prominent on the lower ; main-nerves 16 to 20 pairs, 
spreading, little-curved, interarching far from the edge, the intermediate 
nerves nearly as prominent ; length 7 to 11 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; 
petiole -3 to -4 in. long, stout, wrinkled when dry like the midrib. Male 
flowers -25 in. long, on pedicels longer than themselves, in cymose 
axillary panicles about 1 in. in length. Calyx coriaceous, glabrous, 
campanulate, with wide truncate entire or sub-entire mouth. Corolla 
slightly exceeding the calyx, ovoid, inflated below, contracted to the 
4-toothed apex. Stamens numerous, linear, slightly auricled at the base, 
filaments very short. Female floivers when in bud -3 in. long, conical. 
Calyx acutely 4-angled in' bud ; the 4 lobes deltoid, very coriaceous, 
puberulous outside, rusty-tomentose inside like the ovary and young 
