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fruit, accrescent in fruit. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, 
tubular, with 4 short erect ovate lobes, quite glabrous. Staminodes 
about 12, flattened, villous behind. Ovary conical, densely rusty- 
tomentose. Stigma glabrous, short, with 8 small lobes. Fruit in 
cymes, depressed-globular, 1 to 1-25 in. in diam., much exceeding the 
minutely reticulate calyx, glabrescent, minutely tuberculate. Seeds 
compressed. 
Perak : King’s Collector 4106, 4361, 4889, 5769, 8242, 8357; 
Scortechini ; Ridley 3079, 10302 ? 
The leaves of this in texture and reticulations much resemble those of D. Toposia, 
Ham. The flowers and inflorescence are, however, different from those of that 
species. 
25. Diospyros oleifolia, Wall. Cat. 4128 (1829). A tree; young 
branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, almost black when dry, 
sparsely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; narrowly oblong to 
elliptic, sub-acute or acute, the base cuneate ; upper surface pale 
olivaceous, glabrous, shining ; the lower yellowish, dull, for the most 
part glabrous, but usually with sparse adpressed black detachable 
hairs near the midrib and base ; main-nerves invisible on either 
surface ; midrib strong on the lower surface, slightly depressed on 
the upper, length 6'5 in. ; breadth 2 in. ; petiole -25 in. long. 
Male cymes on axillary peduncles about -3 in. long, each bearing 3 
unequally pedicellate flowers -5 in. long ; all very dark in colour and 
with black hairs like those on the outer surface of the calyx. Calyx 
•4 in. long, tubular-campanulate, densely adpressed rusty-tomentose 
inside, cut half-way down into 4 triangular erect lobes. Corolla 
tubular, slightly longer than the calyx, very thick, densely tomentose 
like the interior of the calyx ; its lobes 4, very thick, oblong, spreading 
slightly. Anthers attached near the base of the tube, 16, linear- 
lanceolate, sessile. Female flowers on longer panicles than the males ; 
pedunculate calyx with 4 triangular acute lobes, velvety outside, tawny - 
tomentose inside. Fruit depressed-globose, 1'35 in. in diam. ; the 
pericarp woody, glabrous when ripe, tawny-tomentose when young, 
the persistent calyx at its base thick, woody, nearly 1 in. in diam., 
with dark tomentum outside. A. DC. Prod. VII. 132 ; Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLI., Pt. II. 72, id. XLVI., Pt. II. 235, 
and For. FI. II. 132 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 204 ; 
Clarke in Hook fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 567. 
Penang : Curtis 1573. Perak : King's Collector 3876 ; Scortechini. 
— Distrib. Burma, Java. 
26. Diospyros brachiata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous tree 
