Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 225 
20 to 40 feet high ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill. 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, 
the base slightly cuneate or rounded ; upper surface pale olivaceous 
when dry, lower pale brown; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, 
ascending, prominent like the midrib on the lower surface, depressed 
somewhat on the upper ; length 5'5 to 9 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2 - 5 in. ; 
petioles - 3 to - 5 in. Male flowers about ■ 5 in. long. Calyx -2 in. long, 
campanulate, divided almost to the base into 5 ovate-acute erect lobes, 
each folded vertically along the midrib so as to form a deep dorsal 
groove, everywhere minutely rusty-tomentose. Corolla twice as long as 
the calyx, narrowly tubular ; the tube 5- angled, externally divided, the 
5 lobes twice as long as the tube, linear-oblong, contorted in {estivation, 
the external half of each lobe tawny-tomentose, the inner half and the 
whole of the anterior surface glabrous. Stamens 14, linear, apiculate, 
sub-sessile. Female floioers - 4 in. long, collected in compound umbellate 
axillary cymes l - 5 to 1'75 in. long and about as much across, the 
branches compressed, rusty-puberulous, spreading, bearing a few oblong 
obtuse bracts ; flower-pedicels varying in length from ’1 to -2 in., 
bibracteolate. Calyx fleshy, tomentose outside, deeply divided into 
ovate-acuminate erect grooved lobes. Corolla tubular, tomentose 
outside, glabrous inside, very thick, deeply divided into 4 oblong lobes. 
Staminodes about 8, lanceolate, flattened. Ovary ovoid, tapering into a 
short style, tomentose. Fruit depressed-globose, puberulous, ’75 to 
•9 in diam., and about the same from below the calyx to the somewhat 
concave apex ; calyx woody, thick, 1 in. wide, with triangular deeply 
grooved sub-acute lobes. 
Penang : Curtis 1453, 1454, 10230. 
27. Diospybos paniculata, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. IV. 109 
(1852). A tree 50 to 70 feet high ; young branches less than half as thick 
as a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, alternate ; 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly apiculate or acuminate ; 
the base cuneate or rounded ; both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, 
the reticulations minute and distinct, especially on the glabrous upper 
surface ; main-nerves 5 to 8 pairs, curving upwards and forming arches 
far from the edge, bold like the midrib on the lower surface and 
slightly depressed on the upper ; lower surface softly pubescent ; length 
4 to 7‘5 in., breadth 1-65 to 2 - 5 in.; petiole -25, stout, channelled, 
pubescent. Male and female flowers not seen. Fruit in lax raeemoid 
cymes, ellipsoid, crowned by the small remains of the style, rufous- 
hirsute when young, ultimately glabrous, 1'5 in. long and 1 in. in 
diam. ; the accrescent calyx at its base with 4 large broadly ovate 
membranous lobes with many vertical nerves and numerous distinct 
