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minute reticulations, each lobe 1'25 long and nearly as wide. Dalz. & 
Gibs. Mora Bombay, 141 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. cxxv, and FI. Sylv. 
Madr. cxliv; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 190; Clarke in 
Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 570. 
Perak: King’s Collector 7637, 8163. 
The scanty specimens from Perak are in fruit only, but the leaves and fruit agree 
so well with those of D. paniculata — a species hitherto known only from the west of 
the Indian Peninsula — that, in spite of the anomalous geographical distribution, we, 
temporarily at least, refer the Perak specimens to that species. 
28. Diospyros Kunstleri, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 
40 feet high ; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, large, thickly membranous ; elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 
acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces, -when dry, olivaceous-brown, 
the lower rather darker than the upper, somewhat shining, faintly 
reticulate ;■ main-nerves 8 to 12 pairs, much curved, spreading, ascend- 
ing, and forming wide arches ‘25 in. from the edge, prominent on the 
lower surface like the midrib, somewhat depressed on the upper ; length 
8 to 12 in., breadth 3'5 to 4 - 5 in. ; petioles "25 to - 35 in. Male flowers 
unknown. Female flowers in short axillary and extra-axillary puberu- 
lous cymes, nearly 1 in. long, pedicellate ; bracts narrow, nearly as long 
as the pedicels, oblong. Fruit in short stout cymes (unripe) depressed- 
globular, crowned by the short remains of the style, with 4 or 5 vertical 
ridges, everywhere densely rusty-tomentose, subtended by the accres- 
cent almost woody calyx, with 4 deep reniform-cordate apiculate erect 
undulate lobes. 
Perak : King’s Collector 4343, 7633, 8229. 
29. Diospyros nutans, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub or small 
tree 8 to 16 feet high ; young branches less than one-third as thick as a 
goose-quill, deciduously villous, the older much thicker with deeply 
channelled dark-coloured, sub-glabrous bark. Leaves alternate, thinly 
coriaceous ; oblong or sub-oblanceolate-oblong, apex shortly caudate- 
acuminate, the base rounded ; both surfaces brown when dry, the upper 
glabrous, the lower puberulous, but often villous on the prominent 
midrib ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curved, ascending, interarching near 
the margin, the reticulations distinct ; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 1-5 to 
2-25 in. ; petiole - 15 in. Cymes umbellate, few-flowered, borne on the 
apices of slender slightly supra-axillary flexuous puberulous peduncles 
much longer than the leaves (often twice as long) ; bracteoles few, small, 
lanceolate, concave. Male flowers in different cymes from the females, 
•5 in. long, on short pedicels less than -1 in. long. Calyx puberulous, 
campanulate, with 5 long lanceolate lobes. Corolla four times as long 
