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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Fruit sessile, globular, from -75 to 1 in. in diam., densely covered with 
minute rufous tomentum, crowned by the short remains of the style 
and subtended by the small calyx with 5 broad reflexed lobes. 
Penang : Curtis 2221. 
Collected only in Penang. In leaves this resembles the Bornean plant named by 
Hiern Maba } cordata. The 5-eleft calyx of this is suggestive rather of Diospyros than 
of Maba. 
32. Diospybos kufa, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 60 to 80 feet 
high ; young branches about half as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, 
glabrous, brown and rough when dry. Leaves alternate, thickly coria- 
ceous ; oblong- elliptic, sometimes oblanceolate, the apex shortly and 
bluntly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; upper surface warm 
brown when dry, glabrous, very shining ; the lower dull, glabrous or 
slightly puberulous towards the base ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, 
spreading, little curved, interarching near the slightly incurved edges, 
slightly prominent on the lower surface and somewhat depressed on the 
upper when dry; length 5'5 to 7‘5 in., breadth 1-75 to 2-25 in.; petioles 
•4 to ’6 in., stout, channelled. Male and female flowers unknown. Fruit 
glohular-ovoid, blunt, l - 25 to 1'5 in. long and about 1 - 15 in. in diam., 
densely rusty-tomentose. Calyx at base flat, 4-angled, '4 in. in diam., 
rusty-tomentose. 
Pebak : King’s Collector 3330, 4945, 5409, 6712. 
33. Diospybos aeeolata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 60 
feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous 
becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, very coriaceous ; oblong, sub- 
acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces glabrous except the puberulous 
midrib and sometimes the main-nerves, hepatic-brown when dry ; the 
upper shining, minutely and faintly areolate ; the lower dull and boldly 
areolar-reticulate ; midrib bold on the lower surface, slightly depressed 
on the upper ; main-nerves about 7 pairs, curved, ascending abruptly, 
faint on the lower surface, almost invisible on the upper ; length 4'5 to 
6 in.; breadth 1*5 to 1‘75 in.; petioles - 5 or - 6 in. Male floivers (only 
buds seen) under '5 in. in length, collected near the ends of the branches in 
tomentose cymes "5 to 1 in. long. Calyx coriaceous, on a thick pedicel 
shorter than itself, ovoid in bud ; the mouth with triangular short 
teeth. Corolla like the calyx, but glabrous and fleshy. Stamens about 
21 ; anthers linear, apieulate, nearly uniform, sub-sessile or on short 
broad flat filaments, sometimes slightly attached in groups of 3. Female 
flower probably solitary, much broader than the $. Calyx velvety 
outside and inside, divided nearly to the base into 4 ovate-triangular 
very acute lobes '4 in. long. Corolla fleshy, glabrous, - 6 in. long, its 
