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tube wide with staminodes like the anthers of the $ but not so 
numerous ; limb about as long as the tube, with 4 deep, broad, sub- 
quadrate spreading lobes. Ovary ovoid-conic, densely rusty-pilose. 
Stigmas 4, oblong, fleshy, glabrous. Fruit unknown. 
PeeAk : Scortechini 476 ; King's Collector 5813. 
34. Diospybos Cubtisii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; young 
branches rather thicker than a goose-quill, rugulose and dark-coloured 
when dry, glabrous. Leaves alternate, thinly membranous ; oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, base rounded or slightly 
cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous, the upper olivaceous when dry, the 
lower brown ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, faint 
on both surfaces ; the midrib prominent on the lower surface, slightly so 
on the upper ; length 2’5 to 5 in., breadth l - 25 to 2 in. ; petioles - 2 in. 
Male flowers not seen. Female flowers - 25 in. long, in extra-axillary or 
axillary fascicles of about 3 on the younger branches ; pedicels about 
■2 in. long, cinerous-pubescent, each with 2 oblong obtuse bracteoles at 
its base, about - 5 in. long. Calyx coriaceous, nearly - 2 in. broad at the 
base, deeply divided into 4 triangular-reniform glabreseent lobes. 
Corolla partially glabrous, about as long as the calyx, salver-shaped; 
tube short ; limb divided into 4 deep, broadly ovate, spreading lobes. 
Staminodes about 4, linear-lanceolate, compressed. Ovary narrowly 
oblong, tapering into the short thick style, densely tawny-tomentose. 
Fruit unknown. 
Pulau Poongah : Curtis 2942. 
35. Diospyeos glomebulata, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 40 to 
60 feet high ; young branches rather thicker than a crow-quill, densely 
clothed with minute rufous pubescence. Leaves membranous, alternate; 
elliptic, shortly and bluntly apiculate, the base rounded or slightly 
cuneate ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, glabrous ; the lower 
brown, puberulous, midrib bold ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, slightly 
curved, ascending ; length 2-25 to 3 '5 in., breadth l - 25 to l - 75 in. ; 
petiole about -1 in. Male flowers -2 in. long, crowded in dense sessile 
axillary and extra-axillary globular capitules '4 in. across. Calyx sessile, 
campanulate, tomentose, deeply divided into 4 broadly triangular sub- 
acute erect lobes. Corolla tubular, tetragonous, thick, about as long as 
the calyx ; tube glabrous, the 4 lobes pubescent outside, oblong. 
Stamens 8, separate. Anthers broadly lanceolate, apiculate, filaments 
short. Female flowers and fruit not known. 
Pekak : King’s Collector 8590. 
The following description of a Diospyros from Pahang is taken from 
Ridley’s account of the Flora of the Eastern Coast of the Malay 
Peninsula. 
