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G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Malacca: Griffith, Maingay, No. 327 (Kew Distrib.). Singapore; 
Anderson, Hullet. Perak : Scortechini, Wray, King’s Collector. 
12. Dysoxylum griffithii, Hiern in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. I., 
549. A tree. Leaves 12 to 18 in. ; leaflets 9 to 13, membranous, alter¬ 
nate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate, glabrous, shining, 
(olivaceous when dry) ; main nerves numerous, spreading, indistinct on 
both surfaces, the midrib thin but slightly prominent on the lower; 
length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1 to 1*5 in., petiolules ‘1 in., Racemes from 
the axils of fallen leaves, '5 to 1'5 in. long, stout, minutely bracteolate. 
Flowers *25 in. long, their pedicels less than *1 in. Calyx nearly flat, 
very short. Petals 4, oblong, obtuse, puberulous outside. Staminal 
tube slightly shorter than the petals, cylindric ; its mouth with 8 broad 
shallow sub-emarginate teeth, puberulous outside ; anthers 8, ovate, 
their tips exserted. Disc shortly cylindric, crenulate, fleshy, longer 
than the ovary. Ovary sub-globular, 4-angled, minutely tomentose- 
lepidote, 3- to 4-celled. Style as long as the staminal tube, 4-angled, 
puberulous: stigma discoid^ with an annulus at its base. Fruit un¬ 
known. C. DC. in Mon. Phan. I., 497. Hartighsea ramiflora , Griff. No- 
tulae IV., 50J. 
Malacca, Griffith. 
This does not appear to have been collected since Griffith originally 
found it (1845) at Malacca. It is a very well-marked species, and 
Griffith’s original description of it is, in all respects except that of fruit, 
full and clear. 
13. Dysoxylum densiflorcjm, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV, 
9. A tree 20 to 40 feet high. Leaves unequally pinnate, 15 to 20 
in. long, their petioles and rachises angular, deciduously puberulous. 
Leaflets 11 to 13, opposite or alternate ; the terminal larger than 
the others; more or less obovate and with a longer petiolule ; lateral 
leaflets elliptic or elliptic-oblong, slightly oblique, acute or shortly 
acuminate, the base rounded or sub-cuneate and unequal, both sur¬ 
faces glabrous ; main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, curved, slightly 
prominent beneath ; length 4*5 to 7 in., the terminal 1 or 2 in. longer; 
breadth 2 to 2*5 in., the terminal sometimes 3 in.; petiolules '15 in., the 
terminal *75 to 1 in. Spikes in clusters from woody tubercles on the 
stem, 1 to 2 in. long, tawny-tomentose. Flowers (in bud only), about *15 
in. long, sub-globular, their pedicels slightly shorter with bracteole at 
the base. Calyx almost as long as the petals, campanulate, coarsely 
pubescent, its mouth with 4 large irregular teeth. Petals 4, free, slight¬ 
ly imbricate, sub-orbicular (in bud), the apex slightly indexed. Stami- 
nal-tube nearly as long as the petals, glabrous, widely tubular, 
divided almost to the base into 8 broad sub-truncate erose teeth; anthers 
