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XXIII. MALVACEAE. 
[Dario. 
appeared to be male, the female parts abortive. A very small 
fruited variety with only one carpel and one seed occurs, and a 
large form with an increase of carpellary whorls, the fruit being 
open at the top and containing a second abortive fruit surrounded 
by the normal seeds of the outer carpels, “ Durian Gajah ” of the 
Malays. The species occurs also on the Malay islands, but whence 
its origin is doubtful. 
(2) D. malaccensis Planch, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 351; Becc. 
Malesia, iii. 237, t. xii. figs. 6 to 8 ] King, l.c. 51; Masters, Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 501, t. xiv. figs. 17 to 20. 
Fig. 26. — Durio malaccensis. 
A big tree. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, acute, base 
sub-acute or rounded; nerves 20 pairs, slender, visible on both 
surfaces, thinly coriaceous, above smooth, beneath covered with 
peltate scales, 5*5 to 7 in. long, 1*5 to 1*8 in. wide; petioles thick, 
•5 in. long, scaly. Peduncles *5 to 1 in. long, angled bearing 2 to 3 
flowers on 1 in. pedicels. Flowers white, 2-5 in. long. Bracts 2, 
ovate, 1 in. long, acute. Sepals 5, ovate-oblong, scaly, 1 in. long. 
Petals linear-oblong, 2-5 in. long, -5 in. wide, pubescent with 
scattered scales outside. Stamens forming a tube, branching into 
5 phalanges of several compound filaments free above and bearing 
a cluster of anthers, shorter than the petals. Style densely woolly. 
Fruit green with numerous processes. Hob. Forests, Malacca, 
Batu Tiga (Derry, Griffith). Negri Sembilan, Triang Forest 
