covered with black pubescence, few-flowered, collected on extra-axillary or axillary tubercles, sometimes forming small panicles, consisting mostly of flowers, and often with only a few ?, with many oblanceolate blunt bracts 25 to 3 in. long, and some smaller bracteoles; branches of the cyme striate when dry. Calyx 15 in. long, divided to its base into 4 broadly ovate undulate lobes. Corolla in bud cylindric, tetragonous at the base; about 4 in. long, tomentose, deeply divided into 4 narrowly elliptic blunt lobes. Stamens about 16 in 2 rows, united into a tube, the anterior row smaller than the posterior, all narrow and apiculate, the filaments short, and hairy. Female flowers like the ♂ as to calyx, but with corolla somewhat longer and with about 12 flat staminodes. Ovary ovoid-conic, tomentose, attenuated into a long style. Stigma with several small lobes; ovary 8-celled. Fruit when ripe ovoid-globular, 1 to 1.25 in. in diam., glabrescent, subtended by the accrescent calyx with large reticulate undulate lobes. Seeds compressed, oblong. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 571. D. frutescens, Hassk. Pl. As. Rar. 467 (not of Blume).

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3620. PERAK: Scortechini 1765; King's Collector 8261.-DISTRIB. Java.

Specimens of this sent from Herbarium Koordersianum, Buitenzorg, have pentamerous flowers; but in other respects they do not differ from the Perak specimens in Herb. Calcutta.

24. DIOSPYROS TOPOSIOIDES, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous tree 15 to 40 feet high, sometimes only a shrub; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. Leaves alternate, coriaceous; oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate or acute, base rounded; edges slightly recurved when dry; both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, minutely but distinctly reticulate, the upper shining, the lower darker and dull; midrib channelled on the upper surface, strong and prominent on the lower; main-nerves 16 to 20 pairs, spreading, little-curved, interarching far from the edge, the intermediate nerves nearly as prominent; length 7 to 11 in.; breadth 2 to 4 in.; petiole 3 to 4 in. long, stout, wrinkled when dry like the midrib. Male flowers 25 in. long, on pedicels longer than themselves, in cymose axillary panicles about 1 in. in length. Calyx coriaceous, glabrous, campanulate, with wide truncate entire or sub-entire mouth. Corolla slightly exceeding the calyx, ovoid, inflated below, contracted to the 4-toothed apex. Stamens numerous, linear, slightly auricled at the base, filaments very short. Female flowers when in bud 3 in. long, conical. Calyx acutely 4-angled in bud; the 4 lobes deltoid, very coriaceous, puberulous outside, rusty-tomentose inside like the ovary and young

fruit, accrescent in fruit. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, tubular, with 4 short erect ovate lobes, quite glabrous. Staminodes about 12, flattened, villous behind. Ovary conical, densely rustytomentose. Stigma glabrous, short, with 8 small lobes. Fruit in cymes, depressed-globular, 1 to 1.25 in. in diam., much exceeding the minutely reticulate calyx, glabrescent, minutely tuberculate. Seeds compressed.

PERAK: King's Collector 4106, 4361, 4889, 5769, 8242, 8357; Scortechini; Ridley 3079, 10302 ?

The leaves of this in texture and reticulations much resemble those of D. Toposia, Ham. The flowers and inflorescence are, however, different from those of that species.

25. DIOSPYROS OLEIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 4128 (1829). A tree; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, almost black when dry, sparsely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, alternate; narrowly oblong to elliptic, sub-acute or acute, the base cuneate; upper surface pale olivaceous, glabrous, shining; the lower yellowish, dull, for the most part glabrous, but usually with sparse adpressed black detachable hairs near the midrib and base; main-nerves invisible on either surface; midrib strong on the lower surface, slightly depressed on the upper, length 6.5 in.; breadth 2 in.; petiole 25 in. long. Male cymes on axillary peduncles about 3 in. long, each bearing 3 unequally pedicellate flowers 5 in. long; all very dark in colour and with black hairs like those on the outer surface of the calyx. Calyx 4 in. long, tubular-campanulate, densely adpressed rusty-tomentose inside, cut half-way down into 4 triangular erect lobes. Corolla tubular, slightly longer than the calyx, very thick, densely tomentose like the interior of the calyx; its lobes 4, very thick, oblong, spreading slightly. Anthers attached near the base of the tube, 16, linearlanceolate, sessile. Female flowers on longer panicles than the males; pedunculate calyx with 4 triangular acute lobes, velvety outside, tawnytomentose inside. Fruit depressed-globose, 1.35 in. in diam.; the pericarp woody, glabrous when ripe, tawny-tomentose when young, the persistent calyx at its base thick, woody, nearly 1 in. in diam., with dark tomentum outside. A. DC. Prod. VII. 132; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLI., Pt. II. 72, id. XLVI., Pt. II. 235, and For. Fl. II. 132; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 204; Clarke in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 567.

PENANG: Curtis 1573. PERAK: King's Collector 3876; Scortechini. -DISTRIB. Burma, Java.

26. DIOSPYROS BRACHIATA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous tree

20 to 40 feet high; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves alternate, coriaceous; elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, the base slightly cuneate or rounded; upper surface pale olivaceous when dry, lower pale brown; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, curved, ascending, prominent like the midrib on the lower surface, depressed somewhat on the upper; length 5.5 to 9 in.; breadth 1.5 to 2.5 in.; petioles 3 to 5 in. Male flowers about 5 in. long. Calyx 2 in. long, campanulate, divided almost to the base into 5 ovate-acute erect lobes, each folded vertically along the midrib so as to form a deep dorsal groove, everywhere minutely rusty-tomentose. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, narrowly tubular; the tube 5-angled, externally divided, the 5 lobes twice as long as the tube, linear-oblong, contorted in æstivation, the external half of each lobe tawny-tomentose, the inner half and the whole of the anterior surface glabrous. Stamens 14, linear, apiculate, sub-sessile. Female flowers 4 in. long, collected in compound umbellate axillary cymes 1-5 to 1-75 in. long and about as much across, the branches compressed, rusty-puberulous, spreading, bearing a few oblong obtuse bracts; flower-pedicels varying in length from 1 to 2 in., bibracteolate. Calyx fleshy, tomentose outside, deeply divided into ovate-acuminate erect grooved lobes. Corolla tubular, tomentose outside, glabrous inside, very thick, deeply divided into 4 oblong lobes. Staminodes about 8, lanceolate, flattened. Ovary ovoid, tapering into a short style, tomentose. Fruit depressed-globose, puberulous, 75 to

9 in diam., and about the same from below the calyx to the somewhat concave apex; calyx woody, thick, 1 in. wide, with triangular deeply grooved sub-acute lobes.

PENANG: Curtis 1453, 1454, 10230.

27. DIOSPYROS PANICULATA, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. IV. 109 (1852). A tree 50 to 70 feet high; young branches less than half as thick as a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, alternate; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and bluntly apiculate or acuminate ; the base cuneate or rounded; both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, the reticulations minute and distinct, especially on the glabrous upper surface; main-nerves 5 to 8 pairs, curving upwards and forming arches far from the edge, bold like the midrib on the lower surface and slightly depressed on the upper; lower surface softly pubescent; length 4 to 7.5 in., breadth 1.65 to 2.5 in.; petiole 25, stout, channelled, pubescent. Male and female flowers not seen. Fruit in lax racemoid cymes, ellipsoid, crowned by the small remains of the style, rufoushirsute when young, ultimately glabrous, 1.5 in. long and 1 in. in diam.; the accrescent calyx at its base with 4 large broadly ovate membranous lobes with many vertical nerves and numerous distinct

minute reticulations, each lobe 1.25 long and nearly as wide. Dalz. & Gibs. Flora Bombay, 141; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. cxxv, and Fl. Sylv. Madr. cxliv; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. XII. 190; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. 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, ascending, 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 puberulous cymes, nearly 1 in. long, pedicellate; bracts narrow, nearly as long as the pedicels, oblong. Fruit in short stout cymes (unripe) depressedglobular, crowned by the short remains of the style, with 4 or 5 vertical ridges, everywhere densely rusty-tomentose, subtended by the accrescent 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 caudateacuminate, 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

as the calyx, narrowly tubular, slightly constricted at the throat, hairy outside, glabrous inside; the limb with 5 deep oblong lobes. Stamens 10, linear-elliptic, apiculate, inserted in the bottom of the tube, 5 sessile and 5 with filaments. Female flowers shorter than the 3, with small filamentous staminodes. Ovary narrowly ovoid, densely rufoushirsute, attenuated into a long pubescent style crowned by 5 short glabrous reflexed small stigmas. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, sparsely hairy, 6 to 1 in. long and 5 in. in diam., crowned by the persistent style and subtended by the non-accrescent calyx. Seeds few, narrowly ellipsoid.

PERAK: Scortechini 674, 1678; King's Collector 378, 2675, 2987, 3573, 7087.

Differs from all the other Malayan species by its long peduncled pendulous inflorescence.

SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN.

30. DIOSPYROS REFLEXA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 50 to 70 feet high; young branches as thick as a goose-quill, covered with a layer of minute deciduous rusty pubescence. Leaves alternate, thickly coriaceous; oblong to elliptic, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate; upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower pale brown, both minutely reticulate; main-nerves 8 to 10 pairs, spreading, interarching ∙15 in. from the slightly recurved edges; length 5 to 7.5 in., breadth 1.75 to 3 in.; petiole 4 or 5 in. Flowers unknown. Fruit hemispheric with depressed truncate apex, under 1 in. in diam.; the calyx embracing the very base of the fruit with 4 fleshy much reflexed revolute triangular fleshy lobes, densely rusty-tomentose like the fruit. PERAK: King's Collector 7676, 7747.

The curious fleshy calyx with much-reflexed lobes distinguishes this from all the other Malayan species.

31. DIOSPYROS PENANGIANA, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree 20 to 30 feet high; young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, covered with deciduous hair of two sorts, namely, a uniform coat of minute rusty tomentum with long rusty bristle-like hairs protruding through it. Leaves alternate, coriaceous; oblong, shortly and bluntly acuminate, narrowed below the middle to the rather broad auriculately cordate base; upper surface when dry pale brown, shining, glabrous except the puberulous depressed midrib; lower surface reddish-brown, transversely reticulate, with pubescence like that of the young branches on the stout midrib and 10 to 14 pairs of ascending rather straight main-nerves, otherwise glabrescent; length 5.5 to 7.5 in., breadth 1.25 to 2.25 in.; petioles 15 to 2 in. long, hispid. Male and female flowers unknown.