83. EBENACER. 71 
papyracea, rhomboideo-obovata, 1-3 poll. longa, obtusa, basi 
attenuata, supra glabrescentia, subtus secus costam venasque 
plus minus pubescentia, reticulato-venosa. Flores . . . Fructus 
solitarius, pedunculatus, pedunculo gracili circiter pollicari, 
spheroideus, 7-8 lineas diametro, glabrescens, mucronatus ; 
semina?; calyx auctus, 4-partitus, segmentis rigide coriaceis 
oblongis 8-9 lineas longis obtusiusculis obtusis multinerviis. 
CurKrAwG: Ningpo hills (Faber!) Herb. Kew. 
Specimen eommunicated by Mr. Ford numbered 259, 1887. 
This is nearest D. sinensis, Hemsl, which has straighter 
branchlets, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and broadly ovate calyx- 
lobes. 
le 8. Diospyros ($ Gunisanthus ?) sinensis, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Arbor parva vel frutex, ramulis fructiferis gracillimis rectis 
minute pubescentibus nigrescentibus. Folia decidua ?, brevissime 
petiolata, subcoriacea, oblongo-lanceolata, 14-3 poll. longa, 
obtusa, glabrescentia, venis inconspicuis. Flores... Fructus 
solitarius, graciliter pedunculatus, pedunculo circiter polli- 
cari, spheroideus vel ovoideus, 8-9 lineas longus, glabrescens ; 
semina ? ; calyx accrescens, 4-partitus, segmentis coriaceis ovatis 
circiter 6 lineas longis obtusis venosis. 
Szecuven: Mount Omei at 4000 feet (Faber !). Herb. Kew. 
Nearly allied to D. rhombifolia, Hemsl., but differing in its 
dark hue, narrower leaves, and broad calyx-lobes. 
9. Diospyros vaccinioides, Lindl. in Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 139; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1549; Hiern, Monogr. in Trans. Cambr. 
Phil. Soc. xii. p. 230, n. 104, partim et excl. hab. Ind. Or. 
Rospidios vaccinioides, A. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 220; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
p. 210; Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me série, v. p. 227 ; Seem. Bot. Voy. 
* Herald,’ p. 397. 
Hoxakowa (Champion! Wright! Millett! Hance: Seemann ! 
and others). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
[Dr. Bretschneider (Early Res. p. 102) states that ebony, 
Maba Ebenus, Spreng. =M. elliptica, Forst., seems to be produced 
in China; and as the tree in question inhabits Cochin China, it 
may also occur in the south of China Proper, or the Chinese 
ebony may be the product of a different tree. 
Euclea herbacea, Lour. (Fl. Cochineh. p. 639), does not 
to this Order, and is doubtfully referred by Hiern (Trans. 
Phil. Soc. xii. p. 106) to the Euphorbiacee. ] 
belong 
Cambr. 
