Maba. | LXXXI, EBENACEH (HIERN). 517 
ments short ; ovary rudimentary, glabrous. Female flowers 3-5 toge- 
ther, 4-3 in. long, on very short puberulons pedicels ; calyx 4 in. long 
or after the fall of the ‘corolla } in. long, campanulate, lobes wide or 
cordate at the base; corolla not always isomerous with the calyx, 
deeply lobed, lobes spreading or recurved, oval-ovate, obtuse; sta- 
minodes 3-4, glabrous ; ovary glabrous, ovoid-conical, 6-celled ; ovules 
solitary ; style tridentate; fruiting calyx lax, not accrescent.. Fruit 
subglobose, about 4 in. diameter, glabrous, glossy, bearing the remains 
of the style at the apex. Seeds 1 or few; albumen uniform. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, 5-6,000 ft. alt., Schimper! Beccari! 
6. M. quiloénsis, Hiern, Munogr. Eben. p. 182. A glabrous 
shrub; branches terete, silvery-ashy ; youngest shoots green. Leaves 
(rather young) oval, rounded at both ends or slightly cordate at the 
base, thin, dark-coloured on both sides in the dry state, 1-2} by 
3-1} in. ; lateral veins inconspicuous ; petiole very short. Male flowers 
unknown. Female flowers subsessile, 3-1 together, nearly black in the 
dry state, apparently rather precocious. Calyx 7, in. long, glabrous, 
with 3 ovate lobes which extend two-thirds down the calyx. Corolla 
unknown, Ovary glabrous, ovoid-conical, 6-celled ; ovules solitary ; 
style tridentate, glabrous, just exceeding the calyx. 
Mozamb. Distr. Quiloa, Kirk! 
4, DIOSPYROS, Dalech.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 665, 
Calyx usually campanulate and 4—5-lobed, rarely 3- or 6-lobed, often 
accrescent in fruit. Corolla tubular or campanulate or rotate, usually 
4-5-lobed ; lobes usually spreading or recurved. Stamens 6-00 , usually 
about 16 and more or less united by their base in pairs or otherwise, 
inserted at the base of the corolla or hypogynous, in female flowers 0 
or usually fewer than in the male and abortive ; anthers linear or lan- 
ceolate ; filaments usually shorter or almost obsolete. Ovary globose 
ovoid or conical, 4. or 8-celled, glabrous or hairy, in male flowers rudi- 
mentary ; styles or style-branches 2-4; stigmas usually emarginate ; 
ovules solitary. Fruit globose oblong or conical, coriaceous or thin- 
skinned, often pulpy inside and edible. Seeds 1-8, oblong or hemi- 
spherical or globose ; albumen uniform or ruminated.—Trees or shrubs, 
with alternate shortly petiolate leaves, and usually small axillary soli- 
tary or shortly cymose flowers. 
A genus of 172 species, widely scattered over the tropics and 
Mel One species occurs at Delagoa Bay, none in other parts 0 
frica except the following. 
Albumen of the seeds ruminated. ; 
me oblong or oval or somewhat obovate. Fruit sub- 
globose, not polygonal nor verrucose. i ili 7 
ves usually obleng. glabrescent, thinly coriaceous . 1, D. mespiliformis. 
Leaves usually broadly oval, somewhat tomentose oF 2. D. platyphylle. 
puberulous beneath, firmly coriaceous . + + ° 3. D. an 5 
Leaves ovate-oblong. Fruit roundedly 4-sided, verrucose % % 
warmer parts of the 
f the continent of 
