Diospyros. | LXXX1, EBENACEZ (HIERN). 519 
Fruit subglobose, 4-1 in. diameter or rather larger, glabrate, often 
slightly wrinkled, 4~5-seeded, edible. Seeds shining, 4-2 in. long; 
albumen somewhat ruminated. Fruiting calyx somewhat or but little 
increased, with undulated margins, appressed to the fruit or spreading. 
—Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 672. D. seneyalensis, Perrottet ex Alph. 
DC. Le, p. 234. D. bicolor, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamb. Bot. i. p. 184. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Leprieur! Lelievre! Roger! Whitfield ! 
Daniell s (“Monkey Guava”); Cape Coast, Brass’; Niger Expedition, at Nupe, 
Barter! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Ant. Petit ! Nubia, Kotschy ! Sennaar, Cien- 
kousky ; Gallabat, Schweinfurth! Dinka-land (native ebony) and Bongo-land (a 
favourite fruit), Schweinfurth, “Heart of Africa,” English edition, vol. i. pp. 155, 221. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto (native name, Musolveira) and’ Bumbo, also 
Congo at Ambriz, Welwitsch! 
South Central. Matabili-land, 7. Baizes ! ; 
Mozamb. Distr. Near Lupata, Kirk! between Tette and the coast, Kirk! 50 
miles above Tette, Kirk ! Senna, Peters ! 
Occurs also in Yemen, Arabia Felix; see Hiern in Trimen, Journ. Bot., 1877, p. 98. 
This species is probably the plant mentioned by Perrottet, without description, 
under the name of Diospyros dioica (non Span.), Observ. Cult. Sénégal, in Annales 
Maritimes, Paris, 1831, p. 352. . 
The specimen in fruit without expanded leaves, from the island of Fernando Po, 
gathered by Th. Vogel, which was doubtfully referred to D. senegalensis, Perr., by 
Mr. Bentham in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 442, differs by the reflexed calyx, but I am 
unable to refer it to any species known to me. 
2. D. platyphylla, Welw. ex Hiern Monogr. Eben. p. 266. A 
moderate-sized tree, loosely and tortuously branched, angular and 
leafy towards the extremities ; young parts and inflorescence tomentose- 
pubescent, pale tawny or ferruginous ; bark glabrate, dark or ashy. 
aves subrotund oval or somewhat obovate, rounded or obtuse at the 
apex, rounded or obtuse often oblique at the base, firmly coriaceous, 
glabrescent and rather shining above, slightly tomentose or puberulous 
neath, inconspicuously reticulated, 3-6 by 14-33 in. ; petiole 3-3 in. 
long, robust. Flowers monstrous in the specimens, the inflorescence 
Consisting entirely of densely imbricated ferruginous-tomentose folia- 
Ceous scales. Fruit said to be edible. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, in woods, Welwitsch ! . 
The native name is ‘“ Musolveira,” the same as that of D. mespiliformis, Hochst., 
of which it may perhaps prove to be a monstrous aberrant form. 
8. D. verrucosa Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 167. A shrub ; 
branches numerous, at length glabrescent, terete ; young shoots densely 
and shortly pubescent, subferruginous. Leaves ovate-oblong, thinly 
Coriaceous, somewhat narrowed and mucronulate at the apex, rounded 
atthe base, nearly glabrous above except that the depressed midrib is 
Puberulous, paler with pale appressed pubescence beneath and rufous- 
Pubescent on the raised midrib and lateral veins, 14-3} by o 18 In. 5 
Veins about 6 on each side of the midrib; petiole y'o—5 7 ones 
ous, densely puberulous. Male flowersunknown. Female flowers 
7 .@Y> on distinct densely puberulous rather slender peduncles, the 
lary ; bracts small, rufous-hairy, caducous, near the base of the 
