520 LXXXI. EBENACEX (HIERN). [ Diospyros. 
peduncle ; fruiting peduncles stout, thickened upwards with a wide 
articulation at the apex, nearly } in. thick, puberulons or subglabrate, 
3-2 in. long, patent. Fruiting calyx subtomentose-puberulous on both 
sides, spreading, 4-fid, 4, in. diam., with depresso-deltoid lobes slightly 
recurved at the apex. Fruit oblong or globose, pulpy, roundedly 4- 
sided, verrucose, at length smoother, with pale ferruginous short pu- 
bescence between the raised warty prominences, bluntly umbonate at 
the apex, 1-1} in. long by §-1 in. across from one side to the opposite 
side, 4-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds 3-2 in. long, enclosed in a thin 
chartaceous envelope, transverse section a quadrant of a circle of 
radius 4, in., showing several intrusions of the testa into the albumen 
corresponding with the depressed lines on the exterior of the seed ; 
embryo nearly straight, nearly the length of the seed ; radicle superior, 
much shorter than the compressed 1-8-nerved cotyledons. In one 
case the calyx was triangular and flat. The pulp of the fruit is eaten. 
Mozamb. Distr. Prov. Zanguebar, Kirk! Zambesia, Rovuma River, 20 miles 
above the mouth, Kirk / 
4. D. batocana, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 174. A large bush, 
quite or nearly glabrous except the buds and inflorescence ; branches 
dark-ashy. Leaves oval-oblong, more or less rounded at both ends, 
firmly coriaceous, shining above, whitish beneath, glabrous or with 
few minute black sete beneath, with reflexed margins and veins in 
delicate relief on both sides, 2-21 by 3-1 in.; petiole }-} in. long, 
angular, wrinkled, often twisted or recurved. Male flowers clustered, 
several together, sessile, on fuliginous—and ferruginons-hispid nodules 
of the branches of the previous season; bracts at the base of the calyx. 
Calyx fuliginous- and ferruginous-hispid on both sides, 5-lobed at the 
apex. Corolla faliginous-hispid outside, pale and glabrous inside, d- 
cleft, crass, ovoid; lobes obtuse. Stamens 12-16 (?), glabrous, 
unequal ; filaments short. Ovary represented by ferruginous hairs. 
Female flowers unknown. 
South Central. Batoka Country, Setoka, fruit eaten, Kirk! 
5. D. senensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot.i. p. 183. A shrub 
from 10 ft. to a tree of 30 ft.; branches terete, pale-ashy or reddish ; 
young shoots yellowish-pubescent. Leaves obovate-oblong, suddenly 
narrowed or acuminate or occasionally rounded at the apex, wedge- 
shaped or nearly rounded at the base, membranous, subglabrescent and 
deep green above with depressed midrib, somewhat yellowish-pubescent 
or subglabrescent beneath, 2-7} by 1-31 in.; petiole hairy, po 
Jong. Inflorescence axillary, in short 1—5-flowered cymes, yellowish- 
pubescent ; peduncles ;';-} in. long; bracts small, caducous, at the 
base of the very short pedicels; flowers dicecious, occasionally sub- 
hermaphrodite or polygamous, greenish-yellow, fragrant. Calyx tubn- 
lar, subtruncate or with 4 short rounded lobes at the apex, }-3 in. long; 
hairy on both sides, somewhat accrescent. Corolla tubular, about twice 
thelength of the calyx, 4-cleft, glabrous except a hairy line outside down 
the middle of each of the oblong obtuse lobes, Stamens 16,in pairs, gia- 
