ec cs nts Nc Rat 
Diospyros. ] LXXXI. EBENACEE (HIERN), 52] 
brous, partly inserted at the base of the corolla and partly hypogynons, 
0 in female flowers. Ovary glabrous ?, 8-celled, rudimentary in mole 
flowers, occasionally 5-celled in subhermaphrodite flowers. Fruit soli- 
tary, glabrous (but hairy around the base of the style), acorn-shaped, 
1 by $ in., half enclosed in the subtruncate shortly pubescent calyx. 
Albumen of the seeds uniform. 
2 Upper Guinea. Abbeokuta, Irving! Barter! Niger Expedition at Eppah, 
arter J , 
Mozamb. Distr. Senna, Peters ! Zambesi and Shire, Kirk! Meller ! 
6. D. tricolor, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 183, t. v. fig. 1. A much- 
branched shrub of 2-4 ft. high or a small tree; branches terete, ferru- 
ginous-tomentose, diverging, sometimes flexuous, procumbent. Leaves 
distichous, elliptical, obtuse at both ends, with few (3-5) inconspicuous 
teral veins, green and glabrescent above, white-silky with the midrib 
and margin often ferruginous beneath, 1-3 by 2-2 in., the young ones 
silvery-silky on both sides ; petiole ;4—} in. long, shortly and closely 
pubescent. Flowers clustered 4-1 together, axillary, tetramerous, dice- 
“lous, silky-pubescent, sessile. Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft; lobes ovate, 
acute, not or but little accrescent. Corolla tubular in the male (more 
dilated in the female), 3 times the length of the calyx, subcoriaceous, 
¢ in, long, 4-cleft ; lobes rather acute, erect. Stamens 6-8 or more, 
p equal ; filaments pubescent below ; anthers. subulate, abortive in 
female flowers, Ovary ovoid-conical, silky, in male flowers rudimen- 
tary. Fruit solitary, ovoid-conical, acute, glabrous except near the 
apex, obsoletely 4.sided, 1-1} by 4-2 in., 2-4-seeded. Fruiting calyx, 
in, diam., spreading. Seeds ? in. long, enclosed in a papery enve- 
Ope ; albumen white, uniform.—Noltia tricolor, Schum. et Thonn. 
skr, Guin. Pl, p. 189. . 
Upper Guineg. Guinea, native name “Aumbe,” Zhonning! Cape Coast, 
Brass) N iger Expedition, at Lagos, Barter / 
7. D. Barteri, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 187. A shrub with young 
shoots rufous-hispid or afterwards fuscous-hispid ; older branches 
dark, terete, glabrate. Leaves oval-ovate, acuminate, apiculate, at 
© base cordate, firmly subcoriaceous, dark green and glabrous except 
on the depressed midrib, and with depressed veins above ; paler with 
hispid-pilose ferruginous hairs, especially on the veins beneath, 2-3 by 
~lt in, 3 petioles hispid, qo—} in. long. Male flowers unknown. Fe- 
male flowers solitary, subsessile, axillary, with acicular rafous-hispid- 
Pilose Caducous bracts. Calyx +} in. long, rufous-hispid-pilose, 
‘Partite, with linear-lanceolate lobes, somewhat spreading in flower 
and subhorizontal not accrescent in fruit, hispid inside. Corolla conica 
in bud and as long as the calyx, ferruginous-hispid outside, glabrous in- 
Side, 5-fid ; lobes acute. Staminodes 11, short, in one row oyrpmnl 
©xcept 1 pair), pilose. Pistil conical; ovary glabrous peepee : apex, 
4-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles 2, bilobed at the apex, pilose : ow as 
22g as the young ovary. Fruit oblong-conical, 1 in. rong, & a ga 
(except the apex), shining, with remains of the styles where it j 
