522 LXXXI, EBENACE® (HIERN). [ Diospyros. 
shortly ferruginous-pubescent, 2-celled; cells 1-seeded; seeds % in. 
long ; albumen not ruminated. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter ! 
8. D. squarrosa, Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. p. 184. 
A tree or much-branched shrub; young shoots delicately hispid, vir- 
gate; branches glabrescent, terete. Leaves elliptical or somewhat 
obovate, thinly coriaceous, rounded at both ends or sometimes narrowed, 
with scattered patent pubescence or subglabrescent subnitescent 
above, paler with patent pubescence rufous and denser on the midrib 
and lateral veins beneath, patent, delicately reticulated, 14-31 by 
2 in. ; petiole 3,1 in. long, pubescent. Male flowers unknown. Female 
flowers axillary, solitary, drooping, tetramerous ; peduncles recurved, 
2-4 in. long, patently pubescent ; bracts caducons, at about the middle 
of the peduncle, lanceolate, 43, in. long. Calyx covered with short ap- 
pressed tawny hairs on both sides, loosely’ hemispherical, } in. long, 
with 4 deep oval or ovate lobes. Corolla 4-partite, openly cup-shaped 
or rotate, nearly glabrous, but with scattered pale appressed hairs out- 
side aloug the middle of the lobes ; lobes reflexed, about 4 in. long, 
obtuse. Staminodes 0, Ovary glabrous, somewhat 4-sided, 4}, in. 
high, 8-celled, 8-ovuled ; styles 4, glabrous, bifid to about the middle, 
not persistent. Fruit glabrous, somewhat 4-sidedly globular, about 
% in. diam; fruiting calyx with pendent lobes, not accrescent. 
Mozamb. Distr. River Zambesi at Senna (left bank) and Rivoque near Tette, 
January, local name “‘Mutshenje tuna tuna,” Sechuana dialect, Kirk / Senna, in 
hedges near water-courses, Peters / 
9. D. Loureiriana, (7. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. p- 89 (1887). A 
shrub of 2-8 ft, ora small’ tree ; young parts and inflorescence shortly 
glandular-pubescent and scattered with pilose hairs. Leaves oblong 
or obovate-oblong, more or less acuminate at the apex, obtuse, rounded 
or subcordate at the base, submembranous, weakly pubescent on the 
veins and ciliate on the margins when young, glabrescent, 3-4 by 
3-24 in. ; petiole 7~2in. Flowers subhermaphrodite or polygamous, 
drooping, } in, long ; cymes axillary, glandular-hairy, 3-many-flowered ; 
peduncle }—2 in, long, twice the length of the pedicels, bearing ovate 
cordate bracts at the apex. Calyx green, + in. long, more or less 
accrescent ; lobes 4, deltoid, yp in. long, valvate in gstivation. Corolla 
urceolate, white, deeply 4-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Stamens 8, in one 
row, lanceolate, inserted at the base of the corolla, subsessile, pilose, 
abortive in female flowers. Ovary shortly tomentose or puberulous, 
8-celled or abortive, globose or ovoid-conical ; styles 4 or style 4-lobed. 
Fruit globose, 1 in. diam., puberulous or glabrate, 4-celled. Seeds 4, 
3 in. long ; albumen not ruminated ; embryo + in. long; cotyledons 
narrow, rather longer than the radicle. Fruiting peduncle strong, 
4-4 in. long ; pedicels 4 in. long.— Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 194. D 
Lotus, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 226 (1790); neque Linn. nec Blanco. 
There are two forms of thig species, as follows :—- P 
%. macrocalyx, Hiern in Trimen, Journ, Bot., 1875, p- 855. Calyx much a 
