Diospyros. | LXXXI, EBENACEZ (HIERN), 523 
cent ; lobes in fruit foliaceous, broadly ovate, not reflexed.—D, macrocalyx, Klotsch in 
Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. p. 182, non Alph; DC. 
Mozamb. Distr. Senna, native name “ Nhamodéma,” the roots are used to 
clean and dye teeth red, Peters! Kirk! Rovuma River, also between Laputa aud 
Tette, and Quiloa, Kirk s 
B. heterotricha, Welw. ex Hiern in Trimen, J. c. Calyx moderately acerescent ; 
lobes in fruit subfoliaceous, ovate-oblong, at length usually reflexed.  Pilose hairs 
more abundantly scattered than in a, macrocalyx. Inflorescence shorter, _ 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! Burton! (native name M'biebi); Angola, 
Golungo Alto, fruit edible, Welwitsch ! . 
A specimen from Sierra Leone, gathered by Afzelius, may possibly belong to the 
second form. . 
10. D. Dendo, Welw. ex Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 195, t. x, An 
evergreen leafy tree of 25-40 ft., valuable as timber ; wood very black 
and hard in the middle; trunk 1-2 ft. diameter; branches terete, 
smooth, dark-ashy, glabrescent ; young parts shortly and closely tawny- 
pubescent. Leaves elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, somewhat or 
scarcely wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous or submembranous, 
rather shining,. darker above, glabrescent or the midrib and sometimes 
also the 45 pairs of slender lateral veins puberalous on both sides, 
2-54 by 1-22 in.; midrib depressed on the upper surface, slender ; 
lary veins transverse, very slender ; petiole 3+} in. long, pubernlons. 
orescence axillary or slightly supra-axillary, abbreviated, s ortly 
and closely tawny-pubescent ; flowers dicecious, 5-6-merous, clustered, 
Several together, 3-4 in. long; pedicels very short. Calyx campanu- 
ate, somewhat turbinate, shortly and closely tawny-pubescent on bo 
sides, cleft or in the female more deeply lobed, accrescent ; lobes ovate. 
Corolla glabrous or nearly so ; tube short, campanulate-funnel-shaped ; 
lobes in, long, oval, obtuse, reflexed in the male, erect or spreading 
in the female. Stamens 20 or 24, exserted, inserted in two rows at 
€ Open mouth of the corolla-tube, equal or subequal, 0 in the female 
plant ; anthers linear, erect, hairy, sessile or subsessile ; pollen globular, 
Smooth. Ovary glabrous, obtusely conical, 4-celled, bilobed at wi 
4pex,in male flowers rudimentary ; style 0; stigmas 2, Com Eres ; 
with thin margins ; ovules solitary. Fruit subglobose, gla rous, 
shining , black-purple, 2 in. diameter. Fruiting calyx rather spreading, 
1. 2 in. diameter ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, about 3 in. ong, 
rather plicate at the base. Seeds 2, subhemispherical, } in. — 
albumen uniform ; embryo +} in. long, nearly straight ; radicle lic 
long, bent near the upper end.—Dvospyros (sp.), Welw. Syn. *P . 
P. 10 (1862) ; native name, “ Dendo” ; compare also Welw. Apont. p. 
952 (1859), 
0 Ww ds el- 
ll. D. Kirkii, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. p. 199, A tree homellerni 
ashy glabrescent branches ; young shoots pee in ds. coria. 
Puberulons, Leaves oval or oval-oblong, rounded at ere ee lich tly 
Ceous, above velvety-puberulous rather’ shining pind =. off edpib 
Veins, below velvety-pubescent tawny with rai 
