Diospyros.] XC. EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) | 555 
few species somewhat hairy. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose. Seeds (where 
known) with equable albumen. 
6. D. montana, Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 37, t. 48, and Fl. Ind. ii. 538; leaves 
ovate or oblong pubescent or glabrous base cuneate or obtuse, male fl. in small 
cymes, calyx small deeply lobed, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 
16 glabrous. Wall. Cat. 4115, upper part of type sheet; Wight Ic. t. 1225; 
A. DC. Prodr. viii. 230; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 107 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
142; Bedd. For. Man. 143 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 220; Kurz 
in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 235; Brand. For. Fl. 206. D. cordifolia, Roxb. 
Cor. Pl. i. 88, t. 50, and Fi. Ind. ii. 588; Wall. Cat. 4116; A. DC. Prodr. 
viii. 230; Wight Ill. t. 148; Thwaites Enum. 178; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 190; 
Bedd. For. Man. 148. D. rugosula, Br. Prodr. 526 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 229. 
D. bracteata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 589; A. DC. l.c. 239. D. heterophylla, Wall. 
Cat. 4188; A. DC. l.c. viii. 280. D. sylvatica, Wall. Cat. 4117, not of Roxb. ; 
of A. DC. Prodr. viii. 231, as to var. 8 only. D. punctata, Dene in Nouv. Ann. 
Mus. d' Hist. Nat, ii. 467 ; A. DC. l.c. 230. D. Goindu, Dalz. in Hook, Kew 
Journ. iv. 111; Dalz. E Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 141. D. Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Reis. 
Pr. Waldem. 101, t. 55. 
From the HrwALAYA (from the Ravi eastward, Brandis) to CEYLON and TENASSERIM; 
common.—Distris. Birma, Malay Archipelago, Trop. Australia. 
A tree, often spinous ; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 23 by 1 in., base cuneate 
or cordate on the same branch, thin, nerves not elevated, though both primary and 
retieulating nerves often distinct ; petiole} in. Male fl.: cymes 1-1 in., pubescent 
or glabrescent; peduncles 0-3 in.; bracts go in.; calyx 1-4; in., lobes ovate; corolla 
1 in, shortly lobed. Female flowers solitary; peduncles i-i in.; calyx GZ in., 
deeply 4-fid; corolla nearly as of the male; staminodes 4-12; ovary 8-celled, cells 
l-ovuled. Fruit 4-14 in. diam., globose, glabrous; lobes of fruiting calyx 4-3 in., 
ovate, obtuse, foliaceous. Seeds 2-8; albumen not ruminated (Kurz says ruminated 
in the Pegu tree).—D. cordifolia has the female peduncles 1-1 in., the leaves and 
calyx subpersistently pubescent; D. montana has them glabrescent; Beddome main- 
tains the two to be distinet species. 
7. D. Lotus, Linn ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 228; leaves elliptic narrowed 
upwards membranous at first pubescent beneath, male fl. 2-3 together subsessile, 
calyx small lobed half-way down, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 
16 connective pilose. Lamk. IU. t. 858; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1079 ; Hiern 
in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc, xii. 223; Brand. For. Fl. 297, t. 36; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iv. 33. 
West PuwzAn; Hazara, alt. 38-6000 ft., Stewart. Wrst Kasumie and North of 
PrsHAWUR; not uncommon, Zrandis.—DisrRrB. West Asia. Cultivated in the 
Mediterranean Region, also (?) in Japan and China. 
Resembling D. montana; the leaves are larger (61 by 2 in. in Stewart's example). 
— Fruit much prized by the Affghan tribes” (Brandis) ; hence it may be questioned 
how far the tree is indigenous in India. 
8. D. Kaki, Linn. f. Suppl. 439; leaves ovate obtuse or narrowed at 
both ends pubescent reticulated beneath, male flowers in small cymes, calyx 
lobed deeply, corolla urceolate tube short glabrate lobes tomentose without, 
stamens 16 pilose. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 527; Grah, Cat. Bomb. Pl. 107 ; Wight 
Te. t. 415; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 229, excl. var. y, glabra ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. 
Phil. Soc. xii. 227-280, with fig. ; Ill. Hortic. 1871, 176, t. 78; Kurz in Journ. 
As. Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 233. D. chinensis, Blume Bid. 670. D. Schi-Tse, Bunge 
Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. 49. D. costata, Rev. Hortic. 1870, fig. at p. 133. 
D. Roxburghii, Rev. Hortic. 1872, tt. 28-29. Embryopteris Kaki, G. Don. Gen. 
Syst. iv. 41. 
