CEET 
Diospyros. | XC. EBENACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 557 
cordate ovate accrescent soon glabrous. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 234; Hiern in 
Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii, 188. D. calycina, Bedd. Fi. Sylv. t. 68, and Ic. Pl. 
Ind. Or. t. 123. 
Suevacuerry Hints and CoumrALzLUM ; Wight.  TiwNEvELLY Dis - Beddome. 
A middle-sized tree; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 4 by 3-1} in., base 
euneate or obtusely rhomboid, shining, coriaceous; primary nerves oblique, indistinct, 
reticulating nerves prominent on both surfaces; petiole I-lin. Male fl.: cymes 2 in., 
lax, soon glabrescent, pedicels 3-4 in.; calyx $ in., lobed half-way down; corolla 
4 in., shortly 4-lobed ; stamens 12-16, somewhat hairy. Female ft. solitary, peduncles 
A in.; corolla nearly as in the male; ovary 4-celled, cells l-ovuled. Fruit $ in. 
diam., globose, squamose, glabrescent; fruiting calyx foliaceous, lobes $ in. long and 
broad, cordate-ovate acute. 
12. D. ovalifolia, Wight Ic. t. 1227; leaves elliptic or oblong cuneate 
or subobtuse at both ends glabrous, flowers sessile clustered, corolla urceolate 
glabrous without. Thwaites Enum. 181; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 
297 ; Bedd. For, Man. 143. 
Borg Deccan PENINSULA ; Coimbatore and Nilgherries, Wight; Anamallays and 
Tinnevelly Hills, Beddome. CEYLON, alt. 2-4000 ft., Moon, Thwaites. 
A middle-sized tree; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 5 by 2} in., coriaceous, nerves 
ultimately distinct; petiole 4 in. Male fl. 3-6 together, clusters minutely pilose ; 
calyx 75 in., wide-campanulate, lobes ji in., deltoid, hairy on both sides; corolla }-} 
in., tubular-campanulate, lobes 4-5 less than half the length of the corolla, ovate ; 
stamens 13-20, glabrous. Female fl. 2-6 together, resembling the males but rather 
broader; staminodes 0-7; ovary hairy 4-6 celled (2-celled, fide Wight); style 2-3- 
lobed. Fruits 1-3 together, $ in. diam., subsessile, globose, glabrate, usually 1-seeded ; 
lobes of the fruiting calyx } by } in., reflexed, thick, ferruginous-tomentose on both 
sides. Albumen equable. 
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13. D. nigricans, Wall. Cat. 6351 ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 
glabrous, male flowers subsessile, calyx-lobes small ovate, corolla tubular nearly 
glabrous without. .4. DC. Prodr. viii. 239; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 
xii. 207 ; Bedd. For, Man. 144. 
Knas Mms.; H.f.d T. Suner; Wallich. 
A tree, attaining 50 ft. ; branchlets subpersistently grey-pubescent. Leaves 34 by 
li in. base broad-cuneate, often turning black in drying, chartaceous hardly coria— 
ceous ; primary nerves slender, indistinct, oblique, reticulating nerves distinct ; petiole 
iin. Male fl. 3-6 together; calyx-tube very short, lobes 4, A in., sparsely pilose; 
corolla ; in. deeply lobed. Female fl. unknown. Fruit solitary, subsessile 4 by } in., 
ellipsoid, glabrous, 4-celled ; fruiting calyx divided nearly to the base, blackish ; lobes 
4 by } in., ovate or elliptic, foliaceous, nearly flat and glabrous. 
14. D. variegata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 73; leaves large 
broadly oblong acute glabrous, male flowers in very short sparingly pubescent 
cymes, corolla salver-shaped nearly glabrous without. Hiern in Trans. Camb. 
Phil Soc, xii. 203; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For, FL ii. 
137. 
Assam; Jenkins. Precu and Marranan; alt. 0-1000 ft., not infrequent, Kurz. 
A tree, attaining 70 ft. (Kurz); glabrous. Leaves 74 by 24-31 in., base cuneate 
or subobtuse, coriaceous ; primary nerves oblique strong, reticulating nerves distinct; 
petiole 4-4 in. Male fl.: cymes 3-8-flowered, crowded; calyx i in., 4-lobed more 
than half-way down, lobes elliptic minutely pubescent; corolla-tube + in., narrowed 
upwards, lobes 4} in., ovate, subacute, patent; stamens about 16, anthers glabrous.— 
In an Assam fruiting example (n. 275 Herb. Kew); peduncle } in.; fruit solitary 
2 in. djam., globose, ferruginous-villous; calyx-lobes 4, 2 by 4 in., auriculate, ferru- 
ginous-pubescent within. This was matched with Kurz's male examples of D. 
variegata by the leaves, apparently correctly by Hiern, who nevertheless hesitated to 
