EL Ub rer irri 
Diospyros. ] XC. EBENACE®. (C. B. Clarke.) 559 
first by short slits laterally near the apex of the cells. Albumen ruminated or 
equable. 
18. D. sylvatica, Roxb. Cor. Pl. i. 37, t. 47, and FI. Ind. ii. 537 ; leaves 
elliptic or oblong narrowed at both ends nearly glabrous secondary nervation 
indistinct, male fl. in small cymes, corolla short urceolate glabrate without, 
female solitary. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 231, excl. var. B; Thwaites Enum. 178; 
Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 121, and For. Man. 143; Hiern in Trans, Camb. Phil. 
Soc. xii. 161, not of Wal. 
Deccan PeNiNsULA from the CrgcAns and Bompay to CEYLON. 
A medium-sized tree. Leaves 44 by 2 in., minutely pubescent beneath or glabrous, 
drying black; petiole 4 in. Male fl. in cymes 3-1 in. long; calyx-lobes A in., 
rounded, minutely hairy; corolla +, in., loved half way down; stamens 13-22, 
glabrous or sparsely pilose; anthers ovate, dehiscing by a short slit near their apex, 
connective produced lanceolate. Female fl. on peduncles 1-3 in., 4-3-merous; calyx- 
lobes } in., ovate-oblong ; corolla 1—3 in. ; staminodes 4; ovary 6-8-celled; styles 3, 
bifid. Fruit 4 in. diam., globose, nearly glabrous; fruiting calyx accrescent, lobes 
spreading, foliaceous, glabrous, nearly flat, striate. Seeds 2-8, albumen ruminated. 
19. D. ehretioides, Wall. Cat. 4137 ; leaves large elliptic base obtuse 
nearly glabrous reticulating nervation prominent, male fl. in small cymes, corolla 
urceolate glabrate without, females solitary. .4. DC. Prodr. viii. 231; Hiern 
in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 162; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 234, 
and For. Fi. ii. 129. 
Throughout British BIRMA, frequent.—DrsTRIB. Ava. 
A tree, attaining 70 ft. Leaves attaining 11 by 64 in., base rounded or rarely 
rhomboidal, nearly glabrous when very young, pale (brown when dried) beneath ; 
petiole 2 in. Flowers nearly as in D. sylvatica, the males rather larger ; anthers ovate- 
lanceolate, similar to those of D. sylvatica, and similarly dehiscing by a lateral slit 
from the apex of the cell, which is in this species produced more than half-way down 
the cell. Fruit 1-14 in. diam., globose, smooth. 
20. D. Kurzii, Hiern in Trans, Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 162; leaves elliptic 
shortly acuminate glabrous, primary nerves slender distinct very close, female 
fl. 2-8 together in short-peduncled cymes, corolla-lobes cinereous-tomentose on 
both sides. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 235, and For. Fl, ii. 231. 
ANDAMAN Isrps.; frequent, Kurz. Nicopars; Kamorta, Kurz. 
A tree, attaining 60 ft. (Kurz); branchlets pubescent. Leaves 31 by 11 in., base 
cuneate, drying black, midrib depressed above; petiole 1-4 in. Male fl. unknown. 
Female fl. 4-merous ` peduncles ZA in., pubescent, bracts small, linear, deciduous ; 
calyx 4; in., lobes deep, elliptic glabrous or nearly so; corolla 3} in., short-campanu- 
late, lobes deep, oblong-ovate ; staminodes 4 glabrous; ovary glabrous except at the 
apex, 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled; styles 2, erect, slender, hairy, long, base connate. 
Berries globular, size of a small cherry, smooth, 4-celled, 4-seeded ; albumen equable. 
Kurz says that the style is simple thick. 
21. D. microphylla, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 218, and For. Man. 145; 
leaves small ovate-oblong cuneate at both ends glabrescent except the midrib 
beneath, flowers axillary subsessile, calyx-lobes ovate. D. buxifolia, Hiern in 
Trans, Camb, Phil. Soc. xii. 218. D. vaccinioides, Wall. Cat. 4130, as to Penang 
and Singapore examples ; Hiern l. c. 230, as to allthe Malay examples, not of Lindl. 
Leucoxylum buxifolium, Blume Byd. 1169; Choisy Mém. Ternstr. p. 48, t. 2. 
Canara, Mysorr, BAnABOODUN and ANaMALLAY Hirs; Gibson, Beddome, Ze. 
Maracca; Maingay, n. 966, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3643), Walker, Se, PENANG 
and Singapore, Wallich.— Distrib. Java, Borneo. 
A large tree; branchlets in the Malay glabrescent, in the Malabar subpersistently 
hirsute. Leaves 1} by 3-5 in., glabrous above, coriaceous, nerves obscure; petiole is 
