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Diospyros.] XC. EBENACE®. (C. B. Clarke.) . 568 
larger, 1 in. long and broad, with a distinct tube; corolla as of the male. Fruit 3 
by 4 in., oblong cylindric, glabrescent ; fruiting calyx very slightly enlarged.— Female 
flowers and fruit here are described from Griffith’s examples; but by Hiern from 
Maingay's n. 972 female (see next species). 
31. D. decipiens, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate glabrous, female 
flowers sessile solitary, calyx 4-partite, lobes foliaceous margins hardly reflexed 
little hairy, corolla salvershaped tube 4-gonal densely fulvous-silky. D. 
flavicans, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 205, as to the female plant 
partly. 
Maracca; Maingay (n. 972, female only). 
Closely resembling D. flavicans female, and taken as part of it by Hiern. 
Female calyx (shortly after flowering); lobes 4 in. and upwards, ovate acute, with 
scattered fulvous hairs or nearly glabrous, tube 0 or obscure. Fruit 1 in., cylindric, 
glabrous ; fruiting calyx unchanged.—This does not show the bracts conspicuous in 
every example of D. flavicans. Helfer’s n. 3640, from Tenasserim, a very poor 
specimen with young male buds, might be the male of D. decipiens, or D. flavicans as 
proposed doubtfully by Hiern. Helfer’s n. 423, doubtfully referred here by Hiern 
Le, has totally different leaves and is quite distinct, may be D. lucida, Wall. 
32. D. stricta, Rorb. Hort. Beng. 40, and FI. Ind. ii. 539; leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate acuminate sparsely pilose beneath, male fl. subsessile in small 
clusters, corolla salvershaped tomentose without, fruit ellipsoid glabrous nar- 
rowed at the base. Wall. Cat. 4121; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 232 ; Hiern in Trans. 
Camb. Phil. Soc. xii, 201 ; Kurz in Journ, As, Soc, 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. 
Fi. ii. 197, as to descript. only. 
East Bencat; Silhet and Comilla, Roxburgh (Hort. Cale.); (Griffith, Kew Distrib. 
n. 3624). 
A tall slender conical tree with straight trunk (Roxburgh); branchlets soon 
glabrous. Leaves 3 by 1} in., base obtuse, ultimately glabrous above except the 
midrib, coriaceous ; primary nerves oblique not prominent, secondary obseure; petiole 
1 in. Male fl. 3-6 together; bracts A in., numerous, ovate; calyx j5 in., deeply 
obed, lobes ovate apiculate; corolla-tube } in., narrowed upwards, lobes 4, 4 in., 
ovate; stamens 14-16, glabrous. Female fl. unknown. Fruit 1} by 3-1 in., solitary ; 
peduncle 4 in. ; fruiting-calyx small, lobes } in. long and broad, ovate. 
Secr. VI. Melonia (Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii, 146, in chief 
rt). Leaves alternate or subopposite. Flowers 4—5-merous; male cymose or 
warn female solitary or faseicled. Calyx deeply lobed or tubular-campanu- 
late, often much larger dissimilar in the female. Corolla in the bud ovoid- 
tubular, densely fulvous- or rufous-sericeous without. Albumen ruminated 
(where known). 
* Leaves when mature more or less hairy beneath, male flowers distinctly 
cymose with tubular-campanulate calyx. 
33. D. Tupru, Buch-Ham. Journ. i, 183, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 
112, not of Hiern; leaves (not large) elliptic obtuse at both ends reticulating 
nerves raised on the upper surface, male fl. cymose, calyx short-cylindrie, corolla 
yellow-woolly without, female solitary short-peduncled with 4—5-gonal calyx. 
D. rubiginosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 385; A. DC. Prodr. viii, 239. D. exsculpta, 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142, syn. excl. not of Ham. D. melanoxylon, Hrern 
in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 159, tn great part, 
West Deccan PENINSULA ; from the Conean to Mysore, Hamilton, Be, JUBBUL- 
PORE; Griffith. 
A small tree; branchlets woolly. Leaves 34 by 2 in. (rarely so large even when 
mature), alternate and subopposite, base mostly rounded or subcordate, or if "od 
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