Diospyros.] xc. EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 571 
Trans. Camb. Phil, Soc. xii, 184; Kurz in Journ, As. Soc, 1877, pt. ii, 236, and 
For, Fl. ii. 198. 
Upper Tenassermm ; Brandis,—Distris. Upper Birma. 
A tree; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 84 by 2} in., or wider (Kurz); primary 
nerves much raised beneath, oblique, secondary conspicuous, undulate; petiole ¢ in. 
Male fl.: cymes 0-4 in., densely fascicled, on the old wood or in the axils of the 
leaves; calyx 4 in. divided more than half-way down, rusty villous; corolla A in., 
narrowly tubular, lobes short obtuse ; filaments densely pilose, anthers and connec- 
tive glabrous. Female fl.: cymes 1 in, rusty pubescent ; bracts zy in. lanceolate ; 
pedicels 3-4 in. ; calyx and corolla nearly as in the male but rather larger ; staminodes 
5-8 ; ovary ovoid-conie, hairy, style hairy, stigmas 6-8 glabrous ; cells 6-10, 1-ovuled, 
septa at flowering time complete. 
VERY IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
D. cuanTACEA, Wall. Cat. 4135, partly ; glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or nar- 
rowly lanceolate acuminate, male fl. sessile in small clusters 4-merous, calyx elongate 
cylindric lobes ovate ciliate, corolla short lobes obtuse, stamens 16-20 in pairs, 
anthers hairy. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 232; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 230 ; 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 234, and For. Fl. ii. 129.—Martaban and Upper 
Tenasserim ; not uncommon, Kwrz.—Disrrie. Birma. 
Wallich has two sheets of this; the type is a male in very young bud with small 
narrow leaves ; the duplicate sheet is a male with medium large young flowers and 
broad- almost ovate-lanceolate leaves. It is very doubtful whether the two belong 
to the same species. Hiern has described the flowers from the duplicate sheet, while 
he says the leaves are 2-9} by 3-3 in. elongate lanceolate, which seems intended to 
cover both sheets of Wallich. Kurz finds Hiern’s plant “ not uncommon” in British 
Birma, but says the leaves are 4-5 in. long, ovate-oblong to oblong and oblong-lanceo- 
late; so that his plant can hardly be referred to the species of Wallich’s type sheet 
in which the leaves are uniformly small and narrow, running from 2j by j in. to 3à 
by 3 in. 
n ELEGANS, Clarke; leaves oblong acutely caudate fulvous-pilose on the nerves 
beneath, male cymes small on } in. peduncles, corolla with a few scattered hairs 
without or glabrate, calyx 3-partite. 
Kuasa Mrs.; Nunklow, alt. 3500 ft., Clarke. 
A small tree; branches persistently fulvous-hirsute. Leaves 5j by 13 in., obtuse 
at the base; primary nerves oblique; petiole à in. Male Jl. (exceedingly young) 
about 12 short-pedicelled in each me ; cyme sometimes 1j in. compound ; female 
unknown.—Supposed allied to D. microphylla, but may be a Muba. 
Var. Hookeri; shrubby, leaves less finely acuminate. D. stricta, Hiern in Trans. 
Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 201, partly, not of Roxburgh—Chittagong, Seetakoond ; 
H. f. & T.—This differs from D. stricta in the hirsute branches and peduncled male 
cymes. 
À D. arara, Wall. Cat. 4142 ; leaves alternate oblong narrowed at both ends obtuse 
glabrous, female flowers solitary subsessile, ovary fulvous-hispid, fruit globose sub- 
glabrous, fruiting calyx 5-fid pentagonal pubescent on both sides. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 
232; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 264.—Nipal ; Wallich. 
Hiern thinks Wallich’s fragmentary example may be D. lance@folia, Roxb. 
D. ortxensis, Wight; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 264; leaves alternate 
elliptic shortly obtusely acuminate base obtuse hairy at least on the midrib beneath, 
fruits solitary axillary subglobose, fruiting calyx deeply 4-fid hairy without.— 
Courtallum ; WigAt.—This looks like the female of D. stricta, Roxb. Why Wight 
named a Courtallum species orizensis does not appear. Hiern says that D. oricensis 
of Klein and Willd. (A. DC. viii. 230) is probably D. montana, Roxb., with which 
also Beddome agrees (For. Man. 148); but the short description of Willd. appears to 
fit Wight's examples of D. orixensis very well. 
D. PYRRHOCARPA, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 250, 583; shoots pubescent soon 
glabrescent, leaves elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate coriaceous densely reticulated, 
flowers solitary short-peduncled rufous-tomentose, berries size of a cherry depressed- 
globose rufous-orange-tomentose. Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 266 ; Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. Fl. ii, 136.— West Sumatra. 
