478 EBENACEZ (Hiern). [ Diospyros. 
tawny, or black-purple, edible, sparingly pulpy within, 3-1 in. in 
diam. ; pulp gummy, very viscid ; seeds 1-8, solitary in the cells, 
3-2 in. long; testa glossy outside, somewhat intruded into the 
white cartilaginous albumen; embryo straight ; cotyledons linear- 
lanceolate, longer than the radicle ; fruiting calyx somewhat or but 
little accrescent, adpressed to the base of the fruit or spreading, 
4-i In. in diam., somewhat pubescent outside, with wavy or sub- 
auriculate lobes. Aliph. DC. Prodr. viii. 672; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Aethiop. 85, 273; Hiern in Trans..Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 165, and 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 518; Schweinf. Piante Utili dell Eritrea, 
41,48; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 46, 50, 56, 66, 
131,148; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 651, D. senegalensis, 
Perrott. ex Alph. DC., l.c., 234, 672. D. bicolor, Klotzsch in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. i. 184. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; Crocodile Poort, near Barberton, Pauling 
in Herb. Galpin, 1354 ! 
Eastern Kxeion ;: Portuguese East Africa; between Lourengo Marques and 
Komati River Drift, Bolus, 7847 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
2. D. rotundifolia (Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soe. xii. 181) ; 
young parts puberulous ; branches pallid-ashy, glabrescent ; branch- 
lets leafy; leaves alternate, obovatc-rotund, rounded at both 
ends, coriaceous, glabrous, $—-1} in. long, ;2;-14 in. broad, incon- 
spicuously veined beneath; petioles ;3,—+ in. long; peduncles 
axillary, solitary, crowded, in the upper axils, 1-flowered, pu- 
berulous, recurved, j4-+ in. long; bracts caducous; flowers 
dicecious. Male flowers glabrous, about * in. long; calyx hemi- 
spherical-campanulate, about 3 in. long; lobes 5, shallow, apiculate ; 
corolla 5-fid; lobes oval, spreading; stamens about 30, nearly equal, 
glabrous ; filaments short, straight, inserted in one row on the 
glabrous receptacle; anthers about 3 in. long; ovary 0. Female 
flowers: calyx acerescent, undulate, exceeding the young fruit 
and then 3 in. long and broad, shortly 5-lobed at the apex but 
appearing 5-fid and 5-winged from folding of the calyx-tube; 
styles 5, connate at the base, j; in. long, glabrous; stigmas 
bifid; young fruit depressedly globose, } in. long, glabrous, 8- 
celled ; ripe fruit globose, umbilicate at the apex, shining, {—-1 in. 
in diam. ; fruiting calyx patelliform, 3-1 in. in diam., ;,—} in. high, 
with a raised edge at the top, plicate ; seeds compressed, } in. long, 
about + in. broad; albumen not ruminated. Parmentier in Ann. 
Univ. Lyon, vi. fase. ii. 131; not of Lesquer. Cretac. Fl. 89, t. 6, 
Jig. 6. 
Eastern ReGion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes, 34! Owen ! 
Orper LXXXV. OLEACEZ, 
(By W. H. Harvey, with additions by C. H. Wrieut.) 
Flowers mostly bisexual. Calyx inferior, 4- to many-lobed. 
Corolla regular, gamopetalous and 4- to many-lobed, rarely poly- 
