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Description of Plate IV — 



1. Flowering branch with leaves. 



2. Panicle of flowers — natural size. 



3. A flower X 4. 



4. The ovary X 4. 



5. Fruit — natural size. 



RUABICE^. 



Canthium psrgracile, sp. nov. *' Palaga." Plate V. 



Leaves opposite, simple, entire, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, 

 narrowed to tha base, dark green, very glossy ; veins conspicuous 

 bnt distant ; size 2 to 3 inches by | to 1 inch ; petiole ^ to | inch ; 

 stipules small, acute. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, in axillary 

 cymes, ]0to20 together, yellowish-green, j inch long and broad, 

 pedicels slender, ^ inch loug. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes very short, 

 corolla campauulate, lobes 5, valvate ; reflexed ; throat villous. Stamens 

 5, alternate, with petal inserted between them, filaments short, anthers 

 large. Style very long, stigma large, capitate. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 

 ovule in each cell. Fruit a drupe, dark green and smooth, from | to 1 

 inch long and broad, and containing 2 hard pyrenes. 



A very graceful tall tree ; up to 80 feet high and 1| foot in diameter, 

 unarmed, found in the evergreen forests near Colatoorpolay at an 

 elevation of 500 feet or so. Flowers in February : fruit ripens in 

 August and September. 



Bark light brown, rather rough, J inch thick. No heart, wood pale 

 brown, straight grained, moderately hard. Pores small and numerous. 

 Medullary rays fine. Annual rings marked by dark lines about 16 to inch. 



Weight 48 lbs. per cubic foot. P. =- 870. 

 Description of Plate V — 



1. Flowering branch— natural size. 



2. Flower X 4. 



3. Ovary X 4. 



4. Section of fruit — natural size. 



5. Fruit — natural size. 



Ebenace^. 

 Diospyros hnmllis, sp. nov. " Velloi thuvarei." Plate VI. 

 Leaves simple, alternate, entire, narrowly elliptic, acuminate. 

 1 to 3 inches by | to 1 inch, glabrous above, veins indistinct. Petiole 



