94 Ebc7iaCCCe. [Diospyros, 



boats. Wood rather heavy, moderately hard, white, with very Httle dark 

 brown heart-wood, used for building, but inferior. 



4. I>. Toposia,* T/rtw. zV? Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 115 (1827). Kaha- 

 kala, Kaluwella, S. 



Thw. Enum. 179. C. P. 191 1. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 556. Wight, Ic. t. 416 (Z>. racetnosa). Bedd. Ic. PI. 

 Ind. Or. t. 122 (not good). 



A moderate-sized tree with numerous branches forming a 

 dense rounded head, bark dark grey-brown, rather smooth, 

 thick, young parts glabrous ; 1. numerous, distichously spread- 

 ing, persistent, large, 4-8 in., oval or lanceolate, acute or 

 rounded at base, acuminate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, 

 rather coriaceous, venation closely reticulate, translucent, 

 prominent on both sides when dry, bright green, paler be- 

 neath, petiole f-| in,, stout, channelled ; fl. on short ped., 

 male cymes small, pedunculate, axillary or from the year's 

 growth below the 1., fem. usually solitary, buds globose, 

 apiculate ; cal. pilose, completely closed in bud and irregu- 

 larly splitting into 2-4 acute segm. ; cor. ovoid-urceolate, 

 lobes 4, short, acute, spreading ; stam. about 32, rather un- 

 equal, fil. very short; staminodes (in fem. fl.) 12-16; ov. hairy, 

 4- (rarely 6-) celled, stigmas 4, short; fruit i-if in., ovoid- 

 globose, with a scurfy pubescence easily removed, enlarged 

 cal. rather small ; seeds 4, oblong-ovoid, very slightly com- 

 pressed. 



Moist region to 3000 ft. ; rather common. Singhe Raja Forest ; 

 Hantane; Rakwane ; Balangoda. Fl. May; white. 



Also in E. Bengal and Burma. 



The timber is without coloured heart-wood. The leaves are easily 

 recognised by the very distinct and close reticulate venation. 



5. D. Ebenum, Kwnii: in Lund Physiogr. Salsk. Hand!, i. 176 

 (1776). Kaluwara, S. Karunkali, T. 



Linn. f. .Suppl. PI. 440. Retz. Obs. Bot. v. 31. Moon Cat. 74. D. 

 Ebenastcr, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 529 (non Retz.). Thw. Enum. 180. Hiem, 

 Mon. 208. C. P. 1912. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 558. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 65. 



A large tree, with an erect trunk and dense leafy head, 

 bark dark grey, finely longitudinally cracked, young parts 

 sparsely adpressed, pubescent ; 1. numerous, spreading dicho- 

 tomously, 2-4 in., oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 rounded at base, usually somewhat acuminate, obtu.se or 

 rounded at apex, glabrous, bright green and shining above, 

 paler beneath, rather thick, venation reticulate pellucid, petiole 

 \ in. or le.ss ; fl. sessile, male in very shortly .stalked clusters 



* From the Bengali name. 



