96 EbenacecB. [Diospyros. 



7. D. attenuata, Thw. Etiuin. 182 (i860). 



Thw. Enum. 182. Hiem, Mon. Eben. 182. C. P. 3478. 

 P'l. B. Ind. iii. 561. Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 139. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, young parts sparingly and 

 minutely strigose ; 1. 2-4^ in., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at base, caudate-acuminate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, 

 thin, lat. veins fine, close, not conspicuous, petiole very short; 

 fl. small, sessile, male in dense clusters of 3-8, female solitary, 

 much larger ; cal. strigose-hairy, segm. 4 or 5, lanceolate, 

 acute; stam. 4 or 5 ; ov. 4-celled, stigmas 2; fruit i| in., 

 ovoid, with an attenuate point, finely pubcrulous ; seeds 2 or 

 3, oblong, acuminate, dark brown, shining, endosperm equable. 



Moist low country; very rare. Only found at Hewesse, Pasdun 

 Korale, where it is exceedingly abundant in some of the forests. Fl. 

 Sept. ; pale green. 



Endemic. 



8. I>. acuta, Thw. Enum. 182 (i860). 



Thw. Enum. 182. Hiern, Mon. Eben. 182. C. P. 3476. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 561. 



A moderate-sized tree, buds adpressed-pubescent; 1. large, 

 5-12 in., narrowly lanceolate-oblong, rounded at base, gradually 

 attenuate, acute, glabrous or with a few strigose hairs beneath, 

 coriaceous, midrib thick, very conspicuous, channelled above, 

 lat. veins obscure, petiole i~ in., very stout, channelled above; 

 fl. sessile, with fulvous-hairy bracts, rather large, male in 

 axillary crowded clusters of 3-20, fem. solitary or very few; 

 cal. densely covered with adpressed fulvous hair, segm. 5, 

 deep, linear-lanceolate, acute ; cor. densely villous outside ; 

 stam. 4 or 5 ; fruit (.'' ripe) i in., ovoid, attenuate, pointed, 

 adpressed-pubescent becoming glabrous, cal. slightly enlarged ; 

 seeds 2 or 3, oblong, acuminate, endosperm equable. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Collected by Thwaites at Hewesse, 

 Pasdun Korale. Fl. Sept.; pale green. 



Endemic. 



Thwaites remarks that the fl. are sometimes monoecious, the fem. 

 clusters being towards the top of the branches, the male below. 



9. I>. Gardner!, Thw. Enum. iSi (1S60). Kadumb^rlya^ 

 Kallu, S. 



Ta(o?iia* Walkerii, Wight, III. i. 19. Thw. Enum. 181. C. P. 1908. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 561. Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 132. 



A moderate-sized tree, bark thick, blackish, twigs cylin- 

 drical, shining, young parts finely pilose ; 1. 4-8 in., oval- 



* See \xn6,&x Xylopia parvifolia (Pt. i, p. 28) for the other species of 

 this curious genus of Wight's. 



