98 EbenacecB. \Diospyros. 



tudinal fissures, young parts minutely adpressed-puberulous; 

 1. 3i-6| in., oblong-oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute at base, 

 shortly acuminate, obtuse, sometimes twisted at apex, glabrous, 

 dark green, paler beneath, subcoriaceous becoming very stiff 

 when old, nervation not pellucid, lat. veins numerous, fine, 

 not conspicuous (more so and prominent when dried), nearly 

 horizontal, anastomosing, petiole \-\ in., stout, flattened and 

 slightly channelled above; male fl. on short drooping ped., 

 3-7 in nodding clusters often below the 1. ; cal. ovoid-cylin- 

 drical, truncate or very shortly 5-toothed, pubescent ; cor. 

 |-i in. densely pubescent inside and out, lobes 5, broadly 

 ovate, subacute; stam. about 16; fem. fl. (not seen) solitary; 

 cal.-segm. deep; fruit very large, 2-^—3 in. long, ovate-ovoid, 

 very blunt or depressed on top but usually tipped with a 

 central mamilla, glabrous, apple-green, cal. very much en- 

 larged, flattened, woody but not very thick, with the segm. 

 wide, acute, often cordate, deflexed and pouched at the base, 

 inner layer of pericarp very hard and bony, lobulated, white; 

 seeds 4-10, large, nearly \\ in., oblong-ovoid, compressed, 

 smooth and highly polished, orange-brown, embryo large, in 

 axis of pearly equable endosperm. 



Forests of the moist low country below 1000 ft.; rare. Singhe Raja 

 Forest; Hiniduma ; Potapitiya, Kukul Korale ; Karawita Kande ; Ratna- 

 pura; l^otalankanda, Pasdun Korale. Fl. April. 



Endemic. 



This affords the finest of the variegated woods known as Calamander. 

 The tree is much sought after, and, from being destroyed in many places, 

 is becoming more and more scarce. Thunberg in 1777 first discovered 

 ' Calaminder ' wood to be produced by a species of Diospyros (see his 

 ' Travels,' vol. iv.). 



The shape and large size of the fruit afford a ready means of 

 determining this species, and the venation of the large leaves is also 

 characteristic. 



12, D. sylvatica, Roxb. Cor. PI. \. 37 (1795). Sudu-kadum- 

 b^riya, S. 



Thw. Enum. 178. C. P. 2729. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 559. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 121. 



A moderate-sized tree, trunk rather slender, bark blackish- 

 grey, buds silky; 1. 3-5 in., oval, acute at base and slightly 

 decurrent on a short flattened petiole, acuminate, obtuse at 

 apex, glabrous and shining above, paler beneath, veins 

 pellucid; fl. on .short ped., on the young shoots below the 

 1. or in lowest axils, male in small shortly peduncled clusters, 

 female solitary, larger; cal. pubescent, .segm. 4 (or 3), short 

 and rounded in male, ovate-oblong acute in fem., cor. urceo- 

 latc, lobes 4 (or 3), short; stam. about 22, nearly equal, anth. 



