Dwspyros.] EbenacecB. i o i 



Moist low country, very rare. I have seen only the C. P. specimens 

 collected at Hiniduma in 1853. Fl. December; white. 



Endemic. 



According to Thwaites, the timber of this very much resembles true 

 Calamander wood. The tree requires more careful examination, but is 

 almost unknown. 



17. D. Thwaitesii, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. 27 (1874). 



D. Candolleana, Thw. Enum. 181 (non Wight). D. hirsuta, var., Hiern, 

 Mon. 164. C. P. 3394. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 566. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 135. 



A moderate-sized tree, twigs slender, young parts ferru- 

 gineo-tomentose; 1. rather small, 3-5 in., oval or lanceolate, 

 subacute at base, tapering and long-acuminate at apex, 

 glabrous when mature, lat. veins inconspicuous ; fl. sessile, 

 1-3 together; cal. densely rufous-hairy, segm. 5, short, broad, 

 apiculate ; cor.-lobes 5, rounded, recurved ; stam. 10-12, un- 

 equal, anth. strongly apiculate ; ov. 4-celled ; fruit about | in., 

 globose or broadly ovoid, apiculate, rufous-tomentose becoming 

 glabrous ; seeds slightly compressed, transversely striate, black, 

 endosperm ruminate. 



Forests in moist low country, rather rare. About Ratnapura ; Hini- 

 duma ; Singhe Raja Forest (Lewis). Fl. April ; white. 



Endemic. 



Hiern combines both this and D. Moonii under D. Jiirsiita; and the 

 present is certainly very close to it. Has no coloured heart-wood (F. 

 Lewis). 



18. D. Moonii, Thixj. Enum. 182 (i860). 



Thw. Enum. 182. D. hirsuta, var., Hiern, Mon. Eben. 164. C. P. 

 2833. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 566. Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 138. 



A moderate-sized tree, young parts slightly pilose, buds 

 silky, 1. large, 5-10 in., oblong-lanceolate, rounded at base, 

 shortly acuminate, obtuse, glabrous above, sparsely hairy 

 becoming glabrous beneath, leathery, midrib very prominent 

 beneath, channelled above, lat. veins inconspicuous, petiole 

 \ in., thick ; fl. sessile mostly in axils of fallen 1., male in 

 clusters of 6-10, fem. 1 or 2 together; cal. densely fulvous-pu- 

 bescent, segm. 5, as long as tube, acute, with reflexed margins 

 in fem., stam. 5 ; ov. lo-celled; fruit large, \h in., globose, at 

 first covered with fulvous hair afterwards glabrous, enlarged 

 cal. almost flat, segm. acute, spreading; seeds 6-10, oblong- 

 oval, much compressed, transversely striate, endosperm strongly 

 ruminate. 



Moist low country, rare. K.alutara Dist.(Moon); Hewesse (Thwaites). 

 Fl. Sept. 



Endemic. 



