104 LXXVIII. £BENACE.?f. 



Bot. V. 4 (1852) p. 110 {not of Wall, nor Bedd.); Diilz. & Gibs. p. 141.— 

 Flowers : Feb.-Mar. Verk. Ahnus ; Mahjd ; Rare. 



Confined to the southern districts of the Presidency. S. M. Countky: Ohorla 

 GliAt, Dcihell cf Gibson. Kanara : evergreen foresis, Talbot. 



The wood furnishes the Ebony used for wood-carving in Kumpta and Ilondvar 

 (N. Kanara). The quahty is good, but large pieces are rare {TaUjot).—J)\sTiii^. India 

 (VV. I'eninsula, Assam); Ceylon, Malaya. 



I have followed Hiern in uniting B. assiniilis, Bedd., with this ; indeed Beddouie 

 (Flor. Sylvat. t. 65) is doubtful as to their being separate species. I hare not seen 

 any authenticated specimens of Beddonie's plant ; there are none in Herb. Rew. 

 Triiuen {I. c.) points out that in the moist regions of Ceylon the leaves of B. Ebemtm 

 agree in form and venation with I), at^similis, Bedd., from S. Kanara. 



9. Diospyros microphylla, Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Si/luat. 

 (1872) p. cxlv. xV large tree 80-100 ft. high (Talbot), with a straight 

 trunk, unbranclied for a considerable height, buttressed at the base ; 

 bark dark, scaly ; young branches verticillate, hirsute with long 

 yellowish hairs; the older branches glabrous. Leaves |-2 by |-| in. 

 (resembling those of the box tree), coriaceous, ovate-elliptic, acute or 

 obtusely acuminate, glabrous above, sparingly hairy beneath when 

 young, afterwards glabrous except the midrib, base tapering ; petioles 

 j^-^ in. long. Male flowers small, about yo-^ in. long, 4-merous, 1-4 

 together in subsessile minute axillary cymes. Calyx jV in. long, densely 

 fulvous-hairy outhide ; lobes 4, rounded. Corolla 4-cleft ; lobes rounded, 

 apiculate, with a line of hairs on the back. Stamens Id, united by 

 their filaments in pairs, the inner the shorter ; anthers ovate, dehiscing 

 by apical pores. Kudimentary ovary minute, hairy. Female flowers 

 solitary, subsessile. Calyx and corolla as in the male. Starainodes 0. 

 Ovary 4-celled, pubescent ; ovule 1 in each cell ; style short, 2-partite. 

 Fruit 5-| by -^-^ in., cylindric or oblong, pointed, glabrous. Seed 1 

 (rarely 2); albumen not ruminate. Fl. B. 1. v. 3, p. 559 ; Bedd. Icon. 

 PL Ind. Or. (1874) t. 133 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 212; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 104: AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod, 

 v. 3, p. 150. Diospyros biuvifoUa, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. (1873) p. 218. 

 — Flowers : Mar. A^ern. Dida ; Kare-lcunchal. 



Konkan: Stocks \, Laic \ Kanara: Law\, Gibson I; Yellapur, Gibson'.; evergreen 

 forests of N. Kanara, common on the Yellapur Ghat.s, Talbot, 375.— Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula) ; Malacca, Penang, Singapore, Java, Borneo. 



10. Diospyros montana, Eoxb. Cor. PL v. 1 (1795) p. 37, t. 48. 

 A small or middle-.sized tree, sometimes armed ; young branches softly 

 pubescent. Leaves 2^-4 by 1-2 in., ovate-oblong or elliptic, subacute 

 or obtusely acuminate, more or less softly puberulous or tomentose when 

 young, at length glabrous ; base rounded, acute, or sometimes truncate ; 

 petioles ^--| in. long. Male flowers in short, few-flowered panicles ; 

 pedicels bracteate at the base; bracts ovate, acute, strongly ciliate ; buds 

 ovoid, acute. Calyx J in. long, 4-lobed, glabrous outside and inside; 

 lobes j\ in. long, broadly ovate, acute, ciliate, nuich enlarged in fruit. 

 Corolla white, urceolate, about 3 or 4 time.s as long as the calyx; lobes 

 a little shorter than the tube. Stamens 10, in 2 rows of 8, in opposite 

 pairs united at the base, the outer the longest ; anthers about ^ in. long 

 ( including the awn), lanceolate, usually with a long slender awn, glabrous. 

 Itudimentary ovary fleshy, with 4 acute teeth at the apex. Femai.k 

 jtLowERS axillary, solitary; pedicels nodding, stout, J t in. long, with 2 



