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small ovate bracts a little above the middle. Calyx ^ in. long, glabrous ; 

 lobes 5 in. long, glabrous inside, ovate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla as in 

 the male. Staminodes 4. Ovary globular, glabrous, 8-celled ; ovule 

 solitary in each cell ; styles 4, bitid at the apex, glabrous. Fruit 

 globose, 1-1 g in. in diam., supported by the persistent calyx whose lobes 

 are slightly enlarged and reflexed, reddish-brown. Seeds 2-8. F\. B. I. 

 v. 3, p. 555 (in part) ; Grab. Cat. p. 1 07 ; Dalz. <& Gibs. p. 142 ; 

 AVight, Icon. 1. 1225; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 92 (in part) ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 211 (in part); Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 163; AVatt, Diet. Eeon. Prod. v. 3, p. 150 (in part). Var. 

 montana i^roper, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. (1873) p. 222. Diospyros Goindu, 

 Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 4 (1852) p. Ill ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 141.— 

 Flowers : Jau.-Apr. Vern. Goindu. 



KoNKAN : Sfocksl; hills eastward of Panwell, Graham, Woodrow; Karanja liill, 

 Balzelll S. M. Country: bills north of Belgaum, Eitchle, 1)72! Kanaka: Maiidele 

 CN. Kanara), Ritchie, 972! ; Xala naddi, Ritchie, 972! ; N. Kanara Ghats, Talbot.— 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout India ; Ceylon, Malaya, Tropical Australia. 



11. Diospyros cordifolia, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) p. 38, t. 50. 

 A small tree with strong often branched thorns scattered over the trunk 

 and larger branches. Leaves 1^-2| by f-| in., oblong, obtuse, A^elvety 

 on both sides, base rounded, cordate, or subtruncate ; petioles |-| in. 

 long. Male flowers axillary ; peduncles bearing usually 3 flowers at 

 their apex ; pedicels J^ in. long. Calyx -i in. long, hairy outside ; lobes 

 ^— ^ in. long, elliptic, obtuse or subacute, pubescent inside and with 

 eiliolate margins. Corolla white, ^ in. long, slightly pubescent outside ; 

 lobes ^ in. long, ovate-oblong, subacute. Stamens 10, in 2 rows of 8, 

 in opposite pairs united at the base ; anthers -^-^ in. long, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse or subobtuse, not awned, pubescent. Eemale flowers solitary ; 

 pedicels \ in. long ; bracteoles ^^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, hairy and 

 ciliate. Calyx \—^ in. long, glabrous or puberulous on both sides, deeply 

 divided ; lobes ^-\ in. long, oblong, obtuse. Corolla white, |-^ in. long; 

 lobes obtuse. Staminodes 12 in a single row, lanceolate; filaments 

 long. Ovary globose, glabrous ; styles 4, erect, bifid. Fruit ^-1 in. in 

 diam., globose, yellow when ripe. Bedd. Eor. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. cxliii. D. montatia, C. B. Clarke, in. Hook. f. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 555 

 (in part). D. montana, var. cordifolia, Hiern, Monogr. Eben. (1873) 

 p. 222. — Flowers : Mar.-Apr. 



Kanaka : tolerably common in N. Kanara ; Mandgod (N. Kanara), Talbot ! ; N. 

 Kanara, Ka7iitkar\ — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



Hiern (Monogr. Eben. p. 222) unites this withi). oyiontana, Roxb., of which be makes 

 it a variety. The points of difference between the two plants are however, I think, 

 suiBcieut to maintain them as separate species. D. cordifolia differs from D. vioiitana 

 in the leaves, the number of staminodes, the male inflorescence (which is paniculate 

 in B. montana and consists of 3 shortly-pedicelled flowers at the apex of the peduncle 

 in B. cordifolia), the male calyx (which is hairy in B. cordifolia and glabrous in B. 

 mo7itana), and in the anthers of the fertile stamens, which in B. montana are 

 lanceolate, glabrous, and usually awned, while in B. cordifolia they are linear, hairy, 

 obtuse, not awned. 



12. Diospyros Chloroxylon, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) p. 38, 

 t. 49. A small tree, sometimes spiuescent ; bark deeply cracked ; 

 branchlets tomentose. Leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, 1-2| by 

 \-l\ in., elliptic, obovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, more 



