1. Diospybos.] 69. EBFNACEJE. 



or more, acute or obtuse with rounded base. M. fls. white 

 fragrant in axillary osually 4-fld. umbellate cymes, buds 

 ovoid-oblong with 4 small silky patches. F. fls. 1" diam. 

 solitary. Fruit covered with a deciduous red tomentum, 

 globose, 2^-3" diam. 



Common along streams in the Singbhum valleys, rarer in Manbhum 

 and Palaman. Very rare now in the Santal Parganahs and chiefly in the 

 northern valleys. FL April-May. Fr. ripens the following April. Ever- 

 green, the new leaves which are bright crimson appear abont April. 



Buds lanceolate silky. Sec. n. scarcely raised, soon inclined very obli- 

 quely forward, very reticulate. Petiole \-\' J . if. peduncles $-%'' pubes- 

 cent. Calyx urceolate silky. Corolla nearly £'' campanulate or urceolate 

 with short sub-orbicular lobes. St. 20-*3o or more, nl. in pairs from near 

 the base, pubescent. F. peduncles stout £". Sepals V' broadly ovate or 

 sub-orbicular, V in fruit foliaceous. Cor.-lobes 4-5, £'' diam. Seeds 

 about 8 large in pulp which is largely eaten by monkeys, sometimes by 

 human beings, but is said to produce great thirst. I fiti that it barns 

 the throat. 



5. D- variegata, Kurz ? 



A tree with smooth bark and pink blaze, very large oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong leaves mostly 10" by 3f ", easily distinguished 

 from the last by the prominent 7-8 prs. of sec. n, raised 

 beneath, first spreading then more or less arched within the 

 margin, raised and reticulate nervules, and by the sub- obtuse 

 or cuneate base. 



Found in ravines in the northern Santal Parganahs in January, but 

 I have been unable to procure flowers. It compares exactly with speci- 

 mens in the Sibpur Herbarium of D. variegata, Kurz, from Assam. Tim« 

 of flowering probably April-May. 



The M. fls. of D. variegata are described as in very short sparingly 

 pubescent cymes -with a salver-shaped corolla nearly glabrous without 

 and with about 16 stamens. 



T>. discolor, Willd. A specimen, from Eanchi, probably cultivated, 

 collected by Gamble has leaves 9' with numerous slendei.* nerves, easily 

 recognised by being silvery-silky beneath. Bears a large red velvety 

 edible fruit $]&. April. Ft. Dec. 



6. D- tomentosa, $oxb. Terel, Tiril, K. t 84 Tend, 

 Kharw.; Kend, £T, Beng. 



A small or sometimes a large tree with black rugose bark, 

 rusty-tomentose shoots and large broadly ovate leaves mostly 



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