G04 Lxx, kubiace.t:. 



18. DIPLOSPORA, DC. 



Evergroeu shrubs or trees ; brandies terete. Leaves opposite, petio- 

 late, coriaceous; stipules ti'iangular, long-pointed or acuminate. Flowers 

 small, inconspicuous, in axillary fascicles or short cymes, usually poly- 

 ganio-dia'cious ; bracts connate, often involucellate. Calyx-tube short, 

 obconic or hemispheric; limb truncate or 4-5-lobed or -toothed. Corolla- 

 tube short, cylindric or campanulate ; lobes 4-5, spreading, twisted in 

 bud. Stamens 4-5, inserted at the mouth of the corolla; filaments 

 short or long ; anthers oblong or linear, often recurved, exserted. Ovary 

 2 (rarely 3) -celled ; ovules 2-5 in each cell on placentas attached to the 

 septum ; style short or long, with oblong or linear branches. Berry 

 ovoid or globose, 2-celled, few-seeded. Seeds rather large ; testa various ; 

 embryo small. 



Fruit uiiibonate witb a conical beak witbiu the caljx-linib 1. B. apiocarpa. 



Fruit not uniboiiate, marked at the apex with the scar of the 



calyx-limb 2. B. iphcerocarpa, 



1. Diplospora apiocarpa, Book.f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 123. A 

 moderate-sized tree ; bark pale. Leaves 3|-6 by Ig-S in., ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, glabrous, base tapering; main 

 nerves G-8 pairs, sometimes witli hairy glands (? galls) in their axils 

 beneath ; petioles ^-J in. long ; stipules | in. long, triangular, acumi- 

 nate. Flowers subsessile, in axillary fascicles ; buds resinous ; bracts 

 connate into a cup or epicalyx. Calyx yV'i^- loi^g) campanulate, covered 

 with a resinous substance ; limb truncate, entire or with several minute 

 irregular teeth. Corolla 5 in. long, glabrous ; lobes g in. long, oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens in the male and 2-sexual flowers much exserted. 

 Fruit I in. long, sessile or subsessile, ellipsoid or pyriform, bluntly um- 

 boimte with a conical beak within the calyx-limb. Seeds flat, irregularly 

 compressed, few. Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 223 ? ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 191. Diacospermuvi apiocar^nan, Dalz. in Ivew Journ. Bot. v. 2 

 (1850) p. 257; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 120; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 15(5. — Flowers: July-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ; the Ghats lat. 16°, Bahell ^ Gibson ; about the latitude of 

 Vingorla, Talhut. Kanaka: Law\ — Distrib. jippareutly endemic in the Western 

 reninsula oi' India. 



I liave cited Beddome's t. 22.3 in Flor. Sylvat. for tbis, with hesitation. The fruit, 

 as figured by Beddome, does not agree at all with that of Dnlzell's plant; in fact 

 Boddonie, in For. Man. p. cx.xxiv-S, is himself doubtful of the correctness of the 

 identification. 



2. Diplospora sphserocarpa, Hooh. f. PI. B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 123. 

 A small glabrous tree. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, subacute or 

 shortly acuminate, glabrous, base tapering; main nerves 4-6 pairs; 

 petioles l-| in. long ; stipules 4—^ in. long, triangular, acute. Flowers 

 sessile, fascicled on a very short peduncle, without connate bracts. 

 Calyx resinous outside, ^ in. long ; lobes 4, equalling the tube, orbi- 

 cular-oblong, ciliolate. Corolla-tube very short, not as long as the lobes 

 of the calyx, throat glabrous ; lobes i in. long, oblong, obtuse. Fruit 

 globose, f in. in diam., shortly pedicelled, marked at the apex with the 

 scar of the calyx-limb, not umbonate. Seeds few, vertically imbricate, 

 much compressed. Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cxxxiv-3 

 (exclud. syn.) ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 191. Discosjiei-muin sjphcero- 



