16 EBENACEM. [Diospyeos. 



part); CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 104 ; PrainBtng. Pi. 653.— Yern. Neori, bhori 

 (Bundelkhand). 



A small or medium-sized tree, sometimes armed. Trunk usually crooked 

 covered with dark rust-coloured nearly smooth bark. Young 1 branches 

 softly pubescent. Leaves 2£-4 in. long, ovate, bluntly acuminate, usually 

 rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, margins undulate, scft'y pubes- 

 cent when young, but finally glabrous on both surfaces, petioles £-£ in. 

 long. Male flowers in small few-flowered panicles ; bracts ovate, acute, 

 ciliate. Calyx glabrous outside and inside; lobes 4, ciliate on the 

 margins. Corolla about 3 or 4 times as long as the calyx, urceolate, 

 white ; lobes shorter than the tube. Stamens 16, in opposite pairs, 

 united at the base, the outer longest. Anthers lanceolate, awned, 

 glabrous. Fem. flowers axillary, solitary, nodding ; pedicels stout, 

 shorter than the flowers, bearing 2 small ovate ciliate bracts above the 

 middle. Calyx glabrous except the ciliate margins ; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 accrescent. Staminodes 4. Ovary globose, glabrous, 8-celled. Fruit 

 globose, about 1 in. in diam., supported by the enlarged reflexed calyx- 

 lobes, reddish-brown. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth, Mrs. Bell). These are the only specimens 

 I have seen of Roxburgh's D. montana from the Upper Gangetic area. 

 Flowers during the hot season. Distetb. : Behar, Bohilasghur (Wall 



. Cat. 4115), the Circars (Roxburgh), Konkan, Malabar, Belgaum, also 

 in Burma. It is easily distinguished from D. cordifolia by the shape 

 and thinness or the leaves, by the male flowers being in panicles, and 

 by the number of the staminodes. 



3. D. KanjilaliU Duthie in hid. For. Vol. xxxi {1905) 307 ; Brandts 

 Inl. Trees 713. 



A small or medium-sized tree with a fairly tall trunk. Bark greenish or 

 ashy-grey and quite smooth like that of the Guava, exfoliating in thin 

 scales. Branches forming a rather narrow and iopen crown, not spines- 

 cent. Leaves 1|-5| in. long, elliptic-suborbicular, thicker than those of 

 D. cordifolia, usually densely tomentose when young, becoming rigidly 

 coriaceous and almost glabrous in age; mirlrib impressed above, pro- 

 minent beneath, petioles §-§ in. Si ale flowers in short 3-flowered 

 cymes, pedicels y S in. ; bracts ovate, sub-acute, ciliate on the margins. 

 Calyx-lobes broad and rounded, pubescent on both sides and with 

 ciliate margins. Corolla iV/b i n - long, slightly pubescent outside, 

 glabrous within, pale-green. Stamens 16, in opposite pairs, united 

 below; anthers a^ned, glabrous. Fem. flowers axillary, solitary, 

 nodding, pedicels about j in. Calyx in fruit accrescent ; lobes spread- 

 ing, broader than in D. cordifolia. Corolla dark-green, otherwise like 

 that of male. Staminodes 8, alternately longer, the longer ones often 

 toothed near the acuminate apex, the shorter one3 obtuse. Fruit up to 

 1 in. in diam., globose. Seeds about | in., sublunate. 



