2. DiosPYROS.] 85. EBENACEM. 



ligemorrhage of internal org-ans and as a styptic for wounds. The oil from the 

 seeds is also used in dysentery. 



4. D. OYalifolia, Wight. 



A small tree with narrowly elliptic or oblong leaves 3-45" long- 

 Avitli rounded or slightly retuse tips, petiole •15-*25", sec. n. about 

 8 not strong, soon reticulate and with close reticulations between. 

 Fls. sessile clustered axillary and from leaf scars. Male 3-12 together, 

 •17" long campanulate, calyx 'l", tomentosely hairy with spreading 

 lobes as long as the tube, corolla lobes short ovate, stamens 13-20 

 glabrous. Fern. fl. 1-2 {2-Q, F.B.I.) together, •25" diam. with broadly 

 ovate petals and 0-7 staminodes, ovary hairy 4-6-celled. Fruit "7" 

 globose subsessile glabrate with the refiexed lobes of the calyx "I" 

 long and broad, permanently tomentosely hairy both sides. Albumen 

 equable. 



Piiri Division, very rare (Burkul) Gamble I Flowers with the new leaves May- 

 June. 



5. D. sylvatica, Roxh. Gara-tiril, K., S. ; Kalicha, Kauchia, Or. 



A tree sometimes large but often floAvering Avhen quite small. 

 Leaves typically narrow-elliptic or elliptic-oblong and acuminate, 4" 

 by 2" to 8" by 3'5", but small at the time of flowering, thinly pubes- 

 cent beneath when young, sec. n. 4-8 not finely reticulate between. 

 M. fls. very small, 3-4-merous, globose, •1-15", in numerous small 

 dense peduncled cymes, axillary and from the scars of caducous 

 scales on the new shoots, sometimes panicled on special leafless 

 branchlets. Fem. fl. pure Avhite, "2" diam. and 3" long, with the 

 lobes usually erect, in distichous rows mostly below the leaves, often 

 on special branchlets, more or less silky pubescent. Frviiting calyx 

 with a short campanulate tube and 3-5 broadly oblong obtuse very 

 coriaceous lobes '3" long usually Avith reflexed margins. Fruit ■5-'6" 

 diam., easily recognised by the 1-4 seeds of which the testa yields a 

 crimson juice. 



In the damper forests, Singbhum, along streams, rather scarce ! Santal Parg., 

 frequent in the Rajmahal ! Pari, very common everywhere, often as a shrub in 

 the laterite scrub ! Angiil, common near rivers ! Sambnlpur, rather scarce ! H. 

 April-May. Fr. Jan. -March. Nearly evergreen, new leaves at the time of 

 flowering. 



Attains GO ft. by 5 ft. in girth. Bark smooth dark grey or black with lichen-white 

 patches, blaze hard, brown then white. Leaves rather varial)le, the lower on a 

 shoot sometimes oval and in the shrubliy form often only 3-5" long and not 

 acuminate. Petiole "3-'75". M. cjTnes with ]>e(luncle S-'S" long, corolla broadly 

 campanulate or urceolate with orbicular lobes, stamens at extreme base or on 

 receptacle. Fem. fl. with 4 staminodes. After the fall of the fruit the regularly 

 arranged short knobbed pubescent peduncles •1.5-*25" long on short branchlets 

 make this species easily recognisable and remain for a long time. 



Var. latifolia. Leaves broadly elliptic 3 3-'/' broad. Sambalpur ! 



6. D. ebenum, Koenig. Var. acuminata, Haines. 



A small evergreen tree with drooping branches and minutely 

 pubescent twigs. Leaves oblong acuminate, 4-()"5", shining above, 

 pale, very thinly hairy and glabrescent beneath. M. fl. in peduncled 



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