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pyros which I have not identified, as it was neither in 

 flower nor fruit. It is probably one of the three species 

 collected by Barkly and Home in 1869. Tree 6-10 feet 

 high, much -branched with spreading branches. Trunk 

 1| to 2 feet in circumference 2 feet from the ground, with 

 glabrous smooth brown bark. Leaves alternate, 2|— 5 

 inches long, broadly ovate, obtuse, cordate at the base, 

 entire, glabrous, dark-shining green above, pale green 

 beneath, coriaceous ; petiole q inch long. 



Lloyd, in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Maur., 1842-45, p. 158, 

 records having seen the " Ebony " in Eound Island in 

 1844. 



Barkly and Home, in Trans. Eoy. Soc. Maur., 1869, 

 pp. 118 and 137, record, under Xos. 19, 20, and 21, three 

 species of Diospyros resembling D. pterocalyx, melanida, and 

 chrysophyllos respectively. Specimens of these were for- 

 warded to Kew, and they are referred to in Baker, Flor. 

 Maur. Seych,, pp. 198 and 199. One is identified as 

 D. leucomelas, Poir., which is also native in Mauritius, and 

 the other two are doubtfully placed under D. mauritiana, 

 A. DC, and D. melanida, Poir. 



D. LEUCOMELAS, Poir. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., p. 198. 

 " Eound Island, Sir H. Barkly ! " 



D. MAURITIANA, A. DC. — Baker, Plor. Maur. Seych., 

 p. 198. "We have barren specimens of an allied plant 

 gathered by Sir H. Barkly on Round Island, with slender 

 zig-zag branches, very short petioles, and very glossy 

 strongly veined leaves three to four times as broad as long, 

 rounded at both ends. Both this and the other Eound 

 Island forms may likely prove, when fully known, distinct 

 from the Mauritian species." 



D. MELANIDA, Poir. — Baker, Flor. Maur. Seych., p. 199. 

 " We have a plant from Eound Island, gathered by Sir 

 H. Barkly, with a fruit-calyx just like that described 

 above (' Fruit-calyx nearly flat, above an inch broad, the 

 lobes produced at the border into a broad reflexed crisped 

 wing '), but with larger leaves more rounded at the base, 

 and veinins? more like that of D. tessdlaria." 



