X\ate 2336. 



DIOSPYROS BILOCULARIS, Oliv. 



Edenace^e. 



pt 



pedicell 



interduin breviter et obtuse aplculatis, f\, ^ . . ., floribus ? axillari- 



^>iis m fasciculis paucifloris dispositis, pedicellis crassiusculis apicem 



versus incrassatis, calycis 4-partitis segmentis rotundatis dorso et 



loargine cum pediccllu ferrugineo-pilosulis, corolla 4-fida crassiuscula 



aestivatione dextrorsum coiitorta, liypocarpio priraum obconico mox 



oreviter crasse cylindrico, lobis calycinis a^quilongis basi articulatis, 



stammodia 0, ovario glabro oblongo- v. ovali ovoideo apice aiigustato 



<?aiycetn superante biloculari, ovula in utroque loculo geminata, 



pendula, fructibus oblnngo-ellipsoideis apice brevissinie apiculatis, 



^oiiosperniis, pericar-pio liaud crasso coriaceo epicarpio (in sieco) 



Parce rugubso ghiucescenti-purpureo oeulo arniato minute papilloso^ 



uoerculato, albuniine iii.sigiiiter nuliatini runiiiiato, 



.j.-^"^^- ^Singapore, in the Jungle by the Botanic Garden, Ridley 

 \ 0. 2755). Received also from the same locality in 1882 



with 



Arho 





rerum ^3^^ p^^^ i^ngura, i poll, latum. Calyx fructiferus vix 

 rescens ; segmentis patentibus, tempore florifero erectis. 



Tim cm-ious Biospyros would seem to be the type of a new section 

 "I the genus. It has the syrameti-ically runnnated albumen ot 

 L;f ''/*«and the geiHinate ovules of § Cargillia, but a 2-celIed ovary, 

 ^aie flowers I do not know.-D. Oliver. 



J-J' 2 i";^'"^''- 2. t^nme in longitudinal section. 3. Transver-se section of .s.eJ. 



