Order 7 1 . Ebenacece. 173 



1. MABA. Corolla lobes 3 or 4, stamens 3 to 22, anthers 

 oblong, female flowers often with staminodes. 



2. DIOSPYEOS. Calyx and corolla lobes 4, occasionally 5, 

 stamens often 16, anthers linear, female flowers often with 

 16 staminodes, styles 1 to 4, fruit with enlarged often woody 

 calyx. 



1. MABA. 



1. * M.nigrescens. A small tree with rigidly erect branches 

 and a good deal of tawny hair about it, leaves small ovate or 

 lanceolate, shining above, flowers small, males 1 to 5 together, 

 females one or two, stamens about 9, fruit half an inch long, 

 ellipsoid with cup-like calyx. Ralitrora. 



A tree in sheltered situations, a shrub in the plains. Lisboa. 

 Western Ghauts 



2. * M . micrantlia (Holochilus m. D.). Leaves oblong, narrow 

 at both ends, female flowers minute, white, sessile, solitary, 

 with 6 staminodes and 3 styles, fruit oblong, hard and dry, 

 with funnel-shaped calyx. 



S. Ghauts : " male flowers not seen " (D. and H.). 



2. DlOSPYROS. 



H. has 59 species, besides some imperfectly known. The male 

 flowers in all the species here given are in short cymes or clusters, 

 the female solitary or nearly so, and the fruit eatable. The stamens 

 eeem to vary very much, even in the same species. 



1. D. montana. Leaves ovate or oblong, obtuse, shining, 

 female flowers with several staminodes, fruit size of a cherry, 

 round, smooth. Goindu, liddru, lohdri. 



Common in the Ghauts. JET. includes in this D.'s Z>. Goindu. 

 \i 2. D. assimilis (D. nigricans, D.). Leaves smooth, oval or 

 oblong, stamens 24 or more, fruit round, seated in a large 

 fleshy green calyx, the lobes standing out horizontally. 

 Malya. 



Matheran, common. Chorla Ghaut (D.). This comes very near to 

 D, ebenum, the true ebony, which is wild in S. India 



3. D. tupru (D. exsculpta, D.). Eough almost all over, 

 leaves oval, blunt, flowers very small, white, fruit round, size 

 of a large plum, brown or yellowish, with glutinous pulp. 

 Timburni, tartar a. 



The Konkan. 



I find that Colonel Beldome and Dr. Dymock agree with me in 



