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high, and often a single plant is of a size convenient for a 

 herbarium specimen. Owing to the kindness and assistance 

 of F. Lewis, Esq., Assistant Conservator of Forests, I was 

 able to make a tour through the Peak Wilderness, where 

 this species proved to be very abundant in local areas. 

 In the vicinity of Magala, Kadawatta, and Eratna, on rocky 

 sandy soils and along precipitous streams, this species attains 

 a height of 6,000-9,000 mm. (20-30 feet) and a circumference 

 of about 300 mm. (1 foot). It has also been found in the 

 Marakelle forest, Kuruwiti korale (Lewis). Also occurs in 

 Bombay and Mysore. 



. Diospyros attenuata, Thw. Enum. Gey. PI., p. 182, 

 n. 18 (1860). 



Kadumberiya, S. 



Thw. Enum. 182 (1860). Fl. B. Ind. III., 561. C. P. 

 3,478. Bedd. Ic. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 139. Hiern, Mon. Eben. 182. 



A small tree rarely exceeding 1| feet in circumference 

 and 20 feet in height, bearing flowers when trunk one inch 

 (25 mm.) diameter ; forms a mat of roots at the base ; ever- 

 green, dioecious ; young shoots sparingly puberulous, quickly 

 glabrescent ; bark black, not scaly, red when freshly cut ; 

 branches and foliage present a weeping habit, branches 

 given off low down. 



Leaves (cf. D. Thwaitesii) alternate, 50-115 mm. long, 

 12-30 mm. wide, narrowly ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate apex, narrowed or acute at base, young leaves 

 glabrous except on under side of midrib, thin, reddish when 

 young, green when mature, venation reticulate, feebly 

 pellucid in young leaf, but opaque in old leaves, lateral 

 veins fine but more conspicuous in old leaves ; petiole green, 

 glabrous, 2-4 mm. long. (See plate XL, fig. 15.) 



Flowers and ripe fruits September to December. 



Male inflorescence consists of a sessile cluster of 3-25 very 

 small narrow flowers borne in axil of leaf or on old twigs ; 

 the same plant may bear flowers in successive years. Each 

 flower is in the axil of a very small bract covered externally 



