Diospyros.] lxxxi. ebenace^ (hiern). 521 



brons, partly inserted at the base of the corolla and partly liypogynous, 



in female flowers. Ovary glabrous ?, 8-celled, rudimentary in male 

 flowers, occasionally 5 -celled in subhermaphrodite flowers. Fruit soli- 

 tary, glabrous (but hairy around the base of the style), acom-sbaped, 



1 by § in., half enclosed in the subtruncate shortly pubescent calyx. 

 Albumen of the seeds uniform. 



Upper Guinea. Abbeokuta, Irving! Barter! Niger Expedition at Eppah, 

 Barter ! 



Mozamb. Bistr. Senna, Peters! Zambesi and Shire, Kirk! Mcller ! 



6. X>. tricolor, Hiern^ Monogr. Ehen. p. 183, t. v. fig. 1. A much- 

 branched shrub of 2-4 ft. high or a small tree ; branches terete, ferru- 

 ginous-tomentose, diverging, sometimes flexuous, procumbent. Leaves 

 distichous, elliptical, obtuse at both ends, with few (3-5) inconspicuous 

 lateral veins, green and glabrescent above, white-silky with the midrib 

 and margin often ferruginous beneath, 1-3 by f-2 in., the young ones 

 silvery-silky on both sides ; petiole xV~i i^ lo^^gj shortly and closely 

 pubescent. Flowers clustered 4-1 together, axillary, tetramerous, dioe- 

 cious, silky-pubescent, sessile. Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft ; lobes ovate, 

 acute, not or but little accrescent. Corolla tubular in the male (more 

 dilated in the female), 3 times the length of the calyx, subcoriaceous, 

 ^ in, long, 4-cleft ; lobes rather acute, erect. Stamens 6-8 or more, 

 unequal ; filaments pubescent below ; anthers subulate, abortive in 

 female flowers. Ovary ovoid-conical, silky, in male flowers rudimen- 

 tary. Fruit solitary, ovoid -conical, acute, glabrous except near the 

 apex, obsoletely 4-sided, 1-1 :J by ^-| in., 2^-seeded. Fruiting calyx, 

 ^-J in. diam., spreading. Seeds | in. long, enclosed in a papery enve- 

 lope ; albumen white, uniform. — Noltia tricolor ^ Schum. et Thonn. 

 Beskr. Guin. PI. p. 189. 



Tipper Guinea. Guinea, native name " Aumbse," ITionning ' Cape Coast, 

 Brass ! Niger Expedition, at Lagos, Barter ! 



7. I>. Barterl, Hierny Monogr. Ehen. p. 187. A shrub with young 

 shoots rufous-hispid or afterwards, fuscous-hispid ; older branches 

 dark, terete, glabrate. Leaves oval-ovate, , acuminate, apiculate, at 

 the base cordate, firmly subcoriaceous, dark green and glabrous except 

 on the depressed midrib, and with depressed veins above ; paler with 

 hispid-pilose ferruginous hairs, especially on the veins beneath, 2-3 by 

 1-1^ in. .; petioles hispid, -[V~f ^^* ^^^S- ^^^^ flowers unknown. Fe- 

 male flowers solitary, subsessile, axillary, with acicular rufous-hispid- 

 pilose caducous bracts. Calyx ^ in. long, rufous-hispid-pilose, 

 4-5.partite, with linear-lanceolate lobes, somewhat spreading in flower 

 and subhorizontal not accrescent in fruit, hispid inside. Corolla conical 

 in bud and as long as the calyx, ferruginous -hispid outside, glabrous in- 

 side, 5-fid ; lobes acute. Staminodes ll, short, in one row and distinct 

 (except 1 pair), pilose. Pistil conical ; ovary glabrous except the apex, 

 4-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles 2, bilobed at the apex, pilose below, as 

 long as the young ovary. Fruit oblong-conical, 1^ in. long, glabrous 

 (except the apex), shining, with remains of the styles where it is 



