Viospyros.'] lxxxi. EBENACEiE (hiern). 623 



cent; lobes in fruit foliaceous, broadly ovate, not reflexed. — D. macrocali/x, Klotsch in 

 Peters, Mossamb. Bot. i. p. 182, non Alph. DC. 



Mozamb. X>lstr. Senna, native name " Nhamod^ma," the roots are used to 

 clean and dye teeth red, Peters ! Kirk J Eovuma River, also between Laputa and 

 Tette, and Quiloa, Kirk ! 



/3. Ae^groifWrAa, Welw. ex Hiern in Trimen, I. c. Calyx moderately accrescent; 

 lobes in fruit subfoliaceous, ovate-oblong, at length usually reflexed. Pilose hairs 

 more abundantly scattered than in o. macrocalyx. Inflorescence shorter. 



liO^^er Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith ! Burton ! (native name M'biebi) ; Angola, 

 Golungo Alto, fruit edible, Welwitsch ! 



A specimen from Sierra Leone, gathered by Afzelius, may possibly belong to tlie 

 second form. 



10. Z>. Dendo, Weliv. ex Hiern^ Monogr. Ehen. p. 195, t. x. An 

 evergreen leafy tree of 25-40 ft., valuable as timber ; wood very black 

 and hard in the middle ; trunk 1-2 ft. diameter ; branches terete, 

 smooth, dark-ashy, glabrescent ; young parts shortly and closely tawny- 

 pubescent. Leaves elliptic-oblong, obtusely acuminate, somewhat or 

 scarcely wedge-shaped at the base, thinly coriaceous or submembranous, 

 rather shining, darker above, glabrescent or the midrib and sometimes 

 also the 4-5 pairs of slender lateral veins puberulous on both sides, 

 2-5J by l-2f in. ; midrib depressed on the upper surface, slender ; 

 tertiary veins transverse, very slender ; petiole ^— ^ in. long, puberulous. 

 Inflorescence axillary or slightly supra-axillary, abbreviated, shortly 

 and closely tawny-pubescent ; flowers dioecious, 5-6-merous, clustered, 

 several together, \-\ in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx campanu- 

 late, somewhat turbinate, shortly and closely tawny- pubescent on both 

 sides, cleft or in the female more deeply lobed, accrescent ; lobes ovate. 

 Corolla glabrous ^r nearly so ; tube short, campanulate-funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes ^ in. long, oval, obtuse, reflexed in the male, erect or spreading 

 in the female. Stamens 20 or 24, exserted, inserted in two rows at 

 the open mouth of the corolla-tube, equal or subequal, in the female 

 plant ; anthers linear, erect, hairy, sessile or subsessile ; pollen globular, 

 Smooth. Ovary glabrous, obtusely conical, 4-celled, bilobed at the 

 apex, in male flowers rudimentary ; style ; stigmas 2, compressed, 

 with thin margins ; ovules solitary. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, 

 shining, black-purple, f in. diameter. Fruiting calyx rather spreading, 

 1-1 J in. diameter ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, about ^ in. long, 

 rather plicate at the base. Seeds 2, subhemispherical, ^ in. diameter ; 

 albumen uniform ; embryo \ in. long, nearly straight ; radicle y^ i°- 

 long, bent near the upper end. — Diospyros (sp.), Welw. Syn. Explic. 

 p. 10 (1862) ; native name, " Dendo " ; compare also Welw. Apont. p. 

 552 (1859). 



Ziower Guinea. Angola, Golungo Alto, in dense mountainous woods, Wel- 

 witsch ! 



11. X>. Kirkll, Biern, Munogr. Ehen. p. 199. A tree with terete 

 ashy glabrescent branches ; young shoots ferruginous, tomentose- 

 puberulous. Leaves oval or oval-oblong, rounded at both ends, coria- 

 ceous, above velvety-puberulous rather shining with delicate slightly 

 raised veins, below velvety-pubescent tawny with raised rufous midrib 



