524 Lxxxi. ebenacea; (hiern). IDiospt/ros. 



and lateral veins, lJ-4 by |-2J in. ; petiole hairy, -1-^ in. long. 

 Flowers dioecious, axillary. Male inflorescence in several-flowered 

 cymes, raised on pednncles of about I in. long, with short pedicels, 

 bracteate ; flowers -^ in. long, tetramerous or rarely pentamerons ; 

 calyx campanulate, i in. long, ferruginous-velvety outside, appressedly 

 hairy inside, cleft ; corolla inflated- tubular, with 4 short ovate patent 

 obtuse lobes, glabrous inside; stamens 9-10, glabrous, unequal, on 

 short filaments ; ovary 0. Female flowers solitary, nearly ^ in. long, 

 on short peduncles ; calyx 4-5-lobed, f in. long, lobes lanceolate erect 

 hairy on both sides, about ^ in. long ; corolla tubular, truncate-conical, 

 with 5 (or 4 ?) very short spreading lobes, glabrous inside ; staminodes 

 8, glabrous ; ovary tawny- velvety, globular, 4-celled ; styles 2, hairy at 

 the base ; ovules solitary. Young fruit tawny- velvety, with appressed 

 or erect calyx-lobes. 



Mozamb. Bistr. Zambesi-land, above Tette, fruit good when made into a 

 cake, common, Kirk / 



12. D. Keudelotli, Hiern, Monogr, Ehen. p. 215, t. v. fig. 2. A 

 bushy tree, 10-13 ft. high ; branches terete, quickly glabrescent ; 

 young parts puberulous. Leaves ovate-oval, shortly acuminate at the 

 apex, obtusely narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous, above dark 

 green glabrous with depressed veins, beneath paler with few weak 

 scattered appressed whitish hairs and with raised veins, 2-3 by 1-1^ 

 in. ; margins just recurved ; petiole ^-^ in. long, wrinkled, glabrous. 

 Male cymes very abbreviated, axillary, 4-6- flowered, ferruginous-hairy; 

 bracts short, hairy; flowers shortly and appressedly pubescent, whitish, 

 sweet-scented, subsessile. Calyx -^^ ^^- ^^^S^ campanulate, 4-5-fid ; 

 lobes ovate. Corolla tubular, oblong (in bud), somewhat dilated at 

 the middle, glabrous inside, obtusely 4-5-lobed at the apex. Stamens 

 13-15, nearly equal, ^ in. long ; filaments pubescent, very short, more 

 or less connate at the base ; anthers linear, apiculate, somewhat hairy 

 on the back. Ovary rudimentary, hairy. Female plant unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot ! (doubtfully referred to D. senegalensis, 

 Perr., by Mr. Bentham in Hook. Niger FL p. 442). 



13. D. mannii, Hiernj Monogr. Ehen. p. 255. A tree, with 

 young shoots rufous-hispid or afterwards fuscous-hispid ; old branches 

 dark, glabrate. Leaves oval-oblong, acuminate at the apex, nan-owed 

 at the base, firmly membranous, glabrous and with depressed veins 

 above, beneath paler and with rufous-hispid hairs on the raised midrib 

 and lateral veins, flat, 5-7^ by IJ— 2J in. ; petiole fuscous hispid, |— x^o 

 in. long. Male flowers several or many together, 0- in. long, 5-6- 

 merous, in the axils of present or fallen leaves, forming short dense 

 rnfous-pilose-hispid cymes often on the older branches ; -pedicels short. 

 Calyx ferruginous-hairy on both sides, yo~f ^°- ^<^"g> deeply cleft ; 

 lobes lanceolate, somewhat spreading. Corolla subrotate in full flower, 

 ovoid-conical in the bud, ^ in. long, partite, glabrous except short pale 

 hairs along the back of the lanceolate- oblong spreading obtuse lobes. 

 Stamens 15-17, nearly equal, J in. long, appearing at the open mouth 



