Diospyros.] Lxxxi. ebenace^ (hiern). 525 



of the corolla, hispid-pilose with pale ferrnginous hairs; filaments 

 short, not in pairs. Ovary represented by a few hispid hairs. Female 

 plant unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Graboon Eiver, July, Mann ! 



14. I>. crassiflora, Hiern, Monogr. EJien. p. 260. A tall tree, 

 nearly glabrous except the inflorescence; branches dark, terete. Leaves 

 oblong, narrowly acuminate at the apex, more or less narrowed at the 

 base, spreading, very thinly coriaceous, shining above with depressed 

 midrib and inconspicuous veins, beneath with clearly marked lateral 

 veins and delicate tertiary veins, 7-8 by 2-2^ in. ; petiole ^-^ in. long. 

 Male flowers 1-3 together, ^-f in. long, on very short axillary shortly 

 pubescent peduncles or cymes. Calyx depresso-hemispherical, toughly 

 coriaceous, ^ in. diameter, puberulous on both sides, 4-5-cleft ; lobes 

 rounded. Corolla fleshy, of a light pink colour, of the size and form 

 of a pigeon's egg, shortly tomentose outside, nearly glabrous inside, 

 4-6-toothed at the apex ; teeth y2~6 ^"- ^^°t?' <^btuse. Stamens very 

 numerous, | in. long, inserted on the receptacle, subequal, in several 

 rows ; anthers linear, acute, somewhat hairy on the back ; filaments 

 very short. Ovary minute, hairy. Female plant unknown. 

 Tipper Guinea. Old Calabar, March, Eev. W. C. TJwmson .' 



EXCLUDED AND UNKNOWN SPECIES OF ETJKNACE.T;. 



Diospyros vtrginica diilcis (Sweet Pishamin) is, according to Alpli. DC. Prodr. viii. 

 p. 329, a name given by the colonists at Sierra Leone t(j Carpodinus dulcis, Br. 

 (Apocynaceae.) 



The Ebony of West Equatorial Africa, about 1° S. Lat., which is notcj and the 

 leaves of wliich are figured by Du Chaillu in his Travels, is probably an undescribcd 

 species of this Order. 



Ebenarea?, ' Pao Preto,' AVelw. Jib. n, 2536, Hiern, Monogr. Ebon. p. 48, from the 

 island of St. Thomas, is known only from a leaf-branch. 



