Diospuros.~\ xc. EBENACEJS. (C. B. Clarke.) 555 



few species somewhat hairy. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose. Seeds (where 

 known) with equable albumen. 



6. X>. montana, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 37, t. 48, and FL 2nd. ii. 538 ; leaves 

 ovate or oblong pubescent or glabrous base cuneate or obtuse, male fl. in small 

 cymes, calyx small deeply lobed, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 

 16 glabrous. Wall. Cat. 4115, upper part of type sheet ; Wight Ic. t. 1225 ; 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 230 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 107 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 142 ; Bedd. For. Man. 143 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 220 ; Kurz 

 in Journ, As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 235 ; Brand. For. Fl 296. D. cordifolia, Roxb. 

 Cor. PL i. 38, t. 50, and FL Ind. ii. 538 ; Wall. Cat. 4116 ; A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 230; Wight 111. t. 148; Thwaites Enum. 178; Kurz For. FL ii. 130; 

 Bedd. For. Man. 143. D. rugosula, Br. Prodr. 526 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 229. 

 D. bracteata, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 539 ; A. DC. 1. c. 239. D. heterophylla, Wall. 

 Cat. 4138; A. DC. I. c. viii. 230. D. sylvatica, Wall. Cat. 4117, not of Roxb.; 

 of A. DC. Prodr. viii. 231, as to var. /3 only. 1). punctata, Dene in Nouv. Ann. 

 Mus. a* Hist. Nat. iii. 467 ; A. DC. L c. 230. D. Goindu, Dalz. in Hook. Kew 

 Journ. iv. Ill ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 141. D. Waldemarii, Klotzsch in Reis. 

 Pr. Waldem. 101, t. 55. 



From the HIMALAYA (from the Kavi eastward, Brandis) to CEYLON and TENASSERIM; 

 common. DISTHIB. Birma, Malay Archipelago, Trop. Australia. 



A tree, often spinous ; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 2 by 1 in., base cuneate 

 or cordate on the same branch, thin, nerves not elevated, though both primary and 



eeply 4-fid ; corolla nearly as of the male ; staminodes 4-12 ; ovary 8-celled, cells 

 1-ovuled. Fruit -1 in. diam., globose, glabrous ; lobes of fruiting calyx ^-^ in., 

 ovate, obtuse, foliaceous, Seeds 2-8 ; albumen not ruminated (Kurz says ruminated 

 in the Pegu tree). D. cordifolia has the female peduncles |-f in., the leaves and 

 calyx subpersistently pubescent ; D. montana has them glabrescent ; Beddome main- 

 tains the two to be distinct species. 



7. X>. Lotus, Linn ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 228 ; leaves elliptic narrowed 

 upwards membranous at first pubescent beneath, male fl. 2-3 together subsessile, 

 calyx small lobed half-way down, corolla urceolate glabrous without, stamens 

 16 connective pilose. Lamk. III. t. 858 ; Retch. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1079 ; Hiern 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 223 ; Brand. For. Fl. 297, t. 36 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 33. 



WEST PUNJAB ; Hazara, alt. 3-6000 ft., Stewart. WEST KASHMIR and North of 

 PESHAWUR ; not uncommon, Brandis. DISTRIB. West Asia. Cultivated in the 

 Mediterranean Eegion, also (?) in Japan and China. 



Resembling D. montana ; the leaves are larger (6 by 2 in. in Stewart's example). 

 " Fruit much prized by the Affghan tribes " (Brandis) ; hence it may be questioned 

 how far the tree is indigenous in India. 



8. Z>. XLaki, Linn. f. Suppl. 439 ; leaves ovate obtuse or narrowed at 

 both ends pubescent reticulated beneath, male flowers in small cymes, calyx 

 lobed deeply, corolla urceolate tube short glabrate lobes tomentose without, 

 stamens 16 pilose. Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 527 : Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 107 : Wight 

 Ic. t. 415 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 229, excl. var. y, glabra ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. 

 Phil. Soc. xii. 227-230, with Jig. ; III. Hoi'tic. 1871, 176, t. 78 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 233. D. chinensis, Blume Bijd. 670. D. Schi-Tse, Bunge 

 Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 42. D. costata, Rev. Hortic. 1870, Jig. at p. 133. 

 D. Roxburghii, Rev. Hortic. 1872, tt. 28-29. Embryopteris Kaki, G. Don. Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 41. 



