Diospyros.'] xc. EBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 559 



first by short slits laterally near the apex of the cells. Albumen ruminated or 

 equable. 



18. D. sylvatica, Roxb. Cor. PL i. 37, t. 47, and Fl. Ind.\\. 537 ; leaves 

 elliptic or oblong narrowed at both ends nearly glabrous secondary nervation 

 indistinct, male fl. in small cymes, corolla short urceolate glabrate without, 

 female solitary. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 231, excl. var. p ; Thivaites Enum. 178 ; 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Jnrf. Or. t. 121, and For. Man. 143 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. 

 Soc. xii. 161, not of Watt. 



DECCAN PENINSULA from the CIBCABS and BOMBAY to CEYLON. 



A medium-sized tree. Leaves 4 by 2 in., minutely pubescent beneath or glabrous, 

 drying black ; petiole \ in. Male fl. in cymes -1 in. long ; calyx -lobes ~ in., 

 rounded, minutely hairy ; corolla i in., lo'oed half way down ; stamens 1 3-22, 

 glabrous or sparsely pilose ; anthers ovate, dehiscing by a short slit near their apex, 

 connective produced lanceolate. Female fl. on peduncles \-^ in., 4-3-merous; calyx- 

 lobes \ in., ovate-oblong ; corolla - in. ; staminodes 4 ; ovary 6-8-celled ; styles 3, 

 bifid. Fruit % in. diam., globose, nearly glabrous ; fruiting calyx accrescent, lobes 

 spreading, foliaceous, glabrous, nearly flat, striate. Seeds 2-8, albumen ruminated. 



19. D. ehretioides, Wall. Cat. 4137; leaves large elliptic base obtuse 

 nearly glabrous reticulating nervation prominent, male fl. in small cymes, corolla 

 urceolate glabrate without, females solitary. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 231 ; Hiern 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 162 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 234, 

 and For. Fl. ii. 129. 



Throughout BRITISH BIRMA, frequent. DISTRIB. Ava. 



A tree, attaining 70 ft. Leaves attaining 11 by 6^ in., base rounded or rarely 

 rhomboidal, nearly glabrous when very young, pale (brown when dried) beneath ; 

 petiole | in. Flowers nearly as in D. sylvatica, the males rather larger ; anthers ovate- 

 lanceolate, similar to those of D. sylvatica, and similarly dehiscing by a lateral slit 

 from the apex of the cell, which is 'in this species produced more than half-way down 

 the cell. Fruit 1-1^ in. diam., globose, smooth. 



20. D. Xturzii, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii/ 162; leaves elliptic 

 shortly acuminate glabrous, primary nerves slender distinct very close, female 

 fl. 2-3 together in short-peduncled cymes, corolla-lobes cinereous-tomentose on 

 both sides. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 235, and For. Fl. ii. 231. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS. ; frequent, Kurz. NICOBARS ; Kamorta, Kurz. 



A tree, attaining 60 ft. (Kurz} ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 3 by 1 in., base 

 cuneate, drying black, midrib depressed above ; petiole - in. Male fl. unknown. 

 Female fl. 4-merous; peduncles ^- in., pubescent, bracts small, linear, deciduous; 

 calyx _^ in., lobes deep, elliptic glabrous qr nearly so ; corolla - in., short-campanu- 

 late, lobes deep, oblong-ovate ; staminodes 4 glabrous ; ovary glabrous except at the 

 apex, 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 2, erect, slender, hairy, long, base connate. 

 Berries globular, size of a small cherry, smooth, 4-celled, 4-seeded ; albumen equable. 

 Kurz says that the style is simple thick. 



21. D. microphylla, B'edd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 218, and For. Man. 145; 

 leaves small ovate-oblong cuneate at both ends glabrescent except the midrib 

 beneath, flowers axillary subsessile, calyx-lobes ovate. D. buxifolia, Hiern in 

 Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 218. D. vaccmioides, Wall. Cat. 4130, as to Penang 

 and Singapore examples ; Hiern I. c. 230, as to all the Malay examples, not ofLindl. 

 Leucoxylum buxifolium, Blume Bijd. 1169 ; Choisy Mem. Ternstr. p. 43, t. 2. 



" CANARA, MYSORE, BABABOODUN and ANAMALLAY HILLS; Gibson, Beddome, &c. 

 MALACCA ; Maingay, n. 966, Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3643), Walker, &c. PENANG 

 and SINGAPORE, WaUich. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



A large tree ; branchlets in the Malay glabrescent, in the Malabar subpersistently 

 hirsute. Leaves l by - in., glabrous above, coriaceous, nerves obscure ; petiole ^ 



