Diospyros.~] xc. EBENACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 563 



larger, \ in. long and broad, with a distinct tube ; corolla as of the male. Fruit 

 by in., oblong cylindric, glabrescent ; fruiting calyx very slightly enlarged. Female 

 flowers and fruit here are described from Griffith's examples ; but by Hiern from 

 Maingay's n. 972 female (see next species). 



31. I>. decipiens, Clarke, ; leaves elliptic acuminate glabrous, female 

 flowers sessile solitary, calyx 4-partite, lobes foliaceous margins hardly reflexed 

 little hairy, corolla salvershaped tube 4-gonal densely fulvous-silky. D. 

 flavicans, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 205, as to the female plant 

 partly. 



MALACCA; Maingay (n. 972, female only). 



Closely resembling D. flavicans female, and taken as part of it by Hiern. 

 Female calyx (shortly after flowering) ; lobes 3- in. and upwards, ovate acute, with 

 scattered fulvous hairs or nearly glabrous, tube or obscure. Fruit 1 in., cylindric, 

 glabrous ; fruiting calyx unchanged. This does not show the bracts conspicuous in 

 every example of D. flavicans. Heifer's n. 3640, from Tenasserim. a very poor 

 specimen with young male buds, might be the male of D. decipiens, or D. flavicans as 

 proposed doubtfully by Hiern. Heifer's n. 423, doubtfully referred here by Hiern 

 1. c., has totally different leaves and is quite distinct, may be D. lucida, Wall. 



32. D. stricta, Roxb. Hort. JBeng. 40, and Fl. 2nd. ii. 539; leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate sparsely pilose beneath, male fl. subsessile in small 

 clusters, corolla salvershaped tomentose without, fruit ellipsoid glabrous nar- 

 rowed at the base. Wall. Cat. 4121 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 232 ; Hiern in Trans. 

 Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 201 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. 

 Fl. ii. 137, as to descript. 



EAST BENGAL ; Silhet and Comilla, Eoxburgh (Hort. Gale.) ; (Griffith, Kew Distrib. 

 n. 3624). 



A tall slender conical tree with straight trunk (Roxburgh) ; branchlets soon 

 glabrous. Leaves 3 by 1| in., base obtuse, ultimately glabrous above except the 

 midrib, coriaceous ; primary nerves oblique not prominent, secondary obscure ; petiole 

 i in. Male fl. 3-6 together ; bracts in., numerous, ovate ; calyx ^ in., deeply 

 lobed, lobes ovate apiculate ; corolla-tube | in., narrowed upwards, lobes 4, in., 

 ovate; stamens 14-16, glabrous. Female fl. unknown. Fruit 1 J by |-1 in., solitary; 

 peduncle in. ; fruiting- calyx small, lobes \ in. long and broad, ovate. 



SECT. VI. IMelonia (Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc, xii. 146, in chief 

 part). Leaves alternate or subopposite. Floiuers 4-5-merous ; male cymose or 

 fascicled, female solitary or fascicled. Calyx deeply lobed or tubular- campanu- 

 late, often much larger dissimilar in the female. Corolla in the bud ovoid- 

 tubular, densely fulvous- or rufous-sericeous without. Albumen ruminated 

 (where known). 



* Leaves when mature more or less hairy beneath, male Jlowers distinctly 

 cymose with tubular-campanulate calyx. 



33. D. Tupni, Such-Ham. Journ. i. 183, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 

 112, not of Hiern ; leaves (not large) elliptic obtuse at both ends reticulating 

 nerves raised on the upper surface, male fl. cymose, calyx short^cylindric, corolla 

 yellow-woolly without, female solitary short-peduncled with 4-5-gonal calyx. 

 D. rubiginosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 385; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 239. D. exsculpta, 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142, syn. excl. not of Ham. D. melanoxylon, Hiern 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 159, in great part. 



WEST DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan to Mysore, Hamilton, &c. JUBBTJL- 

 POKE; Griffith. 



A small tree; branchlets woolly. Leaves 3 by 2 in. (rarely so large even when 

 mature), alternate and subopposite, base mostly rounded or subcordate, or if obtusely 



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