Diospyros.'] xc. EBENACEJJ. (C. B. Clarke.) 567 



with hairs fixed by their middle soon glabrescent, corolla tubular fulvous- 

 tomentose without, stamens 8-9. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 127, and For. Man. 

 145; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 169, portly. 



TINNEVELLY HILLS ; Beddome. CEYLON ; between Kandy and Badulla, Thwaites. 



A middle-sized tree; branchlets glabrous except the tips. Leaves 3| by Ijin., 

 apex obtuse, when very young with scattered hairs fixed by their middle ; petiole 

 in. Male fl.: peduncles |-i in., 5-1 0-flowered, soon glabrate ; calyx | in., cam 

 panulate-tubular, distinctly veined, teeth minute ; stamens nearly glabrous, anthers 

 linear, connective fulvous-pilose below on the back, apex shortly produced, Female 

 fl. solitary on peduncles in. ; calyx \ by ^ in., early glabrescent ; corolla \ in., 

 tubular, narrowed at the mouth, lobes broad ovate mucronate, nearly glabrous within. 

 Fruit 1 in. diam., globose, glabrous, usually 4-seeded. Albumen ruminated (Thwaites). 



46. X>. crumenata, Thwaites Enum. 179 ; leaves elliptic obtuse at both 

 ends early glabrous reticulating nerves prominent, mule cymes small, calyx 

 subtomentose with basifixed hairs, corolla tubular fulvous-hirsute without, 

 stamens about 12. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 126, and For. Man. 145 ; Hiern 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 169. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft., Thwaites. 



A large tree. Leaves 2| by 1^ in. ; but in another example 3 by f in. resembling 

 those of D. affinis ; this example is in ripe fruit and may be D. affinis mixed in the 

 mounting perhaps. Female fl. : peduncles and calyces somewhat, persistently sub- 

 tomentose with basifixed hairs; corolla-tube | in., lobes broad, rounded, plicate, 

 auriculate, densely tomentose within. Otherwise in all respects as D. affinis, of which 

 further material may prove this a variety. 



47. D. opaca, Clarke ; leaves elliptic cuneate at both ends primary nerves 

 thin oblique secondary obscure, male cymes very small, calyx densely sericeous 

 with basitixed hairs, corolla short-tubular tomentose without, stamens about 16. 

 D. affinis, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 169, partly, not of Thwaites. 



CEYLON ; Thwaites. 



Branchlets terete ; bark very smooth. Leaves 3 by 1 in., subobtuse, very opaque, 

 minutely pilose with basifixed hairs, when young soon glabrous ; petiole \ in. Male 

 fl. : cymes almost reduced to fascicles ; calyx ^ in., teeth small; corolla -i in., very 

 deeply lobed ; stamens glabrous, anthers lanceolate. Hiern has widened the diagnosis 

 of D. affinis, so as to include in it this solitary male example of Thwaites, which 

 differs in too many points ; the texture nervation and indumentum of the leaves, the 

 very deeply-lobed male corolla and number of stamens. It may not belong to this 

 section of the genns. 



SEC'^VIL Arg-ophyllum. Leaves alternate, usually large, glabrous 

 above, t/^uing, coriaceous. Flowers 4-5-merous ; males in small cymes, females 

 solitary cr few together, scarcely pedicellate. Calyx deeply lobed, often dis- 

 similar in the female. Corolla in the bud ovoid-tubular, densely fulvous- or 

 rufous-sericeous without. Stamens usually 16 (12-20). Albumen (where 

 known) equable. 



48. D. oleifolia, Wall. Cat. 4128 ; leaves oblong obtusely acuminate, 

 nerves above obscure, male cymes small few-fid., calyx glabrous without densely 

 fulvo-tomentose within, corolla widely tubular fulvous-tomentose without. A. 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 239 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 72, 1877, pt. ii. 

 235, and For. Fl. ii. 132 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 204. 



AMHEBST ; Wallich. PEGU ; Brandis. MABTABAN and TENASSERIM ; frequent, 

 Kurz. DISTEIB. Java. 



A tree, attaining 60 ft. (Kurz) ; branehlets soon glabrous. Leaves &\ by 2 in., 

 opaque, coriaceous, nerves beneath very closely but obscurely reticulate ; petiole ^ in. 



