16 EBENACE&. [DIOSPYBOS. 



part) ; Coolie Fl. Bomb, ii, 104; PrainBeng. PI. 653. Vern. Neori, bhori 

 (Bundelkhand). 



A small or medium-sized tree, sometimes armed. Trunk usually crooked 

 covered with dark rust-coloured nearly smooth bark. Young branches 

 softly pubescent. Leaves 2-4 in. long, ovate, bluntly acumiE ate, usually 

 rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, margins undulate, softly pubes- 

 cent when young, but finally glabrous on both surfaces, petioles - in. 

 long. MALE flowers in small few-flowered panicles ; bracts ovate, acute, 

 ciliate. Calyx glabrous outside and inside ; lobes 4, ciliate on tho 

 margins. Corolla about 3 or 4 times as long as the calyx, urceolate, 

 white ; lobes shorter than the tube. Stamens 16, in opposite pairs, 

 united at the base, the outer longest. Anthers lanceolate, awned, 

 glabrous. FEM. flowers axillary, solitary, nodding ; pedicels stout, 

 shorter than the flowers, bearing 2 small ovate ciliate bracts above the 

 middle. Calyx glabrous except the ciliate margins ; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 accrescent. Staminodes 4. Ovary globose, glabrous, 8-celled. Fruit 

 globose, about 1 in. in diam., supported by the enlarged reflexed calyx- 

 lobes, reddish-brown. 



Bundelkhand (Edgeworth, Mrs. Bell). These are the only specimens 

 I have seen of Roxburgh's D. montanafiom the Upper Gacgetic area. 

 Flowers during the hot season. DISTRIB. : Behar, Rohilasghur (Wall 

 Cat. 4115), the Circars (Kpxburgh), Konkan, Malabar, Belgaum, also 

 in Burma. It is easily distinguished from D. cordifolia by the shape 

 and thinness ot the leaves, by the male flowers being in panicles, and 

 by the number of the staminodes. 



3. D. Kanjilali* Duthie in Ind. For. Vol. xxxi {1905) 307 ; Brandis 

 Ind. Trees 713. 



A small or medium-sized tree with a fairly tall trunk. Bark greenish or 

 ashy-grey and quite smooth like that of the Guava, exfoliating in thin 

 scales. Branches forming a rather narrow and (open crown, not spines- 

 cent. Leaves 1|-5| in. long, elliptic-suborbicular, thicker than those of 

 D. cordifolia, usually densely tomentose when young, becoming rigidly 

 coriaceous and almost glabrous in age; midrib impressed above, pro- 

 minent beneath, petioles -J- in. MALE flowers in short 3-flowered 

 cymes, pedicels & in. ; tracts ovate, sub-acute, ciliate on the margins. 

 Calyx-lobes broad and rounded, pubescent on both sides and with 

 ciliate margins. Corolla fa- fa in - long, slightly pubescent outside, 

 glabrous within, pale-green. Stamens 16, in opposite pairs, united 

 below; anthers awned, glabrous. FEM. flowers axillary, solitary, 

 nodding, pedicels about i in. Calyx in fruit accrescent ; lobes spread- 

 ing, broader than in D. cordifolia. Corolla dark-green, otherwise like 

 that of male. Staminodes 8, alternately longer, the longer ones often 

 toothed near the acuminate apex, the shorter ones obtuse. Fruit up to 

 1 in. in diara., globose. Seeds about in., sublunate. 



