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Ebenaceae. 



Maba buxifolia, Pers.— F.B.I., iii. p. 551 ; For. Fl. Burma, ii. 

 p. 139 ; Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss., v. (1905) p. 227. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, in deciduous jungle, 540 m., Kerr, 594, 

 1134. 



Distr, S.E. Asia, Australia, Trop. Africa. 



Diospyros ehretioides, Wall. — F.B.I., iii. p. 559 ; For. Fl. Burma, ii. 

 p. 129. 



Chiengmai, in deciduous jungle on Doi Sootep, 300-540 m., Kerr, 

 577, 1147. 



Distr. Burma. 



Diospyros Kerrii, Craib, D. Packmanni, C. B. Clarke, habitu 

 similis sed calycis haud ferruginei lobis fere e basi liberis facile 

 distinguenda. 



Arbor 9 m. aha (ex Kerr); ramuli primo dense adpresse ferrugineo- 

 hirsuti, plus minusve glabrescentes. Folia lanceolata vel oblongo- 

 lanceolata, apice acuminata, subacuta, basi cuneata vel rotundata, 

 4-10*5 cm. longa, 2-4 cm. lata, rigide chartacea, margine integra, 

 supra juventute costa tantum pubescentia, mox omnino glabra, 

 subtus costa indumento ut ramulis novellis, nervis lateralibus 

 utrinque circiter 8 intra marginem arcuatis pagina utraque 

 juventute conspicuis mox fere obscuris ; petioli circiter 5 mm. 

 longi, indumento ramulorum. Cymae <$ axillares, pauciflorae, 

 pedunculo communi vix 1 cm. longo indumento ut ramulis 

 suffultae. Calycis segmenta 4, subrotundata, 3 mm. longa, 

 2*75 mm. lata, extra adpresse albo-pubescentia, intra glabra. Corolla 

 urceolata, extra ut calyce pubescens, intra superne albo- 

 pilosa ; tubus 3*5 mm. longus ; lobi 4, lanceolati, acutiusculi, sub 

 anthesin recurvi, circa 4 mm. longi, 2 mm. lati. Antherae geminae, 

 14, acuminatae, filameato communi 1 mm. longo glabro, iilamentis 

 partialibus 1-1*75 mm. longis parce albo-hirsutis. Ovarii rudimen- 

 tum parvum, subglobosum, apice pilis paucis albis ornatum. — Craib, 

 Kew Bull. 1911, p. 408. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, in evergreen jungle, 660 m., Kerr, 1090. 



Diospyros mollis, Griffith, Journ. Agric. Hortic. Soc. Ind., iii. 

 (1844) p. 145 ; For. Fl. Burma, ii. p. 130. 

 Chiengmai (ex Griffith, I.e.). 

 Distr. Burma. 



Diospyros Packmanni, C. B. Clarke, F.B.I., iii. p. 564. 

 Chiengmai, 300 m., Kerr, 1818 ; Bangkok, Murton, 12, Zimmer- 

 mann, 172 — often cultivated. 

 Distr. Tavoy. 

 Lao name, M'Chunn (ex Kerr). 



Diospyros rhodocalyx, Kurz, For. Fl. Burma, ii. p. 133. 

 Siam (ex Kurz, I.e.). 



Diospyros siamensis, Hochr. 

 PI. Bog. Exsicc, No. 73. 



Very closely allied to D. Embryopteris, Pers. Sehomburgk, 115, 

 which Williams erroneously states " was not kept," is also allied. 



