164 ME HIERlsr, ON EBENACE^E. 



9 . Flowers | in. long, thicker than in the $ , 1 6 together. Margins of calyx-lobes 

 wavy and reflexed. Corolla-lobes reflexed, rounded, mucronate. Staminodes 5 10 ; barren 

 anthers, glabrous or with setose tips, filaments glabrous or hairy. Ovary ovoid, covered 

 with ferruginous or rufous hairs, 4 10-celled. Styles 2 5, short. Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soidal, pale-glabrate or rarely tomentose and ferruginous or rufous, l^in. long, 1 10- 

 seeded. Fruiting calyx stellate-flat or shallow-cupuliform, \ 1 in. in diameter, 4 5-fid ; lobes 

 with reflexed margins. Seeds oblong, usually compressed, transversely scored outside ; al- 

 bumen ruminated. 



The following forms seem to me difficult to separate from D. hirsuta, L. f., but the 

 combination of them all into a single species makes it a very variable and widely spread 

 one. 



D. lucida, Wall. List, n. 4127 (182832), non Hort., Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 233. 

 n. 52 (1844). = (?) D. nilagirica, Bedd. Icon. pi. Ind Or. (Pt. vii.) p. 27. t. 136 (1871). 

 D. Candolleana, Wight, Icon. tt. 1221, 1222 (1850), non Thw. 



D. Moonii, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL p. 182. n. 16 (I860), Bedd. I.e. p. 28. t. 138 (1871). 

 Perhaps a distinct species. 



D. canarica, Bedd. I.e. p. 27. t. 134. = D. oligandra, Bedd. Rep. Forests Madras 1867 

 68 p. 25 (1868) name only. 



D. Thwaitesii, Bedd. I.e. p. 27. t. 135. = D. Candolleana, Thw. I.e. p. 181. n. 14, non 

 Wight. 



The following key serves to contrast the typical characters of these forms, but inter- 

 mediate states exist. 



Ovary (6-) 8 10-celled ; filaments of stamens often hairy. 

 Ovary usually 10-celled. Stamens 5. 



Leaves elliptical, narrowed at base, hirsuta proper. 

 Leaves oblong, wide near base. Moonii. 

 Ovary 8-celled. Stamens 16. nilagirica. 



Ovary 4-celled ; filaments of stamens 10 12, glabrous. 

 Staminodes 4 5. 



Staminodes quite glabrous. Fruit pale, glabrate. Candolleana. 

 Staminodes setose at tip. Fruit rufous-hairy, at length glabrate. Thwaitesii. 

 Staminodes 8 10, glabrous, canarica. 

 Hirsuta proper. Ceylon, Thwaites! 382. 



Moonii. Ceylon, Thwaites! 2833; Moon!; Walker!; (?) Tennaserim and Andaman, 

 Hb. Heifer! 3632. 



Nilagirica. Sispara ghat, Nilgiris, India, Major Beddome ; (lucida} Singapore, Wallichl 

 4127; Malacca, Maingay ! 970, 973; Griffith! 3637. 



Candolleana. Courtallum and Quilon, Wight! 1715, Canara, Mangalor, Wight! 1728; 

 Hohenacker! 591 (Native name Karmarn); Concan, Dr Gibson! 128; Goa, Dalzell! ; 

 Moollis, Dr Ritchie/ 96, 3 (tree 24ft. high); Phoondu Ghaut, Dr Ritchie! 96/2 (tree 

 36ft); Ram Ghaut, Dr Ritchie! 96 (Native name Kalevin). 



Thwaitesii. Ceylon, Local name Homedereya-gass, Thwaites! 3394. 



