166 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



Corolla pubescent outside, glabrous inside, exceeding the calyx, shortly lobed, lobes pointed. 

 Staminodes 6 8, in one row, inserted at base of the corolla, glabrous. Ovary ovoid or 

 conical, sericeous, terminated by 2 short hirsute bilobed styles, 4- or 8-celled and -ovuled. 

 Fruit glabrate subglobose, 1 in. in diameter, edible, often slightly wrinkled, 4> 5- seeded. 

 Fruiting calyx somewhat or but little increased, with undulated margins, appressed to fruit 

 or spreading. Seeds shining, | | in. long; albumen cartilaginous, somewhat ruminated; 

 embryo straight; cotyledons linear-lanceolate; radicle shorter than the cotyledons. 



Difficult to distinguish by technical characters from the Indian species Diospyros hirsuta, 

 Linn, fil., of which it may be taken as the African representative; its forms also are 

 subject to considerable variation. 



Tropical Africa. Abyssinia; native name Aj6 or Ajejeh, near Docheladscheranne, Schimper! 

 sect. ii. nn. 655, 1243, in flower, June ; Petit in Hb. Franq. iv. Coll. n. 434, in fruit ; Schimper 

 (1862)! n.155, September, 4400 ft. alt.; Nubia, Fayohel, Kotschy ! n. 470, in fruit; Dr Martin St 

 Angel in young fruit; Tinn6 Expedition, nn. 170, 394, fruit in flavour like that of Theobroma 

 Cacao; Benischangul, Cienkowski, n. 966; Gallabat, Matamma, Schweinfurth! n. 973, 974; Mo- 

 zambique, between Tette and the sea coast, Dr Kirk ! in fruit ; near Lupata, Dr Kirk ! in fruit, 

 January ; native names, Sechuana dialect, Makudima; Tette dialect, Kasinjamtolmera ; 50 miles 

 above Tette, Kaurabassa; Sena, Dr Peters!; Niger, Barter! 1208, 1334; Senegambia, Le- 

 prieur !, Whitfield!, Lelierre!, Perrottet/, Dr Daniell! ('Monkey Guava"); Livingstone Expe- 

 dition, (" Mocheka") Dr Kirk!; Angola, Distr. Golungo Alto, Dr Welwitsch! 2529, frequent, 

 " M: usolveira ;" Benguela, in woods from Serra da Xella towards Mumpulla, Dr Welwitsch! 

 2530 ; Congo, in rocky and sandy woods near Ambriz, Dr Welwitsch ! 2528 ; Cape Coast, 

 Brass ! 



13. DIOSPYROS BURMANICA, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XL. Pt. ii. p. 73. 



n. 96 (1871). 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibtts, apice obtusis vel brevissime acuminatis, basi rotundis vel sub- 

 cuneatis, breviter petiolatis, tenuiter coriaceis, junioribus supra tomento tenui fugaci adspersis 

 subtus appresse tomentosis; floribus masculis 4 Q-meris, breviter cymosis, tomentosis, urceolato- 

 oblongis, staminibus scepius 8, rarius 14 16, glabris ; floribus femineis solitariis, fructibus 

 globosis, glabris, nitentibus, vulgo 4:-spermis, albumine seminum pukherrime ruminate, calyce 

 fructifero margine undulato. 



A small tree with young parts appressedly fulvo-pubescent. Branches cinereous. Leaves 

 alternate, oval, obtuse or slightly acuminate at apex, rounded or wedge-shaped at base, 

 thinly coriaceous, covered when young especially beneath with appressed pubescence, at 

 length more or less glabrate, 1 6 in. long by ^ 2 in wide ; veins not prominent ; petioles 



. Flowers cream-coloured, urceolate-oblong, 4 6- usually 5-merous, $ |in. long, 

 fulvo-tomentose, in short 3 5-flowered axillary cymes, on young branches. Calyx \ \ in. 

 long, hemispherical, tomentose on both sides, shortly 4 6-fid ; lobes deltoid or cordate-ovate. 

 Corolla shortly 4 5-lobed, glabrous inside ; lobes rounded, reflexed. Stamens glabrous, 



