MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 173 



(short?) lobes; corolla twice the length of the calyx, 4-fid, with acute, patent, pale-yellow, 

 lobes white at the base ; staminodes 8 10 ; styles 4 connate at the base. Fruit glabrous, 

 8-celled, in. thick, globose, shining ; fruiting calyx forming a shallow 4-cornered cup for 

 base of fruit, with 4 reflexed undulate-plicate retuse lobes ; in. in diameter. 



According to Moritzi this tree resembles D. Ebenum, Linn, fil., and has even in the 

 young twigs indications of black wood which becomes quite black in the older branches. 

 The male flowers open in March. 



In woods. Java. De Vriese! $ fl. ; Zollinger! n. 1156; Dr Horsfield! Ebenaceae, n. 4, 

 in fruit ; Binnendijk ! fl. ; Hasskarl ! ; Blume ! 



23. DIOSPYROS HALESIOIDES, Grisebach Cat. PL Cubensium, p. 168. n. 2 (1866). 



D. foliis alternis, obovato-ovalibus, apice acutatis, basi obtuse cuneatis, subcoriaceis, pellu- 

 ddo-punctatis, subtus fulvo-velutinis, robuste venosis, suprd pubescerttibus ; floribus masculis in 

 cymis brevissimis axillaribus dispositis, 1 3-nw, velutinis, calyce breviter ^-fido campanulato, 

 corolld urceolato-oblongd, breviter 4>-fidd, lobis ovatis acuminatis, staminibus 12, glabris ; fruc- 

 tibus solitariis, subsessilibus, depresso-globosis, ferrugineo-sericeis, 8-locularibus ; calyce fructi- 

 fero ampliato, lobis erecto-patentibus. 



Terminal buds ferruginous-hairy; young shoots pubescent at apex, glabrescent shining 

 and terete below. Leaves alternate, somewhat obovate, acute and apiculate at apex, cuneate 

 to an obtuse base, subcoriaceous, fulvo-velutinous and conspicuously rich-veined beneath, 

 darker nearly glabrescent and nitescent above, except veins ; midrib depressed above ; 

 1 2 in. long by J 1| in. wide, pellucid-punctate; petioles ^ ^ in. long, ferruginous- 

 pubescent; bracts ovate, small, fulvo-pubescent. 



$ . Flowers \ in. long, in (1 ) 3-flowered sessile or subsessile fulvous-hairy short cymes, 

 on short pedicels ; calyx campanulate, fulvo-velutinous, unequally 4-lobed, \ \ in. long ; lobes 

 deltoid, acute, less than half the length of the tube, unequal. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous 

 inside, campanulate-oblong, f J in. long, 4-fid ; lobes ovate-lanceolate. Stamens (11 ) 12, 

 glabrous, unequal, 8 in 2 rows opposite lobes of corolla, the inner 4 of which are on shorter 

 filaments than the outer 4 and inserted above them (or united with them in 4 pairs) and 

 4 alternate with the corolla-lobes, and inserted on corolla near its base ; filaments slender ; 

 ovary rudimentary, fulvoushairy. 



<J. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary, sessile, depresso-globose, 1 in. thick by fin. high, 

 ferruginous- silky, 8-celled; fruiting calyx accrescent, deeply 4-fid, somewhat spreading, 1| in. 

 across the top ; lobes J-ellipsoidal, with margins somewhat recurved ; albumen not ruminated. 



Eastern Cuba, Wright/ 2936 <5 fl., 2937 in fruit. 



24. DIOSPYROS BORNEENSIS, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis, apice breviter acuminatis, basi angustatis, subglabris, tenuiter 

 coriaceis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus femineis secus ramos vetustos glomeratis, pedunculatis, 

 pubescentibus, calyce tubuloso subintegro, corolld 5-fidd, lobis ovalibus reflexis obtusis; stami- 

 nodiis 10, uniserialibus, glabris, basi corollce insertis ; stylo 4-/o6o; ovario conico, ferrugineo- 

 tomentoso, 8-loculari, loculis 1-ovulatis; fructibus magnis, globosis, tomentosis. 



