174 MB HIEEN, ON EBENACE^. 



A tree ; wood yellow, tough and stringy with black streaks. Terminal buds ferruginous- 

 tomentose ; young shoots puberulous ; branches dark, glabrescent, terete. Leaves oblong, 

 alternate, thinly coriaceous, shortly acuminate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, puberu- 

 lous when young, glabrescent, 5 6J in. long by 1| 2 in. wide, including petiole i J in. 

 long; canaliculate on upper side, midrib depressed above, lateral veins about 12 on each 

 side, distinct on under side, indistinct above, forming (by anastomosing) a marginal vein 

 clearly marked beneath ; tertiary veins oblique. 



9 . Flowers clustered, greenish white, large, on distinct fulvo-tomentose peduncles $ f in. 

 long inserted on tubercles on older branches. Bracts small, obtuse, -^ ^TT m - l n g> a * base 

 of peduncles. Calyx about f in. long by J in. thick, finely fulvo-tomentose outside, appress- 

 edly silky inside, tubular, irregularly and shallowly toothed at apex. Corolla about 8 in. 

 long when straightened, nearly glabrous but with ciliate margins to the lobes, 5-fid ; lobes 

 oval, imbricated, reflexed. Staminodes 10, glabrous, in one row, inserted at base of corolla. 

 Style 4-lobed; ovary conical, ferruginous-tomentose, 8-celled; cells 1-ovuled; dissepiments thin. 

 Fruit large, with a sweet black pulp, globose, fulvo-tomentose, crowned with short style, 

 surrounded half-way up by burst calyx. 



Native name malam kuning. Tamgong Vinbong, Labuan, rather uncommon, Mr Motley ! 7. 



25. DlOSPYROS BATOCANA, sp. HOV. 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus, utrinque rotundatis, coriaceis, glabris, supra nitentibus, subtus 

 pallidis albidis, margine refiexo, nervis tenuibus, petiolis rugosis ; floribus masculis sessilibus 

 glomeratis secus ramos annotinos in nodulis dispositis, pentameris, fuligineo-hispidis; calyce 

 apice lobato, corolld crassd, avoided; staminibus circiter 12, glabris, inosqualibus, ovarii rudi- 

 mento hispido. 



A large bush, quite or nearly glabrous except the buds and inflorescence; branches 

 nigro-cinereous, spreading at about 45. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptical, shining above, 

 whitish beneath, firmly coriaceous, glabrous or with a few minute black setae beneath, more 

 or less rounded at both ends, with reflexed margins and veins in delicate relief on both 

 sides, 2 2| in. long by | 1 in. wide ; petioles J in. long, thick, angular, obliquely and 

 in other directions wrinkled, often twisted or recurved. 



<J. Inflorescence arranged on nodules, covered with fuliginous and ferruginous hispid 

 hairs, on the branches of previous season ; flowers sessile, several together, clustered ; bracts 

 at base^ of calyx ; calyx fuliginous and ferruginous-hispid on both sides, 5-lobed at apex ; 

 corolla fuliginous-hispid outside, 5-fid, pale and glabrous inside, crass, ovoid; lobes imbri- 

 cated sinistrorsely, obtuse; stamens 12 16 (?), glabrous, unequal, on short filaments; ovary 

 wanting, represented by ferruginous hairs. 



Tropical Africa, Setoka, " Mikumbo," Batoka country, Dr Kirk /, fruit eaten, <J fl. July. 



26. DIOSPYROS QU^ESITA, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PI. p. 179. n. 7 (1860). 



D. foliis alternis, ellipticis vel oblongis, apice breviter et abrupte acuminatis, obtusis, basi 

 parum angustatis, glabris, coriaceis, petiolatis, nervis reticulatis gracilibus; floribus masculis 

 3 9-nis, breviter cymosis, 4 o-meris, hirsutis, calyce tubuloso apice dentato; staminibus 16, 



