180 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^.: 



by black blotches; 2 5 Jin. long by 1J 3fin, wide; petioles -^ in. long. Bracts -im- 

 bricated, subtomentose with grey hair, rounded, -j^in. high by Jin. wide, surrounding the 

 base of the calyx. 



<?. Flowers 1 or few together, axillary on young shoots or clustered on the shoots 

 of previous season, sessile; calyx tubular, somewhat campanulate, with usually 6 short teeth 

 at apex, covered outside with short brown or cinereous tomentum, J | in. high ; corolla 

 campanulate, 6 5-lobed, shortly ferruginous-sericeous outside, glabrous inside ; tube \ ^ in. 

 long ; lobes J in. long, spreading and recurved at extremities. Stamens 30 40, glabrous, 

 inserted on the receptacle, nearly equal ; anthers linear \ in. long ; filaments about -^ in. 

 long, often somewhat combined at base ; ovary only represented by a trace of hair. 



9. Flowers arranged as in <J. Fruit sessile, solitary, on branches deprived of their 

 leaves (in the dry state), very glutinous, ex Poiret, glabrous ex Alph. DC., depresso-globose', 

 umbilicate at the apex, about 1 in. high by 1J in. thick, 8 12-celled ; fruit-calyx cup 1 

 shaped, about \ the height of the fruit which it receives, 6-lobed at apex, coriaceous; seeds 

 cinereous, f in. long ; albumen not ruminated, white. 



Mauritius, Commerson ! ; Sieber ! 114; on the crest of the mountain to the left of 

 the second Fenetre, above the French fort, Sept. $ fl., Ayres ! ; in forests on mountains 

 at Savane and at Trois Hots, Fl. May, Dec. Ayres MSS. ; a specimen from Round Island 

 near Mauritius without flower or fruit by Sir H, Barkly / probably belongs to this species ; 

 Madagascar, Gaertner, Chapelierl 



34. DIOSPYROS CHRYSOPHYLLOS, Poir. Encycl. Meth. V. p. 433, n. 12 (1804). 



D. ramulis flexuosis, foliis lanceolato-ollongis, apice utrinque obtuse angustatis, glabris^ 

 coriaceis, petiolatis ; Jloribus diceeis, 1 -3-nis, snbsessilibus, 5 4-mem, axillaribus ; calyce 

 cyathiformi, extus pubescente, apice lobato, corolld, profunde lobatd, staminibus 11 15, glabris 

 ovario' in floribus femineis glabro, W-loculari, stylis 5 ; fructibus solitariis, globosis, mtidis* 

 7 \Q-locularibus, calyce fructifero subtrwncato, pateriformi. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. yili. p. 225. n. 13 (1844). 



A shrub or tree with glabrous flexuous branches, subscandent (?). Leaves lanceolate-oblong 

 somewhat narrowed at base, usually more or less narrowed towards apex, obtuse, 2|-^5| in. 

 long by f 1| in. wide, besides petiole ^ ^ in. long ; somewhat paler and brilliant beneath 

 (golden-coloured) ; coriaceous, margins reflexed. Flowers subsessile, axillary, pentamerous or 

 tetramerous. Calyx ferruginous-pubescent outside, cup-shaped, dentate at apex. Corolla 

 ferruginous-sericeous outside, deeply lobed. 



<J. Flowers 1 3 together. Stamens 11 15. 



9. Flowers solitary, more than fin. long. Calyx -^ in, long; lobes ^in. deep, widely 

 ovate, wavy at margins, obtuse ; tube very crass especially at base, felted outside, glabrous 

 and shining inside. Corolla with 5 short imbricated rounded lobes, constricted at top of 

 calyx, hairy outside in upper part, often remaining at top of young fruit. Staminodes 9, 

 glabrous. Ovary glabrous but surrounded at base with a ring of hairs, 10-celled; styles 5, 

 sericeous at base ; stigmas lobed at apex. Fruit glabrous, globose about 1 in. in diameter, 

 shining, green, 7 10-celled. Fruiting calyx subtruncate, | in. across at top, glabrescent. 



Mauritius, Bojer !, Gardner/, Boutoni, Commerson! 



