182 MB HIEKN, ON EBENACE^E. 



Peduncles axillary, solitary, crowded in upper axils, puberulous, recurved, -jJj J in. long, 

 1-flowered; bracts caducous. 



. Flowers glabrous, about in. long; calyx -$j-in. long, hemispherical-campanulate, 

 with 5 shallow apiculate lobes ; corolla 5-fid, with oval spreading lobes ; stamens in one 

 case 30 !, glabrous, nearly equal, inserted on the glabrous receptacle ; filaments short, straight ; 

 anthers about J in. long, 2-celled, dehiscing laterally from apex; ovary 0. 



9 . Fruiting calyx accrescent, exceeding the young fruit, J in. high and broad, really 

 5-lobed at apex but apparently 5-fid by calyx being plicate and reflexed downwards and out- 

 wards into 5 sides; quasi-lobes broadly ovate dilated at base and plicate so as to make the 

 calyx 5-winged; styles 5, connate at base, -j^ in. long, glabrous; stigmas bifid; young fruit 

 depresso-globose, Jin. high, glabrous, 8?-celled; ripe fruit globose, umbilicate at apex, 

 shining, | 1 in. in diameter ; fruiting calyx pateriform, | 1 in. across, -^ in. high, with 

 raised border above, plicate ; seeds compressed, | in. long by -fa in. wide. 



S. Africa, Delagoa Bay, Forbes ! 34. 



37. DIOSPYEOS ATTENUATA, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL p. 182. n. 18 (1860). 



D. foliis alternis, anguste ovatis vel oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi cuneatis, tenuiter 

 coriaceis, glabratis, breviter petiolatis, creberrime venulosis; floribus masculis 3 10-nis, 

 subsessilibus, oblongis, 4 5-meris, staminibus 4 5 ; floribus femineis solitariis, ovario 4-Zo- 

 culari, fructibus ovoideo-conicis, acuminatis, subglabrescentibus, 2 S-spermis, albumine non 

 ruminato. 



Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. (Part vn.) p. 28. t. 139 (1871). 



A moderate-sized tree; young shoots appressedly puberulous, quickly glabrescent; leaves 

 alternate, narrowly ovate or oblong, acuminate at apex, more or less narrowed at base, 

 quickly glabrescent, thinly subcoriaceous, 2 4 in. long by f 1 in. wide; petioles j\ in. 

 long; midrib depressed above; net-veins very close together, in relief on both sides, delicate. 

 <J . Flowers clustered, 3 10 together, sessile or subsessile on in. long axillary 

 nodules, strigose with black and subferruginous mixed hairs, 4 5-merous; calyx -^ in. long, 

 4 5-fid, hairy on both sides, lobes narrowly deltoid. Corolla slender in bud, much ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, 4 5-lobed, 1^ in. long, lobes rather shorter than the tube; stamens 

 4 5, in one row, anthers glabrous, connective, prolonged at apex, filaments short, without 

 or with light brown hairs; ovary or rudimentary, conical, with light ferruginous hairs. 



9 . Flowers solitary, sessile ; calyx J J in. long, lobes more or less reflexed at the 

 margin; corolla but little exceeding the calyx; staminodes 4 5; stigmas 2, short; ovary 

 hairy, 4-celled, ovoid; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit conical, with an ovoid base and acuminate 

 apex, pale, softly hairy or nearly glabrescent, 2 3-seeded; fruiting calyx loose, deeply 

 4 5-lobed, not accrescent ; seeds oblong, shining, acuminate ; albumen not ruminated. 

 Ceylon, Pasdoon Corle, Thwaites! C.P. 3478. 



38. DIOSPYROS ACUTA, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL p. 182. n. 17 (1860). 



D, foliis alternis, lanceolato-oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi subrotundatis, coriaceis, 

 glabris, robuste petiolatis, nervis inconspicuis ; floribus masculis aggregatis, sessilibus, 4 5- 



