184 MR HIERN, ON 



fruit i in. high, 4-fid with acutely deltoid lobes, erect; young fruit 4-celled, 2 cells of which 

 are each 1 -seeded. 



Local name, Aumbce. West tropical Africa, Guinea, Thonning ! , common in the vicinity 

 'of the shore ; Cape Coast, Brass ! 



I have without doubt referred this plant to Diospyros, thus following the suggestions 

 of Messrs Bentham and Planchon. See Niger Flora p. 442 (1849) and Annal. Sc. Nat., ser. 

 IV. vol. 3. p. 293 (1855). 



Plate V. fig. 1. A fruiting branch, from Brass' specimen in Hb. Mus. Brit, natural size. 



40. DIOSPYROS FULIGINEA, sp. nov. 



D. foliis ovali-oblongis, apice anguste et valde acuminatis^ basi scepius rotundatis, glabris vel 

 subtus subglabris, coviaceis, costd superne depressd, venis inconspicuis, margine tenuiter revoluto, 

 petiolo tereti, robusto, fiasco; fructibus ternis, 8-locularibus, 8-spermis, in cymis disiinctis 

 axillaribus fuligineo-hispidis dispositis ; calyce fructifero aperte campanulato, 4 fido, fuligineo- 

 hispido, lobis deltoideis> erecto-patentibus, non plicatis. 



Branches cinereous, scattered more or less with .small fuliginous spots, gtabrescent; young 

 shoots fuliginous-hispidulous ; leaves alternate, oval-oblong, narrowly and usually suddenly 

 acuminate at apex, usually rounded at base, glabrous or scattered with short appressed 

 inconspicuous hairs beneath, coriaceous, 4| 7 in. long by 1J 2| in. wide, midrib depressed 

 above, veins inconspicuous, margin finely revolute; petioles stout, terete, YuscoUs, with short 

 dark hairs, \ in. long. 



9. Cymes many-flowered (?), fuliginous-hispid, fin. long exclusive of the- flowers, bearing 

 in one case 3 fuliginous-hispid fruits with firm pedicels | in. long; young fruit globose, 

 with conical apex, exceeding the calyx, 8-celled, 8-seeded ; fruiting calyx widely campanulate, 

 about i in. in diameter, 4-tid, thickly coriaceous, not plicate ; lobes deltoid, spreading. 



Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 2486. 



41. DIOSPYROS BRANDISIANA, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. vol. XL. Pt. n. p. 72. 



n. 93 (1871). 



D. foliis ovalibus, alternis, apice acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel acutis, chartaceis, adnltis 

 glabris vel secus costas sparse appresse hirsutis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus cymosis e ramis 

 ortis vel axillaribus, 5 4-mms, calyce o-fdo, lobis lineari-lanceolatis, acutis, corolld 5-fidd, 

 lobis obtusis, staminibus circiter 16,. filamentis brevissimis, pubescentibus, antheris glabris; 

 in floribus femineis staminodiis 5, ovario dense fulvo-pubescente, 10-loculari, fructu imrnatura 

 ovoideo, acuminato. 



Flora, 1871, p. 342. 



A tree with young parts shortly pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong- to elliptic-oblong 

 and oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or acute at base, entire, chartaceous, 4 6-^-8 in. 

 long, the adult ones glabrous pr usually sparsely and appressedly hirsute on the midrib; petioles 

 ^ in. long, puberulous, somewhat depressed above. Flowers ^ & m - l n g ^ n ^e bud, 

 pentamerous or tetramerous, in rather dense much-branched minutely-bracteated black-brown 

 cymes springing from the branches or axillary ; pedicels ^5 J in. long, afterwards elongated' 



