MR HIERN, ON EBENACEJE. 185 



tomentose ] bracts minute, oblong-lanceolate, tomentose ; calyx covered with slight black or 

 dark brown tomentum, ^ in. long, deeply lobed, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla- 

 tube appressedly pubescent, ^in, long, rather widened towards the base and commonly 

 5-sided, lobes equalling the tube, oblong, obtuse. 



(J. Stamens 14 16 ; filaments very short, pubescent; anthers linear, mucronulate, glabrous. 

 Receptacle hairy, 



2 . Staminodes 5 ; ovary densely fulvo-pubescent, 10-celled, terminated by the rather 

 long simple crass style. Very young fruit, ovoid-conical, acuminate, shortly pubescent. 



Burma, Martaban, Dombamee forests, Dr Brandis ! 



42. DIOSPYROS SUBACUTA, sp, nov. 



D. fruticosa, foliis ovato-oblongis, distichis, apice acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel subcor- 

 datis, sub-glabris, margine subciliatis, nitidis, snbsessilibus, nervis inconspicuis ; fructibus soli- 

 tariis, axillaribus, oblongis, apice conicis, appresse pubescentibus, pedunculatis ; calyce fructifero 

 4>-Jido, pateriformi, pubescente. 



Shrub ; young parts rufous-pilose-hispid with scattered hairs ; branches dark, terete, 

 glabrescent. Leaves ovate-oblong, distichous, subcoriaceous, glabrous or nearly so and shining, 

 acuminate at apex, rounded or subcordate at base, subsessile, rich brown beneath in the 

 dry state, darker above with elevated midrib ; veins inconspicuous ; 1 3 in. long by | 1 in. 

 wide, spreading ; petioles ^ fa in. long, thick, dark, subpilose ; margins of leaves subciliate 

 with pilose long hairs. 



9 . Fruit solitary, axillary, f in. long by ^ in. thick, oblong, conical at apex, covered 

 with short appressed brown pubescence, with several (?) cells ; flowering peduncles ^ in. (or 

 more?) erect-patent, rough; bracts caducous; fruiting calyx 4-fid, pubescent, Jin. across by 

 in. high, shallowly cup-shaped. 



Madagascar, S!f Marie, Boimn! 



43. DIOSPYROS PRURIENS, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 110. n. 2 (1852). 



D. foliis alternis, ovali-oblongis, apice breviter acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel subcordatis, 

 tenuiter coriaceis, supra nervo excepto subglabrescentibus, subtus prcesertim secus nervos 

 piloso-hirsutis, breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis axillaribus, pedunculis confertis, 1 2- 

 floris, calyce 4>-partito, utrinque piloso, corolld profunde 4t-fidd, extus sericed, lobis obtusis, 

 gtaminibus 13 14, glabris, hypoyynis; floribus femineis 4 5-meris, staminodiis 4 5, 

 glabris, ovario ferrugineo-hispido, 4-loculari, loculis \-ovnlallis; fructibus piloso-prurientibiis, 

 ovoideo-conicis, 4*-locularibus, loculis 1-spermis. 



Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. (Pt. vn.) p. 26. t. 129 (1871) ; (?) Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL p. 423, 

 (1864). 



Young shoots, peduncles, petioles and underside of leaves, especially on the veins, softly 

 pilose-hirsute, fulvous; branches terete, dark, glabrescent. Leaves oval-oblong; shortly and 

 usually obtusely acuminate at apex, rounded or subcordate at base, thinly subcoriaceous, 

 alternate, 2 4 in. long by | If in. wide, with petiole -^ in. long, subglabrescent above, 

 except the depressed midrib; lateral veins not strong. 



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