MB HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 191 



and margins widely reflexed. Corolla pentagonal, fuliginous-hairy outside, glabrous inside, 5-fid, 

 constricted in the middle ; lobes oval, spreading in flower or reflexed. Stamens 20, glabrous, in 

 pairs, the inner ones rather shorter, inserted on the disk or on the corolla ; filaments short ; 

 ovary 0. 



9 . Fruit solitary, axillary, on strong peduncles | f in. long, erect-patent ; bracts 

 caducous, large, ovate, about middle of peduncle; calyx glabrescent ; fruit ovoid, f IJin. 

 long, rounded at apex, tipped with remains of style, with mixed fuliginous and ferruginous 

 hairs and glands, 3 4-celled ; fruiting calyx 5-lobed, accrescent, 5-partite, J f in. high, more 

 or less plicate, umbilicate below, lobes much widened auricled and imbricated at base, forming 

 5 dependent processes. 



Tallewarru, Canara Ghauts, Dr Ritchie ! 1884, a large tree in fruit, May ; Syhadree 

 mountains, near Chorla Ghat, Bombay, Dalzell! 2 3000 ft. alt.; Anamallays, Major Beddomef 

 285 (young fruit 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled or -seeded, style ^ in. long, glabrous above, lobed 

 at apex). 



52. DIOSPYEOS GRACILIPES, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus vel ovatis, apice scepi-its acuminatis, obtusis, basi angustatis, 

 glabris, coriaceis, reticulatis, breviter petiolatis; floribus femineis lateralibus, secus ramos 

 vetustiores vel ramulos dispositis, tetrameris, pedunculis gracilibus, aggregates, \-floris, calyce 

 4>-Jido, pubescente, ovario breviter pubescente, 8-loculari ; fructibus oblongis obtusis, calyce fructi- 

 fero aucto patente coriaceo. 



From a shrub 10 feet high to a large tree, glabrous except the extremities and inflo- 

 rescence ; branches at 25 35. Leaves alternate, oval ovate or nearly oblong, obtuse, 

 usually acuminate at the apex, more or less narrowed at base, glabrous, coriaceous, of 

 the same (metallic) colour on both sides, reticulated, shining, 2 5 in. long ^ Sin. wide; 

 petioles -fa | in. long. 



? . Peduncles slender, on young branches or clustered on the old wood, 1 If in. long, 

 puberulous or glabrescent, 1-flowered, with small deciduous bracts below the middle ; calyx 

 in. long, coriaceous, covered on both sides with close pale tawny pubescence, deeply 

 4-fid, with ovate-deltoid lobes dilated towards the base undulating at the margin and shortly 

 acuminate ; ovary shortly hairy, ovoid-tetragonal, 8-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 4, short ; 

 fruiting calyx spreading, with very short pubescence on both sides, whitened within, l 1| in. 

 across, 4-fid; fruit oblong, rounded at apex, ^in. long, ^in. thick, nearly glabrous, whitened 

 in parts, 8-celled. 



Madagascar, Bojer! ; Forest Lomoume, Nossi Be, Perville'f 27-5; East side, Chapelier! 82; 

 native name Ozou-matana. 



53. DIOSPYEOS GRACILIFLORA, sp. nov. 



D. foliis ovalibus, alternis, apice anguste acuminatis, subcaudatis, basi cimeatis, firmiter 

 submembranaceis, costd utrinque puberuld, ceterum glabris, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis 

 solitariis, gracillimis, gradllime pedunculatis, tetrameris ; staminibus S, glabris, ovarii mdimento 

 glabro. 



