192 MB HIERN, ON EBENACEJS. 



Branches slender, terete, puberulous, leafy ; leaves oval or somewhat obovate, alternate, 

 narrowly acuminate or subcaudate at apex, cuneate at base, shining, firmly submembranous, 

 glabrous except the midrib which is puberulous on both sides and depressed above, 1| 4| in. 

 long by | H in. wide; veins inconspicuous above, lateral veins few; petioles ^ j^in. 

 long, puberulous. 



,$ . Flowers solitary, very slender, f in. long, on very slender remotely setulose peduncles 

 J | in. long, which arise from small bracts on the young branches ; calyx ^ in. long, cam- 

 panulate, 4-fid, puberulous outside, glabrous inside, ciliate, lobes rounded; corolla narrowly 

 tubular (in bud), fin. long by -j^in. thick, deeply 4-fid, glabrous, somewhat constricted below 

 lobes ; lobes obtuse, much contorted ; stamens 8, biseriate, glabrous, unequal, anthers oblong, 

 filaments more or less connate at base into hypogynous ring ; ovary rudimentary, glabrous. 



Borneo, 0, Beccari! n. 1560. 



54. DIOSPTROS PERVILLEI, sp. nov. 



D. foliis anguste ovalibus, alternis, apice acuminatis, basi cuneatis, glabris, coriaceis, 

 unicoloribus, petiolatis, nervis gracillimis ; fructibus 1 3-nis, rigide cymosis, subglobosis, 

 subglabris, nitidis, plurilocularibus, calyce aucto, reflexo, coriaceo, 4s-partito, nervoso. 



A tree 40 feet high, very nearly glabrous in all its parts ; branches at about 50. 

 Leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical, acuminate at apex, narrowed at base, glabrous, coria- 

 ceous, of same (metallic) colour on both sides, shining, about 6 in. by 2 2f in. wide ; petioles 

 about in. long, strong ; veins numerous, slender. 



9 . Cymes about 3-flowered, rigid in fruit, common peduncle \ f in. long, fruiting 

 pedicels \ \ in. long ; fruiting calyx 4-partite, coriaceous, veined, lobes reflexed, oblong, rounded 

 at apex, | 1 in. long by \ \ in. wide. Fruit subglobose, 1 in. long by f in. thick, nearly 

 glabrate but with a few scattered short appressed weak hairs, shining, with remains of 4 

 styles at apex, 8-celled and -seeded (?) ; seeds fin. long, albumen not ruminated (?). 



Madagascar, Nossi Be, Perville ! 525. 



55. DlOSPYROS DICTYONEURA, sp. nOV. 



D. foliis ovali-oblongis, alternis, glabris, apice, acuminatis, basi parum angustatis vel sub- 

 rotundatis, coriaceis, utrinque reticulatis, nitentibus, petiolatis; floribus masculis pentameris, 

 cymosis; cymis uncialibus, multiftoris, axillaribus; calyce partito, basi plicato ; corolld tubulosd, 

 carnosd staminibus 20, plerisque binis, antheris linearibus glabris, filamentis brevibus hispidis. 



Shoots terete, softly puberulous. Leaves alternate, oval-oblong, acuminate at apex, slightly 

 narrowed or slightly subrotundate at base, glabrous, coriaceous, shining, with raised well- 

 marked net-veins on both sides, 6 7 in. long by 2^ 2 in. wide ; midrib depressed above ; 

 margins recurved ; petioles stout, wrinkled, | J in. long. 



<5. Cymes axillary, lin. long exclusive of the flowers, many-flowered, pubescent ; flowers 

 pubescent, pentamerous; calyx about fin. broad and high, partite, plicate at base, lobes ovate- 

 deltoid, sides sometimes plicate towards base, subobtuse, shortly pubescent on both sides; 



