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loculari, tomentello, stylis 4 ; fructibus globosis uncialibus, seminibus oblongis, albumine non 

 ruminato. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vni. p. 239. n. 95 (1844). 



Diospyros Lotus, Lour. Fl. Cochin, p. 226. n. 1 (1790), non Linn, nee Blanco. 



Diospyros macrocalyx, Klotzsch in Peters Mossamb. p. 182 1,1862), non Alph. DC. 



A shrub 2 8ft. high or small tree with young parts and inflorescence glandular- 

 puberulous and with a few scattered pilose hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, submembranous, weakly pubescent on the veins and ciliate on the margins when 

 young, glabrescent, obtuse rounded or subcordate at base, more or less acuminate at apex, 

 1| to 4 in. long by | 2 T ^ in. wide, besides petiole -J fa in. long ; flowers subhermaphrodite 

 or polygamous, drooping ; calyx foliaceous. 



<$ . Cymes 3- or few-flowered, glandular-hairy ; peduncles | ^ in. long, twice the length 

 of the pedicels, bearing ovate cordate sessile bracts at apex; flowers about in. long; calyx green, 

 about | in. long with 4 deltoid lobes about ^in. deep, glandular-pubescent (closed in specimen), 

 valvate in aestivation ; corolla deeply 4-lobed, somewhat pubescent outside, urceolate, white ; 

 lobes contorted in aestivation; stamens 8, in one row, inserted at base of corolla, subsessile, 

 pilose, lanceolate ; ovary ovoid-conical or subglobose, puberulous, abortive or 8 ? -celled, sur- 

 mounted by a 4-lobed style. 



2 Cymes about 3- or many-flowered, about | 1 in. long, glandular-hairy ; peduncle about 

 \ in. long ; flowers like the <J ; staminodes 8, puberulous ; ovary globose, shortly tomentose, 

 8-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 4, included in the corolla ; fruit globose, about 1 in. in dia- 

 meter, puberulous or glabrate, 4-celled, 4-seeded. Fruiting calyx accrescent, deeply 4-lobed, 

 more or less covering the fruit, about 1 in. long ; lobes ovate, subglabrate, dilated and widely 

 subcordate at base. Fruiting peduncle strong, \ | in. long ; pedicels about ^ in. long ; 

 seeds in. long, oblong, embryo \ in. long ; cotyledons narrow, rather longer than the radicle 5 

 albumen cartilaginous, not ruminated. 



Local name in Sena (Mozambique) nhamodJma, according to Dr Klotzsch. The natives 

 use the roots to clean and dye their teeth red; fruits in January and February; grows 

 in the neighbourhood of Sena, Dr Peters ! ; Senna, Kirk ! ; Kovuma Kiver, Shiramba, Kirk ! ; 

 between Lupata and Tette, Kirk! ; Quiloa, Kirk! ; Congo, Burton! ; Angola, district Golungo 

 Alto, Welwitsch! No. 2535, frequent in thickets throughout the whole district, especially 

 in mountainous woods, fruit said to be edible ; var. vernalis, leaves f 2 in. long by | | in. 

 wide, flowers solitary on shorter peduncles, fruiting calyx smaller, less foliaceous, a shrub 

 2 6 ft. high, Angola, district Golungo Alto, Welwitsch 2535 b. The characters approach 

 those of the genus Royena. A specimen in the herbarium of the British Museum without 

 flowers from Sierra Leone gathered by Afzelius! may possibly belong to this species. 



60. DIOSPYROS DENDO, Welw. MSS. 



D. foliis alternis, ovali-oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi leviter angustatis, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 glabrescentibus, nitido-virentibus, persistentibus ; floribus brevissime cymosis, axillaribus, 5 6- 



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