196 MR HIEEN, ON EBENACE^. 



meris, dicecis, calyce campanulato, utrinque pubescente, $ 5 6-fido, 9 profunde lobato ; 

 corolld aperte campanulatd, glabrd, <? 5 Q-fidd, lobis reflexis, 9 profunde 5 6-fidd ; $ sta- 

 minibus 20 vel 24, exsertis, subcequalibus, geminatis, corollce media insertis, pubescentibus ; 

 9 staminodiis 0, ovario ovoideo, glabro, 4<-locularibus, loculis 1-ovulatis ; fructibus subglobosis, 

 glabris, 2-spermis ; seminibus sub-hemisphericis, albumine non ruminato ; calyce fructifero aucto, 

 patente. 



Plate X. a. a male flowering branch, natural size. b. a male flower, magnified 3 dia- 

 meters, c. a male corolla laid open, shewing the stamens, magnified 3 diameters, d. a 

 pair of stamens, magnified 6 diameters, e. a female flowering branch, natural size. f. a 

 female flower, magnified 3 diameters, g. the same after the removal of the corolla, mag- 

 nified 3 diameters, h. a vertical section of the last, shewing ovules inside the ovary, 

 magnified 4 diameters, i. a fruiting branch, natural size. k. a fruit, natural size. I. m. 

 a seed, natural size. n. transverse section of a seed, natural size. o. embryo, magnified 

 6 diameters. 



A tree 25 35 feet high, valuable as timber. Wood very black and hard in the centre. 

 Trunk 1 2 ft. in diameter. Branches terete, smooth, of dark brown colour, glabrescent ; 

 young parts shortly and closely fulvo-pubescent. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate at apex, slightly or scarcely narrowed at base, thinly coriaceous or sub- 

 membranous, darker above, shining, glabrescent or midrib and sometimes principal veins 

 puberulous on both sides, midrib depressed above; evergreen, 2 5 Jin. long by 1 2fin. 

 wide ; petioles ^ ^ in. long, puberulous ; principal lateral veins distant, clear and slender 

 beneath, inconspicuous above, arching; tertiary veins transverse, slender. Internodes much 

 shorter than the leaves. Inflorescence axillary or slightly supra-axillary, shortly and closely 

 fulvo-pubescent, in short clustered several-flowered cymes. Flowers 5 6-merous, dioecious ; 

 pedicels short. 



<J . Flowers in. long ; calyx ^ in. long, campanulate, 5 6-fid, shortly pubescent on both 

 sides, lobes ovate ; corolla glabrous, 5 6-fid ; tube campanulate ; lobes | in. long, elliptical, 

 wholly reflexed, rounded at apex, contorted sinistrorsely in aestivation. Stamens 20, 24, ap- 

 pearing at the mouth of the open corolla, equal or subequal, biseriate, distinct, one pair 

 inserted alternate and another pair opposite to each corolla-lobe; inner series inserted slightly 

 below the outer about the middle of the corolla, that is, about the top of its tube; 

 anthers linear, erect, hairy, sessile or subsessile ; pollen globular, smooth. Ovary rudimentary, 

 glabrous. 



2 . Flowers \ in. long. Calyx campanulate, deeply 5 6-lobed, shortly pubescent on both 

 sides ; lobes ovate-lanceolate ; accrescent in fruit. Corolla openly campanulate, glabrous or 

 nearly so, deeply 5 6-fid ; lobes oblong, erect or spreading, obtuse. Staminodes 0. Ovary 

 glabrous, obtusely conical, 4-celled, bilobed at apex ; cells 1-ovuled. Style ; stigmas 2, com- 

 pressed, with thin margins. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, about | in. in diameter, 2-seeded. Seeds 

 sub-hemispherical, ^ in. in diameter ; albumen white, not ruminated, cartilaginous ; embryo 

 axile, | in. long, nearly straight; radicle ^in. long, bent near upper end; cotyledons ovate, 

 equal, thin, not veined. Fruiting calyx spreading, 1 1| in. across, puberulous ; lobes ovate 

 or lanceolate, subobtuse. 



See Welwitsch, Synopse das Amostras de Madeiras &c. p. 10 (1862). 



