198 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE.E. 



^ in. long, green, nearly glabrescent, campanulate, 4 5- usually 4-fid ; lobes deltoid or rounded. 

 Corolla tubular, pale with appressed short hair outside, with 4 spreading obtuse lobes half 

 the length of the tube. Stamens 8, distinct, 2 alternating with each corolla-lobe, the 

 inner ones being shorter and inserted at very base of corolla-tube, or hypogynous, the outer 

 ones longer with filament and anther about equal and inserted rather above base of corolla 

 tube, or hypogynous ; all glabrous. Ovary rudimentary, with short hairs. 



9 flowers solitary, on erect peduncles about yfrin. long; calyx and corolla as in $ ; 

 staminodes 4, alternating with corolla-lobes and inserted at base of its tube ; ovary conical, 

 hairy, 4-celled, 4-ovuled, continuous with hairy style which is 4-lobed and glabrous at apex. 

 Fruit globose, about in. thick, pale, glabrous, 4-celled, 4-seeded. Fruiting calyx 4 5-fid, 

 not or scarcely accrescent, concave or somewhat spreading, glabrous. Fruiting peduncle -^ ^ in. 

 long, patent ; seeds in. long ; testa rather rough ; albumen not ruminated, but somewhat 

 striated in a radiated manner. 



Jamaica, Mr March/ No. 1190; Purdie! (& and 9 fl. and fr., October); Swartz, fl. 

 July; St Domingo, Jacquin, <J fl. May; Cuba, teste Grisebach (the specimen PL Cub. Wright, 

 n. 348, has a somewhat different foliage and fruit-calyx). 



63. DIOSPYROS CARTHEI, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, elliptico-oblongis, utrinque obtusis, glabris, coriaceis, petiolatis ; floribus 

 masculis sub-5-nis, subsessilibus, confertis, aonllaribus, tubulosis, ferrugineo-pubescentibus, 4 6- 

 fidis, calyce campanulato, corolld gracili; lobis obtusis, staminibus 8, incequalibus, ovarii 

 rudimento piloso. 



Glabrous and dark except inflorescence and buds; branches terete. Leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, alternate, coriaceous, not pellucid-punctate, of same colour on both sides, 4 5 in. 

 long by If If in- wide; petioles |in. long, spreading. 



f. Flowers about 5 together, subsessile, crowded, axillary, tubular, slender, \ in. 

 long, ferruginous-pubescent, the colour greenish beneath the hairs ; calyx in. long, cam- 

 panulate, 4 6- (5 6!) -fid; lobes lanceolate. Corolla 4-fid, slender, | |in. long, ferru- 

 ginous-hairy outside, constricted in midrib ; lobes imbricated, obtuse. Stamens 8, unequal 

 by shorter or longer filaments, glabrous, -fo ^in. long, anthers dehiscing longitudinally 

 along their sides ; pollen ellipsoidal. Ovary rudimentary, represented by hairs. 



Manila, Philippine Islands, Carthef 



64. DIOSPTROS POLYALTHIOIDES, Korthals MSS. in Hb. Ludg. Batav. Eben. nn. 5 9, 12 14. 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis, apice acute acuminatis, basi obtusis, tenuiter coriaceis, suprd 

 glabris, subtus subglabris ; floribus masculis, aggregatis, breviter cymosis, axillaribus, oblongis, 

 sericeis, calyce campanulato, 4 o-fido, corolld tubulosd, breviter 4t-fidd, lobis obtusis patentibus, 

 staminibus 8, glabris, receptaculo insertis, incequalibus ; floribus femineis axillaribus, breviter 

 cymosis; fructibus subsolitariis, breviter pedunculatis, globosis, pubescentibus, S-locularibus ; 

 calyce fructifero aucto, profunde 4a-lobo, ampliato, lobis undulatis, latis, erectis. 



