MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 201 



Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Jurujuba Bay, Mr Miers ! 3709 ; Serra de Araripe, Gardner ! 

 1512 ( fl. Sept.); between Franqueira and Canariera, Gardner! 2284 (albumen radiately 

 striate, fruit in March); New-Granada, Prov. Mariquita, Piedros, banks of Magdalena, 1300 ft. 

 alt., Triana! 2612; Mexico, Carmen and neighbourhood, Dr Warra! 226 (plant in young 

 fruit with acute leaves and calyx 3-fid having pointed lobes). Possibly 2 or 3 different 

 species are here described together. Cfr. Maba inconstans, Griseb. which is like this plant 

 in some states. 



67. DlOSPYROS PLECTOSEPALA, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus, apice acuminatis, basi angustatis, subglabris, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis brevissime cymosis, axillaribus, pentameris, hirsutis, brac- 

 teatis, campanulato-oblongis, calyce profimde lobato, lobis rotundis valde contortis, corollce lobis 

 ovalibus obtusis, staminibus 12 glabris incequalibus, ovarii rudimento hirsuto. 



Branches terete, sparsely hispid with mixed brown and black short hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 oval, acuminate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, thinly coriaceous, scattered especially 

 beneath with a few inconspicuous appressed short stiff hairs, \\ 4J in. long by \ If in. 

 wide, dark green above ; lateral veins few, delicate ; petioles \ \ in. long, hispid. 



(J. Flowers few or several together, in very abbreviated hispid axillary cymes, penta- 

 merous, J in. long, campanulate-oblong ; bracts small. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, scarcely half the 

 length of the flower, hirsute outside, glabrous inside, lobes round, much imbricated, cordate at 

 base. Corolla densely hirsute outside with pale appressed hairs, glabrous inside, 5-fid ; lobes 

 oval, obtuse. Stamens 12, glabrous, unequal, hypogynous or inserted at very base of corolla. 

 Ovary minute, rudimentary, hairy. 



Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 3225. 



68. DIOSPYROS STRICTA, Roxb. Cat. PL Fl. Ind. p. 93 (1813). 



D. trunco stricto, apice tantum ramoso; foliis alternis, ovato-oblongis, apice valde acumi- 

 natis, basi subrotundis, submembranaceis, ciliatis, subtus sparse pubescentibus, breviter petiola- 

 tis; cymis masculis brevissimis, 3 Q-floris, bracteatis, floribus subsessilibus, 4-meris, hirsutis, 

 calyce paroo, profunde lobato, corolld urceolato-oblongd, staminibus 14 16, glabris; fructibus 

 solitariis, breviter pedunculatis, obovoideis, basi conicis, glabris; seminibus oblongis, albumine 

 non ruminato. 



Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 40 (1814) ; Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, u. p. 539. n. 14 ; Drawings no. 2507 in 

 Hb. Kew ; Wall. List n. 4121 (182832) ; Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 232. n. 47 (1844). 



A tall slender conical tree with a trunk perfectly straight, as in firs, to the very top ; 

 branches spreading at 40, terete ; young shoots subtomentose, covered with dull tawny patent 

 short hairs, glabrescent. Leaves ovate-oblong, much acuminate at apex, obtuse at base, sub- 

 membranous, alternate, erect-patent, pubescent beneath, ciliate, glabrous above except on the 

 midrib, 2 3J in. long by about 1 in. wide ; petioles about } in. long, pubescent ; veins incon- 

 spicuous especially on upper face. 



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