202 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



if. Flowers J in. long, 3 6 together, crowded and subsessile on short pubescent cymes 

 about the length of the petioles, tetramerous. Bracts numerous, hairy, at base of very short 

 pedicels. Calyx tawny-hirsute outside, small, ^ in. long, with 4 deep ovate apiculate lobes, 

 glabrous inside. Corolla salver-shaped, $, in. long, tawny-hirsute, much contracted towards 

 top of tube ; tube inflated below, -^ in. long ; lobes oval, patent or reflexed, shorter than the 

 tube. Stamens 14 16, glabrous, single, about half the length of the corolla-tube, most in- 

 serted in one row at base of corolla and nearly equal, some inserted on the disk ; filaments 

 about as long as the anthers. Receptacle convex. 



9 . Fruit solitary, on patent peduncles which are about \ in. long and thicker towards 

 the apex and continuous with small tawny-hairy shortly 4-lobed calyx. Fruit egg-shaped 

 but somewhat conical towards base, ! in. long by -^ in. thick, unequally 4?-celled, glabrous. 

 Seeds oblong, albumen not ruminated. 



East Bengal, Tipperah, Roxburgh (j fl. March); Griffith! 3624 (in fruit); Chittagong, 

 Drs J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson! ; Silhet, &c. Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. p. 40. 



69. DIOSPTROS ERIANTHA, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. IV. p. 302 (1852). 



D. foliis distichis, oblongo-lanceolatis, apice acuminatis, basi obtusis, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 supra nitidis, subtus secus venas pilosis, breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis 1 3-nis, axil- 

 laribus, subsessilibus, basi bracteatis, tetrameris, hirsutis, calyce profunde lobato, corolla hypocra- 

 teriformi, lobis lanceolatis, acuminatis, patentibus, staminibus 14 16, glabris; floribus femineis 

 solitariis, staminodiis 8, uniserialibus, glabris, ovario villoso, ^-loculari, loculis 1-ovulatis ; fruc- 

 tibus oblongis, subglabratis, monospermis, albumine non ruminato. 



Benth. Fl. Hongkongens. p. 210. n. 2 (1861). 



A small tree, with young shoots ; margins, mid-rib and lateral veins of underside of leaves 

 and inflorescence covered with stiff appressed rusty pubescence ; branches spreading at about 

 35, glabrescent, terete. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, much acuminate at apex, obtuse or nearly 

 rounded at base, distichous, thinly coriaceous, shining and with slight depressed inconspicuous 

 midrib and lateral veins above ; ruddier and with raised and rather conspicuous midrib and 

 lateral veins beneath; 2| 4J in. long by f 1| in. wide; petioles ^ in. long, pubescent 

 when young. Bracts much imbricated, numerous, especially in 2 , concealing the very short 

 peduncle and young flowers, pubescent when young, wide, rounded or obtusely narrowed. 



<J. Flowers subsolitary, 1 3 together, axillary, not nodding, subsessile, tetramerous, 

 ^ in. long. Calyx deeply 4-fid, \ in. long, with lanceolate hirsute lobes. Corolla tubular, 

 salver-shaped, hirsute outside, glabrous inside, 4-lobed, white ; tube ^ in. long ; lobes -fe in. 

 long, spreading, acuminate, lanceolate, imbricated sinistrorsely. Stamens 14 16, inserted in 

 pairs at base of corolla, glabrous ; anthers acuminate ; the interior filaments shorter, the 

 outer ones longer. Ovary rudimentary, small. 



9 . Flowers solitary, subsessile, tetramerous ; calyx -^ in. long, like 6 . Corolla equal- 

 ling the calyx ; lobes acute. Staminodes 8, glabrous, in one row. Ovary hairy, 4-celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled ; style bifid to the middle with contiguous emarginate lobes, glabrous except 

 at base. Fruit glabrate or nearly so, oblong, about \ in. long, shining, 1-seeded. Fruiting 



