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5 Flowers in very short many-flowered dense nodular cymes with very short pedicels, 

 in the axils of fallen leaves, | |in. long, slender. Calyx ^in. long, scattered with few 

 inconspicuous short ferruginous hairs, 4-fid ; glabrous inside ; lobes narrowly deltoid, acute, 

 spreading. Corolla tubular, 4-fid, glabrous except 4 lines of short hairs outside ; tube J in. 

 thick in middle where it is slightly inflated ; lobes oval-oblong, spreading. Stamens 16, 

 glabrous, unequal, inserted on the tube of the corolla a little above its base, -fa |in. 

 long ; anthers ovate, apiculate, ^ fa in. long ; the longer filaments exceeding the anthers, 

 in length. Ovary rudimentary, glabrous. 



$ . Flowers axillary, glabrous, subsessile, of a golden colour, solitary ; calyx 4 5-lobed, 

 with shallow rounded wide plicate lobes, glabrous. Corolla 4' 5-fid, constricted at the apex, 

 scarcely twice the length of the calyx. Ovary 10-celled, glabrous. Staminodes 10 11. 

 Stigma deeply 3-fid (?). Fruit globose, | fin. in diameter, of orange colour, tipped by 

 style, subsessile, with flat or reflexed calyx. Gum sometimes exudes from the young branches. 



Java, Dr Horsfield ! Ebenacea? nos. 3, 6 ; Bantam, Teijsmann and Binnendijk. 



77. DIOSPYROS NIGRICANS, Wall. List n. 6351 (182832). 



D. foliis alternis ovali-oblongis, apice valde acuminatis, basi obtuse angustatis, firmiter 

 membranaceis, glabris, nitidis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis 3 6-nis, axillaribus, bre- 

 vissime cymosis, subsessilibus, tetrameris, corolld, gracili, profunde lobatd, staminibus 32, in- 

 ceqwalibus, nonnullis minutis, glabris; fructibus solitariis, breviter pedunculatis, glabris, 4-focw- 

 laribus, sub-globosis, loculis monospermis, albumine non ruminato, calyce fructifero 4i-partito 

 patente vel reflexo. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 239. n. 87 (1844), non Dalz. 



A tree 50 feet high, with many lax cinereous, glabrescent branches ; young shoots and 

 petioles minutely puberulous. Leaves oval-oblong, much acuminate at apex, somewhat nar- 

 rowed at base, alternate, turning black when dry, firmly membranous, glabrous except on 

 midrib which is puberulous and depressed on the upper surface ; lateral veins and net- 

 veins delicate, not conspicuous above ; 3 5 in. long by 1 If in. wide ; petioles ^ | in. 

 long. 



6. Flowers in few (3 6) -flowered short axillary puberulous cymes, subsessile, \ J in. 

 long ; bracts small, imbricated. Calyx with scattered short ferruginous hairs outside shortly 

 4-lobed. Corolla with few scattered short hairs outside deeply (frds) lobed, slender; lobe.s 

 reflexed at apex. Stamens 32 in one case, very unequal, many minute, glabrous. 



$ . Fruit glabrous, ovoid or globose, pointed at apex, about in. long, 4-celled, 4-seeded, 

 solitary. Fruiting calyx 4-partite, with scattered ferruginous hairs outside, nearly glabrous 

 inside; with oval, flat, spreading or reflexed lobes, in. long. Seeds oblong, $ in. long; 

 albumen not ruminated, embryo nearly as long as the albumen. Fruiting peduncles shortly 

 hispid, | in. long, patent, unilateral, bearing 2 small bracts. 



Khasia, Churra, 2000 ft. alt. ; Drs J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson ! 842, June, in fruit ; 

 East Bengal, Griffith! 3628; (Silhet), Wallich! 6351. 



