214 MR HIERN, ON EBENACEJ3. 



J 1 . Flowers fascicled on very short dense cymes, 3 5 together, densely ferruginous- 

 pubescent, | | in. long, tetramerous. Calyx campanulate, -fa \ in. long, hairy on both sides, 

 4-fid or more shortly 4-lobed, with deltoid lobes. Corolla tubular with inflated tube, glabrous 

 inside; lobes spreading, shorter than the tube. Stamens 14, 16, united in pairs by thin 

 filaments and inserted at base of corolla, or hypogynous ; inner ones shorter, f in. long, 

 glabrous except base of anthers or apex of filaments; common filaments ^ in. long; con- 

 nective apiculate. Ovary 0; receptacle hairy. 



9 . Flowers solitary, subsessile, axillary, near together, 4 5-merous, \ in. long, densely 

 tawny-pubescent ; bracts short, pubescent, imbricated. Calyx in. high, 4 5-lobed ; lobes 

 with sides sometimes reflexed. Corolla-lobes cordate (ex Roxb.), imbricated. Staminodes 

 8 10, short, inserted at base of corolla. Style very short, about 8-lobed ; ovary 8-celled, 

 hairy. Fruit ovoid or globose, usually pointed at the apex, tawny-torn entose or appressedly 

 silky, 1 in. or more long. Fruiting calyx pubescent on both sides, 1 in. across, with crass 

 somewhat concave tube and 4 or 5 lobes spreading or recurved and much thinner towards 

 the margins. Albumen not ruminated. 



East Bengal, Griffith! 3631, 3634; Sillet, Wallich! 4144, 4139 (?); Khasia, Churra, 

 foot of hills; Drs J. D. Hooker and T. Tlwmsonl 20 June 1850, in young fruit. In 

 Khasia? or Cachar? it is called Soi-lo and is a poison for fish, Drs J. D. Hooker and 

 T. Thomson/ 



86. DIOSPYHOS GARDNERI, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PI. p. 181. n. 12 (1860). 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi leviter ang-ustatis, tenuiter coriaceis, gla- 

 bris, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis 1 4-m's, subsessilibus, tetrameris, pubescentibus, calyce 

 campanulato, corolld hypocrateriformi, staminibus 16, pubescentibus ; floribus femineis solitariis, 

 ovario 8-loculari, fructibus depresso-globosis, subglabratis. 



Beddome, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. (Pt. VII.) p. 27. t. 132 (1871). 

 Patonia WaUcerii, Wight, 111. I. p. 19 (1840). 



A moderate-sized tree; young shoots puberulous, quickly glabrescent. Leaves alternate, 

 thinly coriaceous or submembranous, glabrous, shining above with inconspicuous veins and 

 channelled midrib, oblong, acuminate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, 3 7 in. long by 

 1 2 in. wide ; petioles | | in. long ; lateral veins depressed on the upper surface in the 

 thinner-leaved specimens. 



<J . Flowers pubescent, 1 4 together, subsessile, on very short axillary pubescent cymes. 

 Bracts small. Calyx in., campanulate, 4-fid, covered with short hairs on both sides ; lobes 

 deltoid. Corolla about ^ in. long, conical in bud, salver-shaped in full flower, covered 

 outside with appressed ferruginous silky shining hairs, glabrous inside, tube somewhat inflated 

 below, with 4 spreading lobes about half the length of the tube. Stamens 16 (or about 12 

 according to Dr Thwaites), in pairs ; filaments short, pilose ; anthers linear, glabrous or some- 

 what hairy. Ovary or represented by a bunch of hairs. 



