218 MK HIEKN, ON EBEN AGILE. 



92. DlOSPYEOS BUXIFOLIA. 



D. foliis alternis, ovato-ellipticis, utrinque angustatis, coriaceis, supra lucidis, subtus se- 

 riceo-pubescentibus, subsessilibus, confertis, nervis inconspicuis ; floribus axillaribus, subsessilibus, 

 masculis 3 4-m's, confertis, femineis solitariis, calyce 4-fido, corolla 4<-fidd, breviter et late 

 campamtlatd, intus glabrd, staminibus 10 16, geminatis, glabris, in flore femineo ; antheris 

 apice rimosis; ovario femineo 4-loculari superne pubescente inferne glabro, loculis 1-ovulatis; 

 fructibus oblongis, 1 %-spermis, albumine non ruminato. 



Leucoxylum bumfolium, Bl. Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 1169 (1826); Choisy, Me*m. Ternstr. 

 p. 43. t. 2 (1855) ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. p. 1049 (1856). 



Diospyros microphylla, Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. (vil) p. 27. t. 133 (1871). 



A large tree with glabrescent terete branches and straight trunk. Young shoots and 

 inflorescence covered with pale ferruginous pubescence. Leaves distichous, close together, 

 easily falling (in dried state), firm, occasionally minutely pellucid-punctate, the younger ones 

 silky beneath, without conspicuous veins, ovate-oval, narrowed at both ends, subsessile, 

 | 2 Jin. long by $$ |in. wide; midrib depressed and often puberulous above. Flowers 

 dioscious. 



<J . Flowers 3 or 4 together, subsessile, very short axillary cymes ; flower ^ in. long, 

 tetramerous. Calyx yg-in. high, covered with short hairs, having 4 rounded imbricated 

 lobes ^jin. deep. Corolla i^in. high, with 4 rounded apiculate reflexed lobes ^in. deep, 

 hairy along middle lines outside. Stamens 10 16 (16 ! in all the flowers examined), glabrous, 

 united by their filaments in pairs, the inner ones the shorter ; anthers ovate or oblong, 

 dehiscing at apex ; filaments slender, equalling or exceeding the anthers, inserted at base of 

 corolla. Ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



9 . Flowers solitary, subsessile. Calyx 4-fid, with rounded lobes much imbricated in 

 bud, pubescent outside; corolla ^in. long, 4-fid, hairy outside; staminodes 0. Ovary 4- 

 celled, ellipsoidal and glabrous below, conical and pubescent above, cells 1-ovuled; style 

 bipartite, short. Fruit cylindrical or oblong, conical at apex, dry, 1-celled, 1- rarely 2- 

 seeded, | |in. long by | Jin. wide, pointed, glabrous and shining or subglabrous or 

 fulvous pubescent at apex resting at base on small spreading pubescent or ciliate calyx ; 

 albumen cartilaginous not ruminated ; cotyledons about equalling the radicle. 



Malacca, Maingay ! 966 "ovary rudimentary 4-lobed;" Java, Blume!, Zollinger ! 3247, 

 3488; Jndia, S. Canara, &c., Major Beddome!; Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 1973. 



Major Beddome I.e. states that the S. Canara plant has the habit of Leucoxylum 

 buxifolium, Miq., but he does not regard his plant as the same species with it. According 

 to Zollinger in the Obs. Bot. Nov. p. 18 (1857) the flowers in both sexes are usually 

 pentamerous, the stamens usually 10, free, and the ovary apparently 2-celled. 



93. DIOSPYEOS VESCOI, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, obovatis, apice rotundatis, basi angustatis, coriaceis, subtus puberulis, 

 inconspicue reticulatis, confertis, petiolatis, margine revolutis; floribus masculis axillaribus, 

 breviter cymosis, calyce laxe hemisphcerico, 4>-fido, extus tomentoso, corolld campanulatd utrinque 



