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with imbricated often ciliated lobes. Corolla rather exceeding the calyx, glabrous, 4-fid. 

 Staminodes 4, 8, 12, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, globular, 8-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles 4, 

 glabrous, bifid at apex. Fruit globose, J 1 in. in diameter, glabrous and shining ; fruiting 

 calyx more or less reflexed, somewhat accrescent; seeds 2 6 8, albumen not ruminated 

 (in D. rugosula, R. Br., there are two contiguous slight intrusions of the testa along 

 the outer side of the seed). The wood is dark-coloured or variegated, hard and durable. 

 Dr Dalzell states that bees are very fond of the flowers. 



There are two principal forms : 



a. montana proper. D. montana, Roxb., D. Goindu, Dalz., D. heteropJiylla, Wall. 

 Leaves oval, 3 4 in. long. <S flowers panicled, with calyx glabrous except ciliate margin. 

 9 flowers with 4 staminodes. 



ft. cordifolia. D. cordifolia, Roxb., D. punctata, Decaisne, D. rugosula, R. Br., D. 

 Waldemarii, Kl. Leaves oblong, often cordate at base, 1 2J in. long. <J flowers 3 

 together with hairy calyx. 9 flowers with 8 (D. Waldemarii) or 12 staminodes. 



India, Madras, Shuterf; Othacalmundapum, Kew list 1724!; Patna, Dr Ritchie! 1240; 

 Moradabad, Dr T. Thomson! 985; Rottler! 361; Sirhind, Dr T. Thomson!; Bengal, 

 Edgeworth! 6006; Ambala, Edgeworth! ; Pinjor Valley, Edgeworth!; Ceylon, Thwaites! C. P. 

 1909; sea coast, Tinnevelly district, Kew list 1717!; Pondiche'ry, Perrottet! Sikkim, Dr 

 Hooker!; Courtallum, Kew list 1713!, 1726!; Bombay, Dalzell/; Concan, Dr Stocks! ; 

 Canara, Dr Ritchie! 970; Belgaum, Dr Ritchie 972; Himalaya, Hoffmeister, teste Kl. 

 1. c. ; Ava, Wallichf ; India, Magadi, Hejuru, S. W. Mysore. Timor, Decaisne I N.Australia, 

 Victoria River, F. Mueller!, Carpentaria, R. Brown! ; Australia, Port Darwin, Schultz! n. 

 607, 608. The natives are prejudiced against this tree. Buch. Ham. Journey, vol. I. 

 p. 183, vol. II. 125. 



Cfr. Diospyros sp. Bedd. in Clegh. For. 259 (1861), Muchi tanki; a very hard light- 

 coloured wood, Godavari forests, Madras. 



98. DlOSPTKOS ZOLLINGERI, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, obovato-oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi plerisque rotundatis, coriaceis, 



glabrescentibus, petiolatis; floribus masculis axillaribus cymosis tetrameris, fulvo-pubescentibus, 



calyce campanulato, lobis deltoideis, corolld breviter 4-fidd, campanulatd, staminibus 16, 

 geminatis, glabriusculis, ovarii rudimento glabro. 



Young parts and inflorescence puberulous or pubescent. Leaves alternate, obovate- 

 oblong, acuminate at apex, usually rounded at base, glabrescent, 4 8 in. long, by 1 2 

 in. wide; midrib and lateral veins depressed above and in clear relief beneath; petioles 

 about J in. long. 



<J. Inflorescence in short cymes axillary or in the axils of fallen leaves. Abortive 

 buds in some cases are arranged in a panicle. Flowers tetramerous, tawny-pubescent; 

 calyx campanulate, -^in. high by |in. wide, 4-fid, nearly glabrous inside, lobes deltoid; 

 corolla (in bud) in. long, ovoid, shortly 4-lobed, appressedly pubescent ; stamens 16, 

 united in 8 pairs at the top of the filaments, nearly equal, inserted at the base of the 

 corolla, not quite glabrous, but with short hairs on the back of the anthers and on the 



