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A .small, erect, twiggy, leafy and evergreen shrub, resembling Buxus sempervirens. 

 Branches covered with shaggy rufous silky hairs when young, then puberulous and finally 

 glabrate, spreading at about 30. Leaves oval, apiculate and often acute at apex, more 

 or less narrowed at base, alternate, subsessile, coriaceous, appressedly pubescent beneath 

 when young, shining and glabrous above ; | 1^ in. long by J f in. wide ; midrib depressed 

 above ; without conspicuous veins. 



(J. Flowers ^in. long, tetramerous, drooping, subsessile, in very short 1 3-flowered 

 axillary rufous-hairy cymes ; bracts ovate, ciliated, imbricated, caducous. Calyx 4-partite, with 

 4 lanceolate-subulate erect-patent lobes ^ in. deep pubescent on both sides. Corolla scarcely 

 longer than the calyx, 4-fid, with lanceolate spreading lobes, with 4 hairy lines outside. 

 Stamens 16 (12 ex Alph. DC.), glabrous, in pairs, the inner ones shorter, inserted at the 

 base of the corolla-tube ; anthers rather shorter than the filaments, dehiscing laterally from 

 apex. Ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



? . Flowers solitary, subsessile. Bracts caducous. Calyx ^ | in. long, hairy, 4-partite, 

 with linear-lanceolate lobes. Corolla shorter than the calyx, 4-fid, with 4 hairy lines outside 

 and lanceolate acute recurved lobes. Staminodes 4 8, glabrous, in one row, inserted at the base 

 of the corolla-tube. Ovary ovoid, prolonged at apex into a pubescent 4-lobed style, glabrous 

 below; (3-celled according to Lindley) 8-celled; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit globose or ellipsoidal, 

 shining, usually glabrous except at apex, " 3-celled," about J in. high ; cells 1-seeded ; albumen 

 not ruminated, cartilaginous; embryo axile, straight, cotyledons large foliaceous. Fruiting 

 calyx not accrescent. 



China; Hong Kong, Major Champion/; G. Wilford!; Millett!; Hance! 604; 0. Wright! 

 312 ; S. China, Seemann ! 2454 ; Malacca, Griffith ! 3648 ; Singapore, Penang, &c. Walker !, 



Wallich ! 



Var. pellucido-punctata. Leaves pellucid-punctate, thinly coriaceous. Fruit with scat- 

 tered hairs. South Andaman, 8. Kurz! 



105. DIOSPYROS CAYENNENSIS, Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 224. n. 8 (1844). 

 D, foliis alternis, oblongis, obtusis, basi angustatis, supra nitidis glaberrimis, subtus 

 glabrescentibus, coriaceis, petiolatis; floribus 1 3-m's brevissime cymosis subsessilibus ferru- 

 gineo-wlutinis, calyce turbinato profunde 4<-lobo, corolld calyce suUongiore, staminibus 10 12, 

 glabris, ovario in flore femineo ovoideo glabro R-loculari, 



Danzleria axillaris, Bert, ex Alph. DC. I. c. 



Young shoots and flowers ferruginous-velutinous. Leaves alternate, oblong, obtuse or 

 obtusely acuminate, abruptly narrowed at base, coriaceous, shining and quite glabrous above, 

 glabrescent beneath, green on both sides in the dry state, 3 Sin. long by 1 If in. wide, 

 reticulated ; more or less revolute at the margin, petioles \ in. long or shorter. Flowers 

 drooping, puberulous, tetramerous; peduncles much shorter than the calyx. 



S. Flowers solitary or 3 together. Calyx Jin. long; lobes sub-erect, widely ovate, 

 undulated, silky on both sides, thickened within over a triangular space at base. Corolla 

 ovoid, sub-tetragonal, contorted in bud, fleshy, somewhat hairy outside. Stamens 10 12, 

 glabrous, distinct or in pairs ; anthers subulate. 



