38 MB HIERN, ON EBENACE.E. 



hairy, 4- or 6-celled (2-celled ex Wight 1. c.) : cells 1-ovuled ; stigma 2 3-lobed. Fruit 

 solitary, subsessile, glabrate, globose, in. in diameter, usually 1 -seeded. Fruiting calyx 

 reflexed, tomentose, thickened but not dilated or but slightly so. Seeds with albumen not 

 ruminated. 



Ceylon, 20004000 ft. alt., Thwaites! 1815, 1816, 2533, Trincomalee, Moon!; Madras, 

 Coimbatore, Wight! n. 1720; Anamalay hills, Beddome! 



117. DIOSPYEOS TEXANA, Scheele in Linnaea xxn. p. 145 (1849). 



D. foliis alternis, obovatis, apice rotundis, basi cuneatis, submembranaceis, subtus pube- 

 scentibus, subsessilibus ; floribus masculis 1 S-nis, breviter pedunculatis, pubescentibus, calyce 

 5 6-partito, corolld urceolatd, 5 &-fid&, lobis obovatis, staminibus 16 20, biserialibus, 

 glabris ; floribus femineis solitariis, staminodiis 0, ovario sub-8-loculari, ovoideo, dense sericeo, 

 fructibus globosis. 



A tall much-branched shrub, 12 15 feet high, with fastigiate branches spreading at 

 60 70, cinereous, verrucose, leafy, softly pubescent and pale at the apex ; warts subrotund, 

 of dark reddish colour. Leaves alternate, oblong-obovate, wedge-shaped at base, rounded or 

 emarginate at apex, submembranous, softly pubescent, pale, glabrescent on upper side ; veins 

 inconspicuous above ; nearly flat or with revolute margins, ^ 2 in. long by ^ 1 in. wide ; 

 petioles -j-^g -fa in. long, hairy. Flowers with scent of vanilla. 



3 . Flowers 1 3 together, in axils of present or fallen leaves, drooping, \ \ in. long, 

 softly pubescent, pale, crowded on young shoots ; peduncles \ i-f in. long, pubescent ; 

 bracts caducous. Calyx with 5 or rarely 6 deep ovate or lanceolate lobes, shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla, \ in. long, pubescent on both sides. Corolla urceolate, with 5 or per- 

 haps rarely 6 recurved lobes about half the length of the corolla-tube, glabrous inside. 

 Stamens 16 20, distinct, in 2 rows, glabrous; anthers longer than the filaments, dehiscing 

 from the apex. (In one case a stamen is abnormal, an anther having two ' filaments.) Ovary 

 rudimentary, with grey hairs. 



9 . Flowers solitary, pentamerous, J in. high by in. wide. Calyx large but not accre- 

 scent ; peduncles -J J in. long, recurved, bearing caducous small bracts. Corolla with spread- 

 ing lobes. Staminodes 0. Style 4-fid ; stigmas dilated. Ovary 8 (?)-celled, densely pilose. 

 Fruit globose, ^in. in diameter, dark, covered with scattered hairs, fleshy, sweet-tasted, 

 ultimately shining. Albumen not ruminated. Fruiting calyx spreading or reflexed, 5-partite ; 

 lobes f in. long, oblong, pubescent on both sides. 



North America, Texas, Galveston Bay, Drummond !, Fasc. in. n. 329. ( $ fl.) ; Drummond !, 

 Fasc. n. n. 201. (Fr.); Lindheimer !, Flora Texana exsiccata, Fasc. in. n. 451 (<J), 452 (?fl.), 

 453 (Fruit); Mexico, between Laredo and Bejem, Feb. 1828, Berlandier ! ((Jfl.); collected 

 in expedition from Western Texas to El Paso, New Mexico, May Oct. 1849, by Charles 

 Wright! n. 423; Texas, Trtcul, Oct. 1849, n. 1249, in woods by the sides of streams; Herb. 

 Berlandierianum Texano-Mexicanum, n. 3030! (D. mexicana, Scheele MSS.), Ann. 1828; "Hill 

 sides, Fort Inge to Escondido Creek, and near Eagle Pass, Western Texas, flowers in March, 

 fruit ripe in August about 1 in. in diameter," Torrey. 



