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with deep oval spreading convex lobes, in. long, with longitudinal stripes of appressed hair 

 outside, glabrous inside, rather thick ; stamens about 20 ; anthers pilose, linear ; filaments 

 consolidated, short, pistil 0. 



9 . Flowers about 6 together in axillary cymes. Fruiting pedicels \ J in. long or very 

 short (sessile ex Burchell MSS.) ; fruit depresso-subrotund, 4-5-sided, yellow, shining, with 

 scattered appressed short hairs, and nearly smooth skin, probably about 1 in. in diameter ; 

 fruiting calyx f in. across with acute deltoid spreading lobes and short appressed hairs inside. 



Brazil, at Para, Burchell! 9923, 9952, $ fl. December; at Baiao, Burchell! 9275. 

 Fruit in June. 



136. DIOSPYROS POLYANDRA, Spruce in Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. V. p. 7 (1861). 



D. foliis distichis, ovato-oblongis, apice acuminatis, basi subcordatis, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 subtus pubescentibus, breviter petiolatis; jloribus masculis axillaribusj cymosis, 4 7-scepius 

 G-meris, calyce hemisphcerico extus fuko-pubescente, lobis acutis, corollw lobis profundis, 

 patentibus, staminibus 40 50; antheris linearibus, pilosis, filamentis brevissimis, basi 

 connatis. 



A. tree 18 30 ft. high, with a trunk 9 in. in diameter, and branches arranged in sub- 

 terminal whorls, long, subsimple, leafy throughout, tawny-hairy at the extremities. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate at apex, subcordate at base, 3J 6 in. long by 1^ 3 in. wide, with 

 petioles -Jj ^in. long, distichous, thinly coriaceous, with recurved edges, with scattered 

 appressed pubescence, glabrescent above ; veins depressed on upper surface of leaf. 



<J. Inflorescence in axillary not very crowded cymes which without the flowers measure 

 about in. long, densely hispid-pubescent, tawny ; pedicels -fo ^ in. long ; bracteoles de- 

 ciduous ; flowers 4 7- usually 6-merous, white, sweet-scented, about J in. long and cylin- 

 dric-conical in bud ; calyx hemispherical, about \ in. long, with short acute lobes, glabrous 

 inside, tawny-hairy outside ; corolla with oval-oblong deep lobes spreading in flower, glabrous 

 inside, with longitudinal stripes of hair outside ; stamens 40 50 ; anthers linear, pilose ; 

 filaments very short, connate at base; pistil 0. 



Brazil, south bank of Rio Negro at confluence with river Solimoes, Spruce! 1528; fre- 

 quent on the banks of the Casiquiare, Spruce ! 3166. <J flowers in May and sparingly in 

 November. According to Mr Spruce, the branches are arranged in whorls of five (very rarely 

 three or four). 



137. DIOSPYROS COCCOLOB-EFOLIA, Mart. FI. Bras. vn. (Eben.) p. 6. n. 7. tab. 1. fig 1 (1856). 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus, utrinque obtusis, discoloribus, tenuiter coriaceis, subglabris, petio- 

 latis; jloribus masculis breviter cymosis, axittaribus, calyce scepius ^-partita, lobis ovatis tiel 

 lanceolatis, patentibus, ciliatis, corolla 4 6-partitd, lobis oblongis patentibus, staminibus 18 24, 

 plerisque geminatis, hirsutis ; floribus femineis 1 4s-nis, 4-mem, staminodiis 4, ovario ovoideo' 

 conico, piloso, 4:-loculari, loculis l-ovulatis. 



A small or moderate-sized dioecious tree, glabrescent in most parts. Shoots and lower surface 

 of leaves pubescent especially on veins and margins, sometimes glabrous. Leaves oval, thinly 



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