254 MR HIERN, ON 



glabrous, undulated in the dry state, 1| 5 in. long by f 1| in. wide; petioles \ in. long, 

 veins inconspicuous. 



9. Cymes axillary, puberulous, few-flowered, \ in. long. Fruit globular, verrucose, 

 shortly pubescent between the rough points, 1J in. in diameter, tipped with remains of 

 ferruginous-silky style. Albumen of seeds not ruminated. Fruiting calyx small, flat, 5-fid, 

 puberulous on both sides, \ in. in diameter, lobes ovate-deltoid. 



Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro, Weddell ! 577. 



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



D. foliis altemis, ovato-oblongis, apice acutis acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel subcordatis, 



firiniter membranaceis, subtus pallidis appresse pubescentibus, breviter petiolatis ; floribus mas- 



cidis aggregatis, axillaribus, sessilibus, sericeis, 5 6-meris, calyce campanulato, corolld profunde 



lobatd, lobis patentibus, staminibus 26 33, sericeis ; fructibus immaturis subglobosis, sub-W- 



locularibus. 



A slender tree 20 30 feet high ; branches 5 together arranged in 3 subterminal whorls, 

 very long (12 feet), simple or rarely forked, leafy and flowering to the base ; terminal buds 

 narrowly conical, covered with dense short yellowish hair ; young shoots puberulous with short 

 brown curly-patent hairs, terete, glabrescent, dark, smooth. Leaves alternate, ovate-oblong, 

 firmly membranous, usually rounded or subcordate at base, acuminate and acute at apex, 

 6 12 in. long by 2 4J in. wide; dark green with few scattered weak pale hairs, glabrescent, 

 and with depressed midrib above ; pale and covered with appressed hairs and with raised and 

 darker veins beneath ; petioles \ in. long, patent, slightly bent upwards at point of attach- 

 ment of leaf. Flowers sub-polygamous, pentamerous or hexamerous. 



<J. Flowers numerous in crowded axillary sessile clusters, pale, silky, "white," scentless, 

 about J in. long, pentamerous or occasionally hexamerous ; bracts rounded, imbricated, hairy. 

 Calyx campanulate, 5 6-fid, with acute deltoid or ovate lobes, glabrous or nearly so inside. 

 Corolla deeply 5 6-lobed ; lobes oblong- obovate, glabrous inside, incurved near apex, erect- 

 patent, distant upwards when in full flower, imbricated sinistrorsely in bud; stamens nearly 

 equal, 26 33, clustered and more or less united at base, inserted at base of corolla or on 

 receptacle; anthers linear, with long straight silky hairs on back and front; filaments short, 

 glabrous. Ovary or in subhermaphrodite flowers ovoid pubescent 10(?)-celled terminated at 

 apex by 5-lobed style. Young fruit subglobose, about 10-celled. 



N. W. Brazil, near Panure by shady banks of Rio Uaupe's, Spruce! 2701, November; 

 Martius I ; French Guiana, Martin ! 



142. DIOSPYEOS CAPRE^FOLIA, Mart. MSS. in Herb. 



D. foliis alternis, ovali- vel ovato-oblongis, apice aciiminatis, basi angustatis, tenuiter cori- 

 aceis, subtus pallidis, subglabris, breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis subsessilibus, 4 5-meris, 

 calyce campanulato, 4 5-fido, corolld subrotatd, staminibus cirdter 45, pilosis, corollce basi 

 insertis; floribus femineis solitariis, sessilibus, 5-meris, ovario dense hirsuto, stylis 4 (?) 



A tree 40 feet high ; terminal buds small, rufous-hairy, lateral, often hard ; young shoots 



