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with scattered rufous hairs, glabrescent ; branches spreading at 40 70", terete, with a rather 

 pale cuticle. Leaves oval or ovate-oblong, somewhat narrowed at base, acuminate at apex, thinly 

 coriaceous, dark green shining and glabrous except depressed midrib and with depressed veins 

 above, pale, subglabrous except the veins beneath, alternate, 2 3 in. long by ^5 1 T 3 5 in. wide ; 

 petioles ^5 J in. long. 



<J. Flowers few together, in subsessile clusters, tetramerous or pentamerous; calyx 

 ^ in. long, with scattered appressed hairs, campanulate, felted within, 4 5-fid, lobes deltoid 

 acute ^ in. long ; corolla -fa in. long, glabrous except longitudinal stripes of brown hairs outside, 

 subrotate, lobes oval, spreading, in. long ; stamens 45 (in one pentamerous flower), inserted at 

 base of corolla, anthers linear, with a few pilose erect hairs; filaments glabrous, combined at 

 base ; ovary rudimentary. 



9 . Flowers solitary, sessile, pentamerous, bracteate at base. Calyx 5-fid, with deltoid 

 lobes, hairy on both sides ; corolla spreading, 1| in. across or more, glabrous outside ; ovary 

 densely hairy, subrufous. Styles 4 (?), glabrous, erect, exceeding the ovary. 



Brazil, Cape Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Sello 1011 /; Maranhao, Don!; Guinea, Surinam, 

 Martins! 1678. 



143. DIOSPYROS MANNII, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, ovali-oblongis, apice acuminatis, ba#i angustatis, firmiter membranaceis, 

 subtus pallidis, subglabris nervis exceptis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis dense cymosis, 

 axillaribus et secus ramos vetustos lateralibus, 5 6-meris, calyce profunde lobato, corolla sub- 

 rotatd, staminibus 15 17, subcequalibus, hispido-pilosis. 



A tree, with young shoots rufous-hispid or afterwards fuscous-hispid ; older branches dark, 

 glabrate, spreading at about 50. Leaves oval-oblong, narrowed at base, acuminate at apex, 

 alternate, firmly membranous, glabrous and with depressed veins above, glabrous (except a few 

 isolated erect hairs) and paler on the lamina and with rufous hispid hairs on the raised midrib 

 and lateral veins beneath, flat, 5 7 in. long by 1J 2^ in. wide; petioles fuscous, hispid, 

 | $>in. long. 



<J . Inflorescence often on older branches, in several- or many-flowered dense short rufous- 

 hispid cymes in the axils of present or fallen leaves ; pedicels short ; flowers f in. long, pen- 

 tamerous or hexamerous. Calyx ferruginous-hairy on both sides, ^ in. long, deeply 5 6-fid, 

 with lanceolate somewhat spreading lobes. Corolla subrotate in full flower, ovoid-conical in 

 bud, \ in. high, 5 6-partite, glabrous except patches of short pale hairs along exterior of 

 lanceolate-oblong spreading lobes. Stamens 15 17, nearly equal, about \ in. long, appearing 

 at open mouth of corolla, hispid-pilose, with pale ferruginous hairs, on short filaments, not in 

 pairs. Ovary wanting, represented by a few hispid hairs. 



West Equinoctial Africa, Gaboon River, $ fl. July, Mann ! 924. 

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144. DIOSPYROS ARTANTH^EFOLIA, Mart. FL Bras. vn. (Eben.) p. 7 (1856). 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis, apice cuspidato-acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel angustatis, 

 crassiuscule membranaceis, subtus fusco-hirtis, pallentibus, petiolatis ; floribus femineis axilla- 

 ribus, solitariis vel binis, calyce o-partito, hirtulo, baccis depresso-globosis, 8-locuktribus, dense 

 rufo-setosis ; calycis fructiferi lobis obtusis deltoideis. 



