256 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 



Sinuous branches petioles and underside of leaves especially on the midrib and rather 

 prominent veins villous with brown hairs. Leaves rather thickly membranous, oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, 4 7 in. long by 2 4 in. wide, cuspidate-acuminate, rounded or contracted at the base, 

 dark green, rather paler beneath, with 8 13 lateral veins on each side, alternate ; petioles 

 ^ in. long ; veins depressed above. 



2 . Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 together, subsessile in fruit ; calyx 5-partite, somewhat 

 hairy ; fruiting calyx divided beyond the middle ; lobes triangular, rather obtuse, tawny- 

 setulose especially in middle. Berry densely rufous-setose, 8-celled, depresso-globose, setae 

 shining. 



S. America, N. Peru, Maynas, in woods, Poppig ! 2266. 



145. DIOSPYROS PCEPPIGIANA, Alph. DC. Prodr. vni. p. 224. n. 9 (1844). 



D. foliis altemis, ovali-lanceolatis, apice obtuse acuminatis, basi cuneatis, tenuiter cori- 

 aceis, subtus appresse-pubescentibus, breviter petiolatis ; floribus masculis breviter cymosis, fulvo- 

 pubescentibus, calyce aperte campanulato, breviter 4 o-fido, corolld tubulosd, apice obtuse lobatd, 

 staminibus 12 20, subcequalibus, filamentis brevibus glabris, antheris hispidis; fructibus glo- 

 bosis, appresse papilloso-pubescentibus, calyce fructifero non aucto patente. 



Miq. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vil. (Eben.) p. 4. n. 4 (1856). 



A small bushy tree, rarely erect, 15 25 feet high ; alternate branches and underside of 

 leaves with scattered appressed hairs. Leaves oval- or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate or 

 narrowed at apex, cuneate or abruptly narrowed at base, alternate, thinly coriaceous with 

 very slightly reflexed margins, glabrescent above except the depression of midrib, 2 4 in. long 

 by | If in. wide ; petioles -J in. long ; lateral veins inconspicuous. 



3 . Inflorescence tawny-pubescent, cymose, bearing few or several flowers, in short cymes 

 which measure about in. long exclusive of the flowers; pedicels short, reflexed; flowers $ in. 

 long, tetramerous or pentamerous ; bracts ovate, acute, caducous ; calyx ^ in. high, openly and 

 shortly campanulate, shortly 4 5-fid with acute lobes, dark, with pale pubescence outside, 

 glabrous inside ; corolla ^ in. long, tubular, bright tawny-hairy outside, glabrous inside, 

 shortly 4 .5-lobed at apex, lobes obtuse; stamens 12 15 or 18 20, nearly equal; anthers 

 hispid, linear, hypogynous ; filaments short, glabrous, combined at base more or less in pairs ; 

 ovary small, rudimentary, with short inconspicuous hairs. Fruit globular, nearly 1 in. in 

 diameter, shining but with scattered appressed short brown hairs especially at apex arising 

 from papillose bases, 6 8-celled. Fruiting calyx in. in diameter, spreading but appressed to 

 base of fruit, 4 5-lobed, not accrescent. 



Brazil, Amazon, Poppig! 2639; Povoac.a6 dos Juris, Martius! n. 3053; Kio Negro, fre- 

 quent on margin of Gapd from Barcellos upwards, Nov., Spruce! 1938; St HilaireJ; Kio 

 Uaupes, Gap6, October, Spruce/ 2635. 



146. DIOSPYROS EMARGINATA, sp. nov. Plate IX. 



D. foliis alternis, obovatis, apice retusis vel emarginatis, basi cuneatis, coriaceis, costd 

 exceptd glabrescentibus, inconspicue reticulatis, breviter petiolatis; floribus masculis axillaribua, 



