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conferto-cymosis, fulvo-hirsutis, calyce 4 5-fido, corolld tubulosd, apice 4 5-lobd, stamini- 

 bus 25 32, subcequalibus, filamentis brevibus, antheris hispidis; fructibus globosis, subglabris, 

 calyce fructifero vix aucto. 



A tall straight tree, 90 feet high, with a trunk 2 feet thick ; shoots with a few inconspi- 

 cuous appressed hairs. Leaves obovate, alternate, retuse or emarginate at apex, cuneate at 

 base, coriaceous, quite glabrescent except the midrib beneath and its depression above, with 

 highly reticulated but inconspicuous veins; 1 3 in, long by ^ If in. wide ; petioles about 

 in. long. 



$. Inflorescence axillary, tawny-hairy; cymes \ | in. long, bearing several flowers on 

 short pedicels; flowers f in. long, tetramerous or pentamerous, drooping, tawny; calyx $ in. 

 high, shortly and openly campanulate, 4 5-fid with sub-acute lobes, dark, with short scattered 

 appressed hairs outside, glabrous inside; corolla tubular, with tawny-silky hairs outside, 

 glabrous inside, 4 5-lobed at apex; stamens 25 32, nearly equal; anthers hispid, linear, 

 filaments glabrous towards base, more or less combined at base in pairs or otherwise; ovary 

 rudimentary, hairy. 



9 . Fruit globular, about 1 in. in diameter, subglabrous but with a few scattered appressed 

 short hairs. Fruiting calyx about in. in diameter, flat and appressed to base of fruit. 



Brazil, Rio Negro, Gap<5 below Barcellos, November. Always within (and not on) the skirts 

 of inundated forests, nearly related to D. Poppigiana, Alph. DC. but less common, Spruce/ 1913. 



Plate IX. A branch in male flower, natural size. a. a piece of a branch with male 

 flower abnormally thickened by an insect, not magnified, b. interior of male flower cut open, 

 magnified 3 diameters, c. a stamen, magnified 10 diameters, d. a fruit, natural size. 



147. DIOSPYROS RIGIDA, sp. nov. 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis, basi rotundis, rigide coriaceis, supra glabris, subtus pallide 

 subvelutinis, costd robustd, nereis inconspicuis, petiolatis ; fructibus cymosis, depresso-globosis 

 glanduloso-pulverulentis, ceterum glabris; calyce fructifero cyathiformi, fructum cequante, coriaceo, 

 puberulo, profunde 4i-lobo, lobis late ovatis erectis. 



Shoots shortly fuscous-hispid, terete ; leaves alternate, oblong or oval-oblong, rounded at 

 base, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, pale beneath and covered with thin velutinous tomen- 

 tum, 5 14 in. long by 1 3f wide, midrib stout, slightly depressed on the upper side, net-veins 

 not conspicuous ; petioles stout, wrinkled, puberulous, \ f in. long. 



$ . Fruit about 3 together on the young branches, depresso-globose, 1 in. long, covered with 

 reddish glandular pulverulence (as in D. Embryopteris), otherwise glabrous; peduncles f 1J in. 

 long, nigro-hispidulous, rigid ; fruiting calyx cup-shaped, as high as the fruit, 1 J in. in diameter, 

 coriaceous, puberulous, deeply 4-lobed; lobes widely ovate, erect. 



Borneo, 0. Beccari! n. 2285. 



148. DIOSPYROS EMBRYOPTERIS, Pers. Synops. n. p. 624. n. 6 (1807). 



D. foliis alternis, oblongis vel anguste ovalibus, apice scepius acuminatis, basi obtusis, 

 coriaceis vel submembranaceis, glabris, petiolatis, reticulatis ; floribus masculis axittaribus, 

 racemose cymosis, 3 7-nis, 4- rarius 5-meris, pubescentibus, flavescentibus, calyce patente, 4 5-fido, 

 corolld campanulatd, lobis obtusis, staminibus 24 oo, pubescentibus, antheris linearibus, JUa- 



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