258 ME HIERN, ON EBENACEJ3. 



mentis brevissimis ; flonbus femineis 1 5-nis, subsessilibus vel cymosis, 4>-meris, staminodiis 

 1 12, pubescentibus, ovario farinaceo-glanduloso, scepius 8-loculari, stylis 4; fructibus globosis 

 ml ellipsoideis. 



Excl. syn. Lam., Bot. Reg. t. 499 (1820), Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 235. n. 65 (1844), 

 Griff. Notulae iv. p. 289 (1854), Thw. En. Ceyl. PL p. 178. n. 1 (1860), Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madras 

 t. 69 (1870), non Boj. 



Embryopteris peregrina, Gaertn. Fruct. I. p. 145. t. 29. f. 2 (1788). 



Garcinia malabarica, Desrouss. in Encycl. Me'th. in. p. 701 (1789). 



Embryopteris glutinifera, Roxb. Coromand. I. p. 49. t. 70 (1795) ; E. globularia, ex Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. n. p. 1048. n. 16 (1856). 



Diospyros glutinosa, Roxb. Hort. Bengal, p. 40 (1814) ; Konig ex Roxb. Fl. Ind., edit. 

 1832, ii. p. 533. 



Diospyros glutinifera, "Wall. List n. 4123 B (182832). 



Diospyros malabarica, Kosteletsky, Mecl. Pharmac. Flora (ill.) p. 1099 (1834). 



Embryopteris gelatinifera, G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. and Bot. IV. p. 41 (1837). 



Diospyros citrifolia, Wall. ex. Alph. DC. I. c. 



Embryopteris glutenifera, Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. Vol. in. pt. 2, p. 4, tt. 843, 844 (1843 47). 



Diospyros melanoxylon, Hassk. Cat. PI. Hort. Bot. Bogor. II. p. 159 (1844), Ettingsh. Blatt- 

 Skel. Dikot. t. 41. f. 9 (1861), non Roxb. 



A middle-sized or large evergreen tree, glabrous and shining except the buds inflorescence 

 and fruit ; there is however occasionally a slight puberulence upon the petioles, &c. Branches 

 straight, spreading. Bark scaly. Leaves oblong or narrowly oval, alternate, usually rounded 

 at base, sometimes subcordate or slightly narrowed, acute lanceolate acuminate or obtuse 

 at apex, highly reticulated with veins in relief on both sides with the exception of the midrib 

 which is depressed on the upper side, coriaceous, of a pale green colour, persistent, 3 12 in. 

 long by | 3| in. wide ; petioles 5 | in. long, usually channelled above. Flowers yellowish- 

 white, dioecious or polygamous. 



<J. Cymes about 3 7-flowered, tawny- or fuliginous-pubescent or puberulous, \ f in. long 

 (excluding the flowers) ; flowers ovoid, in. long in bud, f in. long when open, tetramerous or 

 occasionally pentamerous; calyx \ in. long by f in. wide, 4-fid, pubescent, lobes pubescent 

 inside ; corolla in. long, with pubescent patches of hair outside, glabrous inside, shortly 

 cylindrical, lobes about -^ in. long, spreading, imbricated sinistrorsely in bud ; stamens 

 indefinite, 24 64 or more, nearly equal, inserted on the receptacle or at base of corolla, 

 anthers linear, more or less hairy on back and front, filaments very short, hairy; ovary or 

 rudimentary; receptacle hairy. 



9 . Flowers 1 5 together, subsessile or cymose, tetramerous, larger than in the male plant, 

 cymes ranging up to in. long, glabrescent or pubescent ; bracts caducous ; calyx deeply lobed, 

 pubescent or glabrescent, lobes dilatate-subcordate at base, erect-patent, ovate, | | in. long ; 

 corolla about in. long, with short nearly erect lobes; staminodes 1 12, hairy (sometimes per- 

 haps perfect stamens), inserted at base of corolla or partly hypogynous; ovary glabrous (normally), 

 reddish-glandular, or with a basal ring of hairs (rarely hairy?), 8 ( 10) -celled ; styles 4, hairy 

 at base, dilated and lobed at apex, spreading ; fruit usually solitary, subsessile or pedunculate, 

 globular or ovoid, often large (1J 2 in. long), glandular or glabrate, 6 8 10-celled and 



