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A large tree with sub-patent branches. Leaves widely lanceolate, quite entire, alter- 

 nate. Flowers hermaphrodite according to Loureiro, axillary, white ; corolla 4-lobed, tube 

 subglobose, large, lobes short ; stamens 18, inserted at the base of the corolla. Fruit pallid, 

 compressed, lentiform, 1-celled [?], 8-seeded, pulpy; pulp moderate, somewhat sweet, astrin- 

 gent, edible, not good-tasted ; seeds compresso-ovate, bony, large. 



Spontaneous and cultivated in Cochinchina, Loureiro. Local name, Cay Thi tram. 

 Wood like that of D. decandra, Lour., but without the very black veins in the heart; 

 white and smooth and with dense fibres. Used in gardens to support black pepper plants. 



157. DIOSPYBOS (?) PILOSA, Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 219 (1844). 



D. caule arboreo, foliis alternis, ovato-lanceolatis, subtus tomentosis, breviter petiolatis ; 

 fioribus masculis racemosis, rubro-fuscis, calyce 5-lobo, lobis ovatis, corolla 5-lobd, tubo brevi, 

 laciniis ovato-oblongis, crassis, patentibus, calyce sublongioribus, filamentis 15 brevibus, antheris 

 oblongis. 



Euclea pilosa, Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. p. 629 (1790). 



A large tree with ascending branches; dioecious. Wood fit for house-building. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, tomentose beneath ; petioles short. Flowers reddish- 

 brown, " in terminal racemes." 



<J. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate, pilose on both sides; corolla 5-lobed, tube short, lobes 

 ovate-oblong, crass, pilose, patent, rather longer than the calyx ; filaments 15, short, anthers 

 oblong, erect. 



Cochinchina, Loureiro. Vernacular name Cdy Nhaoc. 



158. DIOSPYROS HASSELTII, Zoll. Obs. Bot. Nov. p. 15. n. 3 in Natuurk. Tydschr. Neerl. 



Ind. Vol. XIV. (1857). 



D. foliis ovalibus, utrinque attenuatis, nitidis, glabris ; floribus axillaribus, racemosis, 

 racemis suberectis, calycis marginibus in axillis loborum deflexis, laciniis acutis, pedicellis 

 subciavatis pilosis, corolla (fern. 1) tubo 4<-gono, pilis nigris prcesertim ad angulos tecto, staminibus 

 8 [12], iisdem quce lobis corollce alternant simplicibus longioribus, aliis brevioribus bicruris, 

 stylis 4, bifidis ; baccd glabrd, S-loculari. 



Java. Described by Zollinger from a drawing of Kuhl and van Hasselt No. 2 b in the 

 Buitenzorg botanical garden. 



159. DIOSPYROS KUHLII, Zoll. Obs. Bot. Nov. p. 15. n. 1 in Natuurk. Tydschr. Neerl. Ind. 



Vol. xiv. (1857). 



D. foliis oblongis, utrinque acuminatis, integris ; floribus lateralibus axillaribus, pedicellis 

 calycem cequantibus, staminibus 8 [12] alternatim bicruris (antheris interioribus brevioribus) 

 aliis simplicibus, stylis 2 bifidis, baccd pilosd. 



Java. Described by Zollinger from a drawing of Kuhl and van Hasselt No. 3 in the 

 Buitenzorg botanical garden. 



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