MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^. 269 



Shoots puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, obovate, subsessile, crowded, rounded 

 at apex, cuneate at base, shortly hispid, f 1 in. long by about \ in. wide. 



9 . Fruiting peduncle axillary, solitary, ferruginous-hispid, | in. long ; fruiting calyx 

 5-(or 6- ?)partite, pubescent ; lobes oblong, spreading, f in. long by in. wide ; fruit 

 solitary, somewhat depressedly globose, dark, covered with scattered pale short hispid hairs, 

 about ^ in. long. 



Mexico, Pavon in Hb. Delessert ! 



169. DIOSPYROS APEIBACARPOS, Raddi, Quarante nuove del Brasile, in Atti Soc. 

 Modena, Vol. xvni. p. 12. n. 10 (1820). 



D. foliis alternis, lanceolatis, acutis, supra glabris, subhis villoso-sericeis, brevissime 

 petiolatis; baccis depressis, papillis adspersis et setis crebris, subdecaspermis ; calyce 5-lobo. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vin. p. 239. n. 96 (1844), Mart. Fl. Bras. vil. p. 8 (1856) excl. syn. 



A tree of about 30 feet high, with not very thick trunk, very slightly branched ; the 

 young branches rather setose at the extremity. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, elongated at 

 the apex, entire, smooth above, scattered with yellowish hairs beneath which are closer 

 along the midrib and round the margin. Calyx 5-lobed. Fruit depressed, scattered with 

 papillae and short setulas almost like the hairs with which the petioles of the leaves are 

 covered, size and shape of the Apeiba of Aublet, 1 2 in. thick, 8 10-seeded. 



Brazil, Estrella Mountains, Raddi, fruits in April ; Minas, San Francisco River, in 

 woods, Martins ; near Borba by River Madeira, Riedel. 



Martius in Fl. Bras. vil. (Eben.) p. 8 states that this plant is the same as D. sericea, 

 Alph. DC. ; but the fruit appears to be different. 



170. DIOSPYROS (?) XYLOPIOIDES, Mart, in Fl. Bras. vn. p. 8. n. 4 (1856). 



D. ramulis subdistichis fulvo- et apices versus albido-sericeis ; foliis subcoriaceis lanceolatis 

 acuminatis basi acutis (20 36'" long., 3 5"' lat.) supra glabris, subtus sericeis pilis ap- 

 pressis flexuosis albis, in nervo margine petioloque fukulis ; floribus axillaribus geminis 

 ternisve bracteisque fulvo-sericeis. 



Arborea. Rami cortice tenui deductili, qualis in multis Diospyris obtinet. Ramuli 

 prsesertim in extremitatibus dense albo- aut fulvulo-sericei. Folia, tarn figura quam dispo- 

 sitione et compage ea Xylopiae frutescentis et nonnullarum affinium assimilantia, supra 

 saturate viridia nervo impresso, subtus pilis mollibus appressis in margine et nervo fre- 

 quentioribus, venis vix conspicuis. 



Flower-bud sessile, narrowly campanulate, in. long; calyx trifid or tripartite, glabrous 

 inside, lobes ovate-lanceolate; corolla not exceeding the calyx, silky outside, puberulous 

 inside, tripartite or tripe talous, valvate ; stamens 3, erect, with hairy lines, filaments short ; 

 ovary rudimentary. 



