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•25 in. or 0. Heads 5-*75 in. across, inbracteate, axillary or terminal 

 slender corymbs longer or shorter than the leaves ; peduncles slender, 

 about 1 in. long. Involucral bracts linear, acute, apicnlate or obtuse, 

 dark coloured and hairy towards the tips on the outside ; glabrous, 

 silvery shining within, gradually becoming ovate and smaller outwards ; 

 receptacle pubescent. Corolla '3 in. long, pink, glabrous or glandular 

 pubescent. Akenes glabrous or hairy, *2 in. long, slender, distinctly 

 and strongly 10-ribbed ; pappus longer than the invol. bracts, reddish ; 

 hairs barbellate, outer very short. 



This handsome plant is very common in the forests near the falls of 

 G-airsoppab. I have never seen it elsewhere. As it could not be 

 matched either at Kew or Calcutta I have named it as above. It comes 

 in my opinion near V. pectiniformis, DC. It flowers throughout the 

 cold season. 



Ebenace^:. 



Diospyros crumenata, Thw., Enum. 179 ; Fl. Br. 1, 3, 567 : 

 Bedd., Fl. Syl., 145. Vernacular name, Kan tumri, K. {Plate XIV.) 



A very large tree. Leaves ovate, bluntly acuminate, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, shining beneath, drying brown ; midrib and venation con- 

 spicuous ; blade 3-6 by 2-1*25 in., petiole '5 in. long. Male fl. *5 in: 

 long, in small, peduncled, deflexed, 3-5 flowered cymes, cyme branches 

 *2 in. long. Calyx tubular, tomentose, lobes 4, shallow, teeth acute. 

 Corolla tubular, silky, tomentose, lobes 4, spreading. Stamens 12, 

 glabrous ; anthers apiculate. Female fl. axillary, articulated on a very 

 thick, short peduncle ; peduncle "25 in. long, pubescent at the top. 

 Calyx large, '75 in, across, tube short, lobes deeply plicate, accrescent 

 in fruit. Ovary hairy, 4-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; stigmas 4 ; staminodes 

 6-8, glabrous, acuminate. Fruit globose, 2-2*5 in. in diameterj rather 

 obscurely 4-ridged at the apex ; calyx accrescent, forming a thick 

 woody quadrangular cup, about 1*25 in. wide ; peduncle thick, short, 

 woody ; seeds large, about 1 in. long, ovoid, flattened, wedge-shaped, 

 immersed in white stringy pulp ; testa shining brown ; albumen rumi- 

 nated. 



A very large tree with a cylindrical trunk 100-150 ft. high, and 

 4-5 ft. in diameter at the base. Bark thin, scaly, cinerous. Wood 



