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LXIX. EBENACE^E 



[Diospyros 



Fig. 165. Diospyros paniculata, Dalz. J. 



J-f in. long, densely silky outside, segments longer than tube. $ in the axils of the 

 upper 1., 1 or 2 together, stamens 14, glabrous, filaments on a fleshy torus, which 

 surrounds the -hairy ovary rudiment, unequal in length, the 5-6 longer ones (often 

 variously connate) forming an inner circle. ? solitary, pedicels up to \ in. long, 

 ovary hairy. Fr. ovoid, |-1 in. long, densely clothed with stinging hairs, calyx scarcely 

 enlarged. 



6. D. stricta, Eoxb. Silhet. Tipperah. A tall tree, trunk straight to the top, 

 branchlets and petioles softly tomentose, leaves more or less hairy, membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, blade 3-4, pet. \ in. Fl. 4-merous, white, $ sessile, 

 in axillary hirsute bracteate cymes, calyx and corolla hirsute, stamens 14-16, glabrous, 

 single, filaments as long as anthers. Fr. glabrous, ovoid, 1J in.., on a stout stalk J in. 

 long, supported by the small hairy 4-lobed calyx, albumen uniform. 



(c) Corolla of $ fl. with lines of flairs along midrib of lobes, otherwise 

 glabrous. 



7. D. Chloroxylon, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 49.— Syn. D. capitulata, Wight Io. t. 

 1224 J 1 , 1688 (bis) $. Vern. Nensi, Ninai, Mar. ; Ullingi, Ullinda, Valinda, 

 Tel. 



A sflrub or small tree, axillary spines and spinescent brancfles frequent, branch- 

 lets densely rusty-tomentose. L. thinly coriaceous, upperside pubescent, under- 

 side rusty-tomentose, elliptic or obovate, blade 1-2, pet. -|— \ in. long. Fl. very 

 small, wflite, 4-merous, sessile or nearly so, calyx cleft nearly to the base, 

 strigose outside with stiff hairs, $ in small axillary clusters of 6-10 fl., 

 corolla ^— j \ in. long, glabrous outside, except 4 longitudinal lines of stiff flairs, 

 segments erect, stamens 16, in 2 rows, slightly connate at the base in pairs, 



