Diospyros] 



LXIX. EBENACE.F 



431 



anthers ovate-lanceolate, as long as filaments, ? solitary, corolla and ovary 

 glabrous. Fr. £ in. diam., edible, albumen uniform. 



Western Peninsula, extending north to the Xasik and Chanda districts and to Orissa. 

 Fl. B. S. S. D. microphylla, Bedd. Ic. t. 133. 

 Western Chats, from North Kanara southwards, 

 in evergreen forests. Malay Peninsula and Archip. 

 A large tree, attaining 100 ft., stem straight, but- 

 tressed at base, branchlets hirsute with long yel- 

 lowish hairs, 1. membranous, almost sessile, 1—2 in. 

 long, with long soft hairs along midrib and mar- 

 gin, hairy all over when young. Fl. small, nearly 

 sessile, o* in short 3- or 4-fid. axillary cymes, 

 corolla hairy along midrib and edge of segments, 

 otherwise glabrous, stamens glabrous, 16, in pairs, 

 filaments longer than the ovate anthers. ? soli- 

 tary, upper portion of ovary pubescent. Fr. ovoid, 

 1-s led, .', [ iii. long, a I bumen uniform. 



(d) Corolla of g fl. glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent, stamens in pairs, 1. glabrous or 

 pubescent. 



9. D. montana, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 48. : 

 Wight Ic. t. 1225. — Syn. D. cordifolia, 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 50; Wight 111. t. 148. 

 Vera. Bistendu, Band.; Tembhv/rni, Mar.; 

 Pudu Maddi, Mulla Twmiki, Tel.; Vak- 

 kanai, Tam. ; Tawbut, Ch6k, Burm. 



A large shrub or small tree, branches some- 

 times spinescent. Branchlets and young 1. 

 softly fomentose. L. bitter iKanjilali, thinly Fie 

 chartaceous, ovate-oblong, base rounded or cor- 

 date, blade 2-4, pet. slender, l-\ in. long, sec. n. 



6-r8 pair slender. Fl. white, as a rule l-merous, S, in velvety, shortly peduncu- 

 late or nearly sessile, usually 2-8-fld. cymes, with small bracts and bracteoles, 

 pedicels shorter than calyx, buds conical, calyx deeply 4-fid, segments obtuse, 

 velvet}' on both sides. Corolla \ in. long', campanulate, outside glabrous or 

 pubescent, lobes short, spreading. Anthers Iti, slightly hairy, in 8 pairs. 

 ? solitary, drooping on short pedicels, ealvx-segments ovate J in. long, corolla 

 nearly glabrous outside, ovary glabrous. Fr. bitter, not edible, I -1 in. diam., 

 yellow when ripe, supported by the enlarged fnliaecous calyx-lobes, albumen 

 uniform. 



Suhhimalayan tract from the Ravi east wan Is. Rajputana and the Southern Punjab. 



Not. in the arid region of Sind. Vi. March May. Malay Archip. Tropical Australia. 



Varies exc lingly in shape and ho iriness. A common form with cordate-based, usually 



more t ntose 1. is by some botanists regarded ass distinct species (Z). cordifolia). 



A not her sp. allied to m mil nun, probably new. was found by Colletl al Meiktila, Upper 

 Burma, I. rigidly chartaceous, sec. a. 8 12 pair, reticulate veins conspicuous on both 

 surfaces, fl.i .' oruj I dull orange, in compact cymes, enrol In elongate-campanulate J-J in. 



lone;. A second a I lied species n it b inane' |',| seen ted ft. i> a large shrub or small tree 



i Mon. Burm.) sent by Smales from Upper Burma, the ' cymes often producing a pro- 

 fusion of small hairy I. in the plaee of ll. 



Hi. D. sylvatica, Roxb. Cor. I'l.i. IT: Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 121. Vera. 

 Thelht Qada, Tel. : Kaka suroli, Kan. 



A middle-sized, at times a large tree, branchlets nearly glabrous. I,, 

 chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous or slightly puberulous, elliptic, 



acuminate, blade 2 I. narrowed into petiole j in. long m coppice -hoots much 

 larger), sec, a. slender but distinct. ,{ buds nearly globose, cymes peduncu- 

 late, many-lid., corolla white, nearly glabrous, in ecolate. j Bolitary, calyx 



similar to bu1 larger than in { . Vv. globosi j in. diam., supported, by the 

 enlarged spreading Eoliaceous often striate calyx-lobes, albumen ruminate. 



lliii. Diospyros t.'hloroxy- 

 lon, Roxb. h. 



