240 ON SOME ASIATIC CORYLACE. - 
Royena hirsuta, ees I do not, however, yet find them in the other 
species of this ge 
In the Oxford CBlivessity herbarium there is a new variety of a 
species st a from Brazil, collected by Riedel, which I call 
y- Riedelii; it ies leaves lanceolate-oblong 
Seaaaiis 4}- ‘6 se * 14 in. ; petioles 3 1-2 in. long, stamens in the o y 
male flower examined 7: 
e following is a new species from Brazil collected by Burchell; 
October 5, 1827; the specimen had heen sorted into a different 
a order in the Kew herbarium and has only very recently been 
seen by m 
Drospyros Buronentu, Hiern.—D. fulvo-hispida, foliis altern is 
late obovatis coriaceis obtusis basi ‘euneatis breviter petiolatis, floribus 
—— conferti brevissi ymosis subsessilibus basi bracteatis 
acters ges atentibu minibus circiter 26 basi corolle insertis fila- 
mentis pilosis sathoris linearibus glabris, ovarii rudimento globoso 
hirsutissimo. 
Arbuscula 15-pedalis. Folia 6-7$-poll longa, 3- 44-poll. lata, 
petiolo 3-}-pollicari. Bractee imbricate. Flores ma naeall 3-polli- 
cares, virides. Calyx 4-pollicaris. Corolle lobi obtusi, secus dorsum 
= Stamina pleraque gemina. Flores feminei ac fructus adhue 
ignoti 
Habitat in Brasilice tropicze provincia Goyaz, inter “ Campo- 
Aberto” et ‘8. Basio,” prope oppidum “ Bomfim,” in pascuis ascuis collinis} 
affini 
w more new fossils have been published as belonging t 
Ebenacee ; it, however, still remains that only two or three species 
namely, Diospyros brachysepala, A.Br., Royena greca, Ung. | (not 
Euclea relicta, Ung., as printed by site stake - pag ve 272 of the 
Monograph), and perhaps D. oocarpa (part), n Thw., appeat 
to me to be satisfactorily established as sais Me "the family. Some 
remarks on the value of the determinations of the so-cal 
Ebenaceous fossils were Ia ar by me to the Botanical Con- 
gress held at a iapnctien in May las 
ON SOME ASIATIC CORYLACE2. 
Br H. F. Hance, Pa. D., ere. 
uercus onic aeseeld es , Sp. nov. —Ramulis glabris ¥ © 
sic furfuraceo bits brevipetiolatis e basi cali 
oblongis integerrimi mies Sed 13 ot bris supra subopacis § subtus pe 
patelliformibus diametro pollicaribus tomento brevi ‘cinere? valde % 
obtectis zonis concentricis sige _ conico-tumidam versus y 
indistinctis marginem vers approximatis et paulo conspicul, : 
oribus, glande brannea lates voor ac acutiuscula pollicem a alta pre’ 
