130 EBENACEE. [ Diospyros, 
minately puberulous, the lobes oblong, blunt; corolla ureeolate, 
glabrous, the lobes rotundate (not ciliate); stamens in males 
about 20, inserted at the base of the corolla-tube, in the females 
none ; anthers oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; filaments short ; ovary 
shortly tawny-villous, globular, 8-celled, in the males rudimentary ; 
berries globular, about the size of a very large cherry, smooth, 
with a rather thick rind, yellow, soon turning brown, supported 
by the hardened calyx. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Pegu, in 
the leaf-shedding, especially the mixed, forests, up to 3,000 ft.—Fl. Apr.-May; 
Fr. Dec.-Jan.—1.—SS.= o SiS. 
Remarxs.—Sapwood yellowish white, of a very coarse granular appearance, 
rather hard, the heartwood rather heavy, brittle, close-grained, brown or beauti- 
fully white and black mottled. O/=—41 pd.—Used for house-posts. 
cent, 4-cleft, the lobes ovate-oblong, acute, nearly as long as 
the short, wide corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, 4-lobed, the lobes 
about as long as the tube, almost orbicular and notched, yellow; 
stamens 16-24 or more, inserted in several rows to the base of 
the tube; anthers sagittate, the cells minutely bearded at the 
base ; filaments short; ovary-rudiment conical, gland-like, villous, 
eae 
or wanting; females unknown, but the calyx in fruit 4-lobed, — ; 
the lobes half-deflexed, thick-coriaceous, rounded, concave under- 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban, at 2,000 to 4,000 fhe ae 
n hills.—Fl. March.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
elevation ; Ava, Kakhye 
Remarxs.—The berries produce the so-called black-dye of shans. 
6. D. cordifolia, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 143.—Chope-pen— 
A tree (30—50+6—1544—6), leaflessin H.S., while young often 
armed with simple and. compound spines, all younger parts softly: 
puberulous; bark dark brown, rough; leaves variable in size and : 
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