1832 EBENACES. [ Diospyros. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of the 
Andamans.—Fl. May-June; Fr. Apr.—s.—SS.=SiS., ete. 
Remarxs.—Wood greyish, the heart wood small, ebony-like, close-grained, 
heavy, black, or the grey wood interlaid with black wood-layers and then called 
marble-wood. . 
8. D. ramiflora, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (40—50+15—20+ 
4—5), all parts glabrous, the leaf-buds sparingly silk-hairy ; bark 
smooth, dark olive-brown ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong and 
oblong-lanceolate, on a strong 3-4 lin. long petiole, 3-6 in. long, 
abruptly bluntish acuminate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves 
and the lax veination thin; flowers middling-sized, usually 5- rarely 
6- or 4-merous, on thick 3-3 in. long shortly brown-tomentose pedicels, 
in small cymes reduced to clusters arising from the older branches ; 
bracts small, persistent, cinnamon-velvety ; calyx very coriaceous, 
8 lin. deep, almost urceolate, brown-velvety, 5- (4- or 6-) -lobed, the 
lobes short, tria r, acute; corolla urceolate, 4-4 in. long, 
white, velvety outside, the lobes short, almost orbicular ; stamens m 
es infertile, about twice as many as calyx-lobes, inserted at the 
base of the corolla-tube; ovary rusty-hairy, with twice as many — 
cells as there are calyx-lobes; stigmas 5 (or 4 or 6), short, blunt ; 
berries globose, the size of an apple, somewhat roughish, brown, 
supported by the very thick enlarged calyx, with as many or fewer 
than ovary-cells ; albumen homogeneous. 
Has.—Rather rare in i 5 ; i arte 
Beet the tropical forests of Arracan; also Chittagong-—~ — 
9. D. oleifolia, Wall.—Chope-pen.—An evergreen tree (40—60 
+12—25+43—4), all parts quite glabrous; bark about a line 
thick, ash-grey or dark brown, smooth, with scattered rusty-coloured 
rather large lenticels; leaves elliptical to oblong and oblong- 
lanceolate, bluntish acuminate, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole, 3-5 in. 
long, almost coriaceous, smooth and polished on both sides, the 
nerves very faint, impressed or almost invisible; flowers rat 
small, white, 4-merous, shortly pedicelled, usually by threes on @ 3-6 
lin. long slightly pubescent peduncle in the axils of the leaves — 
the females solitary on very short, nodding, pubescent peduncles; — 
calyx nearly 3 lin. long, glabrous outside, densely tawny-tomentos? 
corolla tawny-tomentose outsides 
