154 EBENACEZ. [ Diospyros. 
oblong ; stamens in males about 16, in females 8-10, inserted at 
the very base of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, bearded ; anthers 
inear, acuminate; ovary in males rudimentary, in the females 
oblong, densely tawny-tomentose, 4-celled (?). 
Has.— Adjoining provinces of Siam.—Fl. H.S. 
12. D. densiflora, Wall.—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous; 
leaves elliptical to oblong, on a thick 4-2 in, long petiole, 4-6 im. 
long, shortly acuminate or acute, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, glossy 
on both sides, entire; flowers in bud about 4% in. long, 4-merous, 
on shortly tomentose bracted pedicels, both sexes forming longer or 
shorter peduncled densely and shortly rusty-tomentose bracted 
cymes, either solitary or several together in the axils of the leaves 
or above the scars of the fallen leaves; bracts oblong, small, tomen- 
tose; calyx densely and shortly rusty-tomentose, deeply 4-cleft, 
the lobes oblong, blunt with revolute margins; corolla densely 
tawny-tomentose, the tube 4-cornered, somewhat longer than the 
calyx-lobes, little widened, the lobes about 2-24 lin, long, oblong; 
stamens in the males 15-16; filaments very short, hairy ; anthers 
glabrous, linear-oblong, acute, in the females reduced in number 
to about 10, smaller and infertile; ovary tawny-villous, in the 
males rudimentary; berries globose, heats an inch in diameter, 
tawny-puberulous and glabrescent, supported by the large penth 
nerved revolute-bordered calyx-lobes. 
HaB,—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Arracan and Martaban ; also 
Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb. ; Fr. March, tam, 
Ny fre 
the older branches ; pedicels in females stiff, about 4 in. long, often 
2-bracted towards the base ; calyx ca 4-lobed, the , 
lobes broadly ovate, revolute with the margins, in the females 3 
long or longer ; corolla urceolate, 4-gonous, velvety outside, 4-lobed; 
the lobes ovate, rather blunt ; stamens in the males 14-16, inserted 
at the base of the corolla-tube or on the disk, often united by pa 
the filaments short, hairy; anthers glabrous; in females 12,™° 
single row, pollenless ; ovary in males rudimentary, in the females 
densely velvety and hirsute, 8-celled ; styles 4, short, spreading: ; 
ae nares senrcoeys on the apex, }-3 in. thick, lack hated 
nearly glabrescent, the supporting calyx reaching nearly up % 3” 
an inch with its lobes sabe abt ining is ge 
Has.—Tenasserim, 
