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Diospyros.} EBENACER. 135 
14, D, flavicans, Hiern.An evergreen small tree, or large 
shrub 8-10 ft. high, the very young shoots slightly pubescent ; 
leaves elliptically to oblong-lanceolate and oblong, often a little 
oblique, on hardly a line long petiole, 2-3 in. long, bluntish 
acuminate, thin-coriaceous, entire, smooth, the nerves faint with- 
out net-veination ; flowers rather large, usually 4-merous, white, 
usually solitary or by 2, rarely more, on short, tawny-pubes- 
cent, large-bracted peduncles or almost sessile in the axils of 
the leaves; bracts obovate-lanceolate, densely appressed-pubes- 
cent, acute, 3-4 lin. long ; calyx appressed tawny-pubescent, more 
or less glabrescent, 4- (rarely 5-) -cleft, the lobes ovate, acumi- 
nate, unequal, 2 of them larger and nearly 3 lin. long; corolla 
in bud 4-gonous, 4 an inch long, the tube 4-cornered, inflated, 
as long as the calyx, pubescent at the narrowed neck, the lobes 
glabrous, as long as the tube; stamens 12-20, inserted by twos — 
in two rows at the base of the corolla-tube, the inner row half as 
long, in the females fewer and inserted higher up in the tube ; fila- 
ments rather short; anthers ovate, acuminate; ovary in the males 
absent, in the females 4-angular-ovate, glabrous, terminating in an 
erect 2-lobed style ; berries oblong, about 2 in. long, blunt, up to 
4-seeded, supported by the somewhat enlarged appressed calyx. 
.—Tenasserim, _ 
axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, acute, densely villous; calyx 
tawny-pubescent, 4-cleft, the lobes as long as the tube, oblong, 
_ Somewhat acute ; corolla tawny-pubescent outside, the tube a little 
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longer than the calyx, ovoid-urceolate, the lobes rotundate, about a 
e long ; stamens in the males 16, by pairs, inserted at the very 
base of the corolla-tube, the inner ones smaller ; anthers linear- 
oblong, acute, rusty-pilose at the base ; filaments very short ; ovary 
nirsute, in the males rudimentary ; berries globular, about an inch 
im diameter, covered with rusty-coloured appressed hairs, resting on 
the spreading densely pubescent calyx and supported by a very 
aoa: hardly a line long, few-bracted peduncle ; albumen homd- 
eous. 
Haz.—In the tropical forests of Martaban, Tenasserim, and the Andamans, 
—Fi, Apr-May ; Fr. Oct.-Feb.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
