136 EBENACER. [ Diospyros. 
16. D, sapotoides, Kz.—An evergreen tree (40—50+415—265 
+3—4), the young shoots covered with a fugaceous rusty-coloured 
thin pubescence; bark smooth, greenish dark-grey; leaves ellip- 
tically oblong or elliptical, obtuse at the base, on a glabrescent 
thick petiole hardly } an in. long, 6-8 in. long, shortly and 
bluntish acuminate, entire, coriaceous, the net-veination very lax, 
faint and impressed ; flowers 4-merous, yellowish white, resembling 
those of D. sapota, almost sessile, clustered on a very thick, short, 
axillary peduncle; calyx rusty-pubescent outside, the lobes ovate- 
lanceolate, with the margins reflexed and at the base auricle-like 
revolute, nearly 3 lin. long, acuminate; corolla-tube urceolate, 
nearly twice as long as the calyx, somewhat rusty-pubescent out- 
side, the lobes obovate, nearly as long as the tube; stamens 14-16, 
in two rows, glabrous in the females about 12, unequal, inserted at 
the base of the corolla-tube; anthers ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
ovary in males absent, in females ovate, quite glabrous; the style 
tolerably long, 4-cleft. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah.—Fl. Apr.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
17. D. lancexfolia, Roxb.—An evergreen middling-sized tree, 
glabrous, the leaf-buds appressed tawny-pubescent ; leaves lanceo- 
ate to oblong, on a 2-8 lin. long petiole, 3-5 in. long, acumi- 
nate or apiculate, coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves impressed above, 
beneath prominent and the net-veination between rather dense; 
flowers rather small, 4-merous, yellowish white, sessile, the males 
in poor dense axillary clusters, the females solitary ; calyx bell- 
shaped, densely rusty- or tawny-tomentose, the lobes oblong, acute 
corolla outside silky-pubescent, the tube short and almost ovate- 
urceolate, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes, the lobes oblong, 
somewhat acute, about a line long ; stamens singly, about 16, mn- 
serted on the torus, in the females reduced in number to 8-10 and 
inserted at the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments short; anthers 
linear, mucronate ; ovary in females densely tawny-pubescent, 
celled; styles short, as many as cells; berries ovoid-oblong, shortly 
and densely tawny-pubescent, about an inch long, supported by t 
enlarged tawny-pubescent- calyx and a few rotundate bracts. 
- Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. March. 
18. D. pyrrhocarpa, Miq.—An evergreen tree (50—60+(?) 
+6—8), con, the leaf-buds appressed ge Aaling ms leaves 
oblong to elliptically oblong and elliptically lanceolate, on a strong 
3-5 lin. long petiole, 4-6 in. long, shortly and bluntish acuminate, — 
rather coriaceous, entire, glabrous, the nerves and net-veination thin, 
but strong and conspicuous ; flowers whitish, 4-merous, the females 
solitary, on very short tawny-tomentose peduncles; calyx velvety, 
