Diospyros."] xc. ebenacej;. (C. B. Clarke.) 553 



2. DXOSPYROS, Linn. 



Trees or (rarely) shrutB. Leaves alternate, or (in Sect. Melonid) sometimes 

 sutopposite, entire. Flowers dioecious, very rarely polygamous, axillary and 

 short-pedicelled or in small cymes, sometimes (the females often) solitary ; 4r-5- 

 merouB, very rarely 3-merous. Cali/x lobed, often deeply (in Sect. JEberms 

 truncate), in the female often larger than in the male, often accrescent and 

 plicate or auriculate in fruit. Corolla tubular, salvershaped or campanulate, 

 shortly or deeply lohed, lobes twisted to the right. Made Jlowers : stamens 

 4-64, often 16 ; filaments distinct, paired or otherwise united ; anthers linear, 

 rarely short ; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers : staminodes 0-16 ; ovary 

 4-5-celled, or 8-10-celled, or 4-5-celled with imperfect dissepiments between 

 the ovules ; cells 1- (rarely 2-) ovuled ; styles (or stigmas) 1-4. Fruit globose, 

 ellipsoid, or ovoid-conic, often supported by the much enlarged, sometimes 

 woody, calyx ; flesh often pulpose or viscid. Seeds oblong, usually compressed, 

 albumen equable or (iu Sect. Melonia) ruminated. — Species 153, in the tropics 

 of the whole world ; a few in South Africa and North America. 



Sect. I. G-unisantlius (Genus A. DC. Prodr. vui. 219). Leaves alter- 

 nate, (adult) fulvous-pilose at least on the nerves beneath. Inflorescence male 

 in loose or short racemose few-flowered cymes, females subsolitary axillary. 

 Flowers 4r (rarely 4^5-) merous. Calyx divided nearly to the base, nearly similar 

 in the male and female flowers, little accrescent (where known) in fruit. Corolla 

 narrowly tubular in the bud, cinereous-pilose or glabrate without when ex- 

 panded ; lobes elliptic. Stamens glabrous, 12-16 (or ex Hiern sometimes in J). 

 apicidata 6-7 only). Ovary (where known) 4-ceUed ; cells 1-ovuled. Albumen 

 (only known in D. apiculatd) equable. 



1. 3>, pruriens, Dalz. in JSook. Kew Journ. iv. 110; leaves elliptic base 

 obtuse or cordate, male fl. long-pediceUed in small cymes, corolla fulvous-tomen- 

 tose without. Dnlz. ^ Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 141 ; Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. 1. 129, and 

 For. Man. 144 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soe. xii. 186, not of Thwaites. 



Bombay ; Salsell, Bitchie. Bababoodun Hmcs ; Law. 



Shoots fulvouB-pilose ; branchlets persistently villous. Leaves 3 by IJ in., tip 

 cuneate obtuse, base abruptly narrowed often cordate, fulvous-pilose especially on the 

 nerves beneath, ultimately glabrescent above, chartaceous scarcely coriaceous ; primary 

 nerves oblique, secondary not prominent; petiole i-J in. Malefl.: peduncles 0-| 

 in., 1-6-flowered ; bracts small ovate, glabrous -within, caducous; pedicels O-J in.; 

 calyx nearly 4-partite, lobes j in., oblong, hairy; corolla i^-J in., salvershaped, tube 

 rather longer than the calyx, lobes j-i in. oblong; stamens 13-14, glabrous. Female 

 fl. solitary ; peduncles ^ in. ; calyx and corolla nearly as in the males ; ovary 4-ceIL6d, 

 4-ovuled. Fruit f-1 in., ovoid-conical, densely clothed with fulvous stinging hairs ; 

 fruiting calyx scarcely enlarged. 



2. D. apiculatai Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 186; leaves 

 elliptic acuminate base obtuse or cordate, male fl. in short cymes, corolla 

 glabrous without. 



Penano ; Government Hill, Maiiigay. 



A tree, with slender stem 4 fl. high {Maingay) ; shoots fulvous-hirsute ; branchlets 

 persistently villous. Leaves 6J by 2J in., base abruptly narrowed mostly cordate, 

 fulvous-hirsute especially on the nerves beneath, ultimately glabrescent above, 

 chartaceous scarcely coriaceous ; primary nerves very oblique, much elevated beneath, 

 secondary not prominent; petiole jg-^ ™- Malefl. : peduncles 0-^ in., 1-4-flowered ; 

 bracts small, ovate, glabrous within, caducous ; pedicels 0-J in. ; calyx 1 in., nearly 

 4-partite, lobes lanceolate glabrous within downwards ; corolla ^-j in., salvershaped, 



