560 xc. EBENACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Biospyros. 



in. Malefl. 1-3 together in a most minute cyme; calyx i in., 4-lobed; lobed half- 

 ■way down, tube glabrate without lobes densely fulvous-pilose near their margins ; 

 stamens 16 (in the Indian examples). Female fl. solitary ; calyx and corolla nearly 

 as of the male ; ovary 4-celled, pubescent, cells 1-ovuled ; style short, bipartite. 

 Fruit \-\ by J-^ in., short-oylindric, glabrous 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seeds with 

 albumen not ruminated. — The anthers are exceedingly short, dehiscing at first by a 

 lozenge-shaped opening from the summit, but even at that time a groove is produced 

 from this opening nearly to the base of the cell. B. vaccinioides diifers in its very 

 narrow calyx-segments. 



22. D. Chloroxylon, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. 38, t. 49, and Fl. Ind. ii. 538 ; 

 leaves eUiptic or obovate-oMong hairy beneath, male fl. subsessile fascicled, 

 calyx small, lobes 4 deep ovate, corolla small urceolate nearly glabrous without. 

 Wall. Cat. 4118 ; A.. DC. Pi-odr. viii. 230 ; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 140 ; Hiei-n 

 in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 233; Brand. For. Fl. 297. D. tomentosa, 

 Lamh. Encye. t. 436, not of Roxb. D. capitulata, Wight Ic. tt. 1224, 1588 bis. 



Deocan Peninsula from Sitkat and Orissa southwards ; frequent. 



A middle-sized tree ; branches sometimes spinous. Leaves Ij by 1 in., usually 

 narrowed upwards or acute, base cuneate or obtuse, nerves not prominent ; petiole 

 J in. Male fl. 4-10 together, 4-merous ; calyx jj ™-< lobes ovate, glabrous within ; 

 corolla ^ in. ; stamens 16, glabrous ; anthers opening by small subapical slits, 

 subsequently extending nearly to their base. Female fl. solitary, sessile; calyx and 

 corolla as in the male but rather larger ; stamiuodes 7-9 ; ovary glabrous, styles 4 

 glabrous. Fruit ^ in. diam., globose, glabrous, 2-3-seeded ; fruiting calyx J in. diam., 

 nearly flat. — Wight says that his I), capittdata diliered by having the produced con- 

 nective bipartite, but this does not appear to be so in Wight's own Herbarium speci- 

 mens. As to D. glaiKa, Eottler (A. DC. Prodr. viii. 238), reduced here doubtfully 

 by Hiern, it is so imperfectly characterised that it may have been B. montana or 

 some totally remote species. 



Sect. IV. Ebenus (Hiem in Trans. Oamb. Phil. Soc. xii. 146). Leaves 

 alternate, adult glabrous. Flowers mostly 4-merous ; males in very small 

 cymes or fascicled ; females 1-3, sessile. Calyx obscurely lobed or nearly entire. 

 CoroUa narrowly tubular in the bud, fulvous-tomentoae without. Stame/ns 

 glabrous. Albumen equable. 



23. D. oocarpa, Thwaites JEnum. 180 ; leaves ovate obtusely acuminate 

 glabrous primary nerves oblique secondary little elevated, male fl. fascicled, 

 corolla tubular tomentose without, female calyx subtruncate. Hiern in Trans. 

 Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 171. 



Malabar Hills ; Law. Concan ; Balzell. Cbtlon ; Thwaites. 



A middle-sized tree. Leaves 4 by 1| in., base broadly rhomboid ; petiole J-J in. 

 Malefl. : cymes small, 3-7-floweTed; calyx ^ in., cylindric, silky; coroUa ^ in., 3-4- 

 lobed; stamens 9-12, glabrous. Femde fl. 1-3 together, subsessile, similar to and 

 scarcely larger than the male ; ovary 6-8-ceUed. Fruit 1 by } in., ellipsoid, young 

 narrowly cylindric ; fruiting-calyx short funnel-shaped, mouth \ in. (or more) wide, 

 entire. — Hiern follows Thwaites in reducing here B. Anwttiana, Miq. ; but Miquel's 

 authentic specimen at Kew is B. Candolleana. 



24. D. quaesita, Thwaites Enum. 179; leaves elliptic abruptly acumi- 

 nate pflabrous primary nerves numerous nearly horizontal reticulating nerves 

 conspicuous, male cymes small, corolla tubular minutely closely hairy without. 

 Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 128 {nervation bad), and For. Man. 145 ; Hiern in 

 Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 174. 



Ceylon ; Saffragam, and between Eatnapoora and Galle, Thwaites. 

 A huge tree. Leaves 7 by 3J in., base broadly rhomboid ; petiole ^ in. Malefl. : 

 cymes small, 3-9-flowered, pilose ; calyx \ in., tubular, pubescent, obscurely 4-5-lobed ; 



