JDiospyros.] xc. EBENACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 571 



Trans. Camb. Phil, Soc. xii. 184 : Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 138. 



Uppbb Tbnassebim ; Srandis. — Distbib. Upper Birma. 



A tree ; branchlets pubescent. Leaves 8J by 2j in., or wider (Kurs) ; primary 

 nerves much raised beneath, oblique, secondary conspicuous, undulate ; petiole J in. 

 Male fl. : cymes 0-^ in., densely fascicled, on the old wood or in the axils of the 

 leaves ; calyx J in., divided more than half-way down, rusty villous ; corolla J in., 

 narrowly tubular, lobes short obtuse ; filaments densely pilose, anthers and connec- 

 tive glabrous. Female fl. : cymes 1 in., rusty pubescent ; bracts j'j in., lanceolate ; 

 pedicels \-^ in. ; calyx and corolla nearly as in the male but rather larger ; staminodes 

 5-8 ; ovary ovoid-conic, hairy, style hairy, stigmas 6-8 glabrous ; cells 6-10, 1-ovuled, 

 septa at flowering time complete. 



VBBT IMPBBFECTLT KNOWN SPECIES. 



D. CHABTACEA, Wall. Cat. 4135, partly ; glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate or nar- 

 rowly lanceolate acuminate, male fl. sessile in small clusters 4-merous, calyx elongate 

 cylindric lobes ovate ciliate, corolla short lobes obtuse, stamens 16-20 in pairs, 

 anthers hairy. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 232 ; Hiern m Tram. Camb. Phil. Soo. xii. 230 ; 

 Kurz in Jown. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 234, and For. Fl. ii. 129. — Martaban and Upper 

 Tenasserim ; not uncommon, Kurz. — Bisibib, Birma. 



Wallich has two sheets of this ; the type is a male in very young bud with small 

 narrow leaves ; the duplicate sheet is a male with medium large young flowers and 

 broad- almost ovate-lanceolate leaves. It is very doubtful whether the two belong 

 to the same species. Hiern has described the flowers from the duplicate sheet, while 

 he says the leaves are 2-9.} by i-3 in. elongate lanceolate, which seems intended to 

 cover both sheets of Wallich. Kurz flnds Hiem's plant " not uncommon " in British 

 Birma, but says the leaves are 4-5 in. long, ovate-oblong to oblong and oblong-lanceo- 

 late ; so that his plant can hardly be referred to the species of Wallich's type sheet 

 in which the leaves are uniformly small and narrow, running from 2\ by ^ in. to 3i 

 by I in. 



D. ELBGANS, Clarke ; leaves oblong acutely caudate fulvous-pilose on the nerves 

 beneath, male cymes small on J in. peduncles, corolla with a few scattered hairs 

 without or glabrate, calyx S^partite. 



Khasia Mts. ; Nunklow, alt. 3500 ft., Clarke. 



A small tree ; branches persistently fulvous-hirsute. Leaves 5J by Ij in., obtuse 

 at the base ; primary nerves oblique ; petiole ^ in. Male fl. (exceedingly young) 

 about 12 short-pedicelled in each cyme; cyme sometimes 1 ^ in. compound ; female 

 unknown. — Supposed allied to J), microphylla, but may be a Muba. , 



Vae. Hookeri ; shrubby, leaves less finely acuminate. D. stricta, Hiern in Trans. 

 Cairib. Phil. Soc. xii. 201, partly, not of Eoxburgh. — Chittagong, Seetakoond; 

 H.f. 4" T. — This differs from D. stricta in the hirsute branches and peduncled male 

 cymes. 



D. GEATA, Wall. Cat. 4142 ; leaves alternate oblong narrowed at both ends obtuse 

 glabrous, female flowers solitary subsessile, ovary fulvous-Mspid, fruit globose sub- 

 glabrous, fruiting calyx 6-fid pentagonal pubescent on both sides. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 

 232 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 264. — Nipal ; Wallich. 



Hiern thinks Wallich's fragmentary example may be D. lancesfolia, Eoxb. 



D. OEixENSis, Wight ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 264 ; leaves alternate 

 elliptic shortly obtusely acuminate base obtuse hairy at least on the midrib beneath, 

 fruits solitary axillary subglobose, fruiting calyx deeply 4-fld hairy without.^ 

 Courtallum ; Wight. — This looks like the female of D. stricta, Eoxb. Why Wight 

 named a Courtallum species orixensis does not appear. Hiern says that D. orixensis 

 of Klein and Willd. (A. DC. viii. 230) is probably L. montana, Boxb., with which 

 also Beddome agrees (For. Man. 143) ; but the short description of Willd. appears to 

 fit Wight's examples of D. orixensis very well. 



D. PYEBHOCAEPA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 250, 583; shoots pubescent soon 

 glabrescent, leaves elliptic-oblong shortly acuminate coriaceous densely reticulated, 

 flowers solitary short-peduncled rufous-tomentose, berries size of a cherry depressed- 

 globo.se rufous-orange-tomentose. Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 266 ; Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 236, and For. Fl. ii. 136.— West Sumatra. 



