480 



LXIX. EBENACE.E 



[DiospyroH 



I^iG. 165. Diospyros paniculata, Dalz. J. 



J-l in. long, densely silky outside, segments longer than tube. ^ in the axils of the 

 upper 1., 1 or 2 together, stamens 14, glabrous, filaments on a fleshy torus, which 

 surrounds the -hairy ovary rudiment, unequal in length, the 5-6 longer ones (often 

 variously connate) forming an inner circle. $ solitary, pedicels up to J in, long, 

 ovary hairy. Fr. ovoid, |~1 in. long, densely clothed with stinging hairs, calyx scarcely 

 enlarged. 



6. D. stricta, Eoxb. Silhet. Tipperah. A tall tree, trunk straight to the top, 

 branchlets and petioles softly tomentose, leaves more or less hairy, membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, blade 3-4, pet. ^ in. El. 4-merous, white, c? sessile, 

 in axillary hirsute bracteate cymes, calyx and corolla hirsute, stamens 14-16, glabrous, 

 single, filaments as long as anthers. !Fr. glabrous, ovoid, IJ in., on a stout stalk J in. 

 long, suppoi-ted by the small hairy 4-lobed calyx, albumen uniform. 



(c) Corolla of $ fi. with lines of bairs along midrib of lobes, otherwise 

 glabrous. 



7. D. Chloroxylon, Boxb. Cor. H. t. 49.— Syn. D. capitulata^ Wigbt Ic. t. 

 1224 (J, 1588 (bis) ?, Yern. ISFensij Nhiai, M.Si>T, ; Ulling% Ullinda^ Valinda^ 



A shrub or small tree, axillary spines and spinescent branches frequent, branch- 

 lets densely nisty-tomentose. L. thinly coriaceous, upperside pubescent, under- 

 side rusty-tomentose, elliptic or obovate, blade 1-2, pet. i~-| in. long. Fl. very 

 small, white, 4-merous, sessile or nearly so, calyx cleft nearly to the base, 

 strigose outside witb stiff hairs, iS in small axillary clusters of 6-10 ii., 

 corolla -J-^ in. long, glabrous outside, except 4 longitudinal lines of stiff hairs, 

 segments erect, stamens 16, in 2 rows, slightly conoate at the base in pairs, 



