Menacew.] 



55. BBENACEiE. 



200 



wise united. Staminodes in the female flower resembling stamens 

 or 0. Ovary superior ; styles 2-8 ; cells as many or twice as many 

 as the styles, imperfectly septate ; ovules usually 1 in each cell, 

 attached to the inner angle of the cells, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous 

 or fleshy, indehiscent, several or few seeded. Seeds pendulous, 

 longitudinally furrowed, albumen equable or ruminated ; embryo 

 axile, radicle superior. 



Flowers 3-merous. Ovary 3-6-celled 1. MabA. 



Flowers 4-5-merous. Ovary 4-5-or 8-10-celled ... ... 3. DiospyrOS. 



1. MABA, J. R. & G. Porst. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers dioecious, axillary. 

 Calyx 3-partite or 3-fid, enlarged in fruit. Corolla-tube longer than 

 calyx, lobes 3, twisted to the right. Male fl. : stamens S~22 ; fila- 

 ments distinct or united; ovary rudimentary. Female fl. : stami- 

 nodes 0-12 ; ovary 3-celled5 ovules 6. Fruit 1-6-celledj 1-6 seeded. 

 Albumen not ruminated. 



Ovary densely hairy • ^ 1. M. nigresoens^ 



Ovary glabrous 2. M. micrantha, 



1. M. nigrescens, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 142; Fl. Br. I. 3. 551. 



Eahtarohida^ raTctarora^ M. ; Kulajhad, kari^ Kon. ; Hole huncha, K. 

 Western ghats from the Konkan to Mysore. 



In the evergreen forests of the Konkau and North Kanara, common 

 on the North Kanara ghats near Nilkund and the falls of Gairsoppah. 

 Fl. Dec. -Feb. Fr. Apl.-May. A small tree or large shrub. 



2. M. micrantha, Hiern. in Trans. Camb. PhH. Soc. XII. 133 ; FL 

 Br. I. 3. 552. EolochUus micranthus^ Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. FL J. 42 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 147. 



A small tree found on the southern ghats. Flowers in Feb. & Mch, 

 2. DIOSPYROS, L. 



Trees. Leaves entire, usually alternate. Flowers dioecious, axil- 

 lary, usually 4-5-merous. Calyx, lobed, lobes often accrescent in fruit. 

 Corolla tubular or urceolate, lobed, lobes twisted to the right. Male 

 fl. : stamens 4-64 often 16 ; ovary rudimentary. Female fl. : stami- 

 nodes 0-16 j ovary 4-5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; stigmas 1-4. Fruit 

 globose elHpsoid or ovoid, 1-10-seeded, often supported by the en- 

 larged calyx. Albumen equable or ruminated ; cotyledons foliaceous. 



Calyx sub-similar in both sexes. Corolla narrowly tubular in bud. Albumen 

 equable. 



Corolla pubescent without. 



Calyx divided to the base. Fruit clothed with stinging Lairg. 

 Corolla yellow fulvous — tomentose. Stamens 



12-16 «.* ... ... 1. D, pruriens, 



B 987—27 



