210 



55. EBENACE^, 



\_Diospyro%» 



Calyx tubo truncate. Fruit not clothed with 

 stinging hairs. Corolla white tomentosc. 

 Ftameiis 9-12 .,, 

 Corolla glabrous without. 



Ccrolla angled and usually curved in bud. 

 JStamens 1 6.24-32, in 8 bundles of 2-3 

 or 4 each 

 Corolla straight in bud, not angled. 



Stamens I6,'g1abrcus. A si)inous tree. 

 Stamens 4-0, pilose. An unarmed tree . 

 Calyx sub-similar in both sexes, larger in the female 

 flower. Corolla small, sub globose in bud, urceolate 

 when expanded. Albumen ruminated or equable. 

 Corolla glabrate without. I'^tamens 13-22. Albu- 

 men ruminated. Male flowers in small, con- 

 gested, many-flowered cymes 

 Corolla-lobes cilia te on the margins. Stamens 16. 

 Albumen equable. Male flowcrS in small 3- 

 flowered cymes. Fruit 1- seeded ... 

 Corolla glabrous without. Stamens IG. Albu- 

 men equable. Flowers sub - sessile, fascicled. 

 4-10 together. Fruit 2-3-sceded 

 Calyx dissimibir in the 2 sexes, larger in the female. 

 C< rolla ovoid-tubular in bud. Albumen ruminated. 

 Male flowers in short peduncled cymes. 



Corolla yellow, lanate without. Stamens 



12-16. Fruit about 1 in. in diameter 

 Corolla fulvous-silky without. Stamens 12. 

 Fruit about 2 in. in diameter 

 Male flowers fascicled. 



Corolla yellow tomentose without. Stamens 

 10 



Male flow-ers panicled. 



Corolla black velvetty without. Stnmcns 20 ... 



2, D, oocarpa. 



3. -D. assimilis* 



4. D. montancf,. 



5« D. JEmhryopieris!, 



6. i>. sylvatica, 



7. D. micropTiylla, 



8. D. CJdoroxylon. 



9. D. melanoxylono 



10. D. crumenata. 



11. D. Candolleana. 



12. D. jpanicnlata. 



L D. pruriens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Jonr. IV. 110 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 55S : 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 141 ; Berid. Fl. Sylv. 144. Western gb^ts from 

 Kanara to the Bababuden hills in Mysore. In the evergreen forests ot 

 the southern ghats of North Kanara, common. El. Nov.-Feb. Fr. H. 

 & R. S, A small tree. Bark dark-coloured, scaly. 



2. D. oocarpa, Thwaites Enum. 180 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 560. 



Konkan, Mysore and Ceylon. In the evergreen forests of North 

 Kanara and Konkan ; common on the ghats from Kaiwar to Ainshir 

 Fl. Jan.,Mch. Fr. ripe June. A small or moderate sized tree. Bark 

 dark-coloured, thin, smooth. Wood purplish -brown with black streaks 

 moderately hard, handsome. Pores moderate-sized. Med. rays very fine 

 and numerous. Numerous fine wavy concentric lines. Weighs 45 lbs. 

 to the cub. ft. Gamble. 



3. D. assimilis, Bodd. in Mad. For. Rep. 1866-67. 20. t. 1 ; Fl. Br. 



I. 3. 558 ; D. nigricans, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 141. Ebony. Kare, K. ; 

 Ahnusj malia^ M. 



Western Ghats from North Kanara to Malabar, In the evergreen 

 forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. Fl. Feb., Mch. Fr. H. S. 



