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Fruit sub-sessile, solitary, ovoid-eonie, finely rusty-setose, especially 
in the upper half, about 1 in. long and - 5 to - 75 in. across, apieulate. 
Seeds about 4, albumen not ruminate. Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. 
Ind. III. 553. 
Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 1514. Perak: King’s Collector 5127, 
6770. Penang : Curtis 1584. 
9. Diospyros LANCEiEFOLiA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 93 (1814). A tree ; 
young branches twice as thick as a crow-quill, adpressed-puberulous, 
dark brown when dry. Leaves alternate, coriaceous ; oblong, lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base rounded or cuneate, 
the edges recurved; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the 
upper darker and shining, the lower paler and dull ; main-nerves 7 to 
9 pairs, spreading, faint on both surfaces ; midrib bold on the lower 
surface, depressed on the upper ; length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth - 65 to 
1 in. ; petiole -15 to -2 in. Male flowers sessile in clusters. Calyx 
•15 in. long with 4 ovate tawny-sericeous lobes. Corolla '35 to - 5 in. 
long, narrowed upwards, the lobes - 15 in. long. Stamens about 16; 
anthers linear, glabrous or slightly pilose at the base ; filaments 
minutely pilose. Female flowers solitary or in pairs on the branches 
below the leaves, -5 in. long. Calyx -3 in. long, very coriaceous, 
densely sericeous-pubescent on both surfaces, deeply divided into 
4 erect, broadly reniform, acute lobes. Corolla a little longer than 
the calyx, densely sericeous-tomentose outside, the tube glabrous 
inside ; lobes of limb 4, oblong, very thick. Staminodes 8, linear 
compressed. Ovary broadly ovate, acuminate, densely silky; stigmas 
4, glabrous. Fruit ovoid or sub-globose, rusty-villous ; its calyx 1 in. 
in diam. with thickened tube and spreading lobes. Roxb. FI. Ind. 
II. 537 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 232 ; Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. 
XII. 213 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XLVI., ii. 236, and For. FI. 
II. 136 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 562. D. multiflora. 
Wall. Cat. 4144; A. DC. l.c. 231. D. amcena, Wall. Cat. 4139; 
A. DC. l.c. 231. 
Singapore : Ridley 4964. Pahang : Ridley 1601. — Distrib. 
Assam range of hills, Burma, Sumatra. 
The chief characters separating this from I), lucida, Wall., are the longer lobes of 
the calyx of the female flower and the somewhat larger and more hairy fruit. This 
species is not common within our area, whereas D. lucida is a common tree. 
10. Diospyros pachyphylla, Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 
568 (1882). A tree ; young branches rather thinner than a goose-quill, 
deciduously puberulous, soon glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, alternate ; 
elliptic or oblong, sub-acute, the base rounded ; both surfaces when 
