Diospyros.~\ 
EBENACEifc. 
199 
pale green with reddish midrib and delicate reticulation beneath, 1-2 
by J-l in. ; those of the barren bottom-shoots or of young trees linear, 
^—2 by T V-i in. ; petiole T V~i in. Fruit sessile, globose or oblong, 
1-lf in. 12- or fewer-celled, resting at the base on a thick shortly 5-6- 
lobed appressed calyx. 
Rodriguez, on the slopes of hills, Bouton ! Balfour l Endemic. 
7. D. melanida, Poir. ; Hiern , Mon. 177. A tree, with slender 
terete virgate glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblong, obtuse, rigidly 
coriaceous, glossy, bright green, 3-4 in. long, deltoid or rather rounded 
at the base, the principal anastomosing veins only raised beneath ; 
petiole i— in. long. Flowers 1-4 from the crowded nodes, the bracts 
very minute. Flower-calyx a tomentose nearly truncate deep cup 
i in. long. Corolla lobes 5-6, a in. long and broad, round-obovate, 
densely brown-silky on the outside. Stamens 20-25. Fruit-calyx 
nearly flat, above an inch broad, the lobes produced at the border into 
a broad reflexed crisped wing. Fruit glossy, an inch thick, 10-celled. 
D. pterocalyx, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 200 : A. DC. Prod . viii. 225. 
Mauritius, in woods of tlie Savanne range, and at Nouvelle Decouverte and head 
of the Grande Riviere. We have a plant from Round Island, gathered hy Sir H. 
Barkly, with a fruit-calyx just like that described above, but with larger leaves 
more rounded at the base, and veining more like that of D. tessellaria. Endemic. 
Bois d'ebbne marbre. 
# D. discolor, Willd. ; Hiern, Mon. 260; (D. melanida, Sieber , non 
Poir. D. Embry opteris, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 200. non Pers ), a native of 
the Philippines and Malaya, is planted and half wild in Mauritius and the 
Seychelles. It is a tree 30-40 feet high, with black wood and wide- 
spreading densely pilose branches, oblong leaves 6-8 in. long silky 
beneath, a very silky calyx a in. long with round much imbricated lobes 
much longer than the tube, stamens 25-30, and a globose densely 
pilose fruit 2-4 inches thick. Mabolo. 
I am informed by Mr. Hiern that the original label of his D. plat y calyx, Mon. 
Eben. p. 267, which has been attributed to the Seychelles, shows that it is really a 
plant of Madagascar. 
D. membranacea , A. DC. Prod. viii. 227, is founded on cultivated Mauritian speci- 
mens of D. Ebenaster, Retz. (Z>. decandra, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 200). 
Order LXIY. B0RAGINACEJE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, usually pentamerous. Calyx persis- 
tent, deeply cleft. Corolla rotate, hypocrateriform or campanulate. Sta- 
mens 5, inserted in the corolla-tube, alternate with the lobes ; filaments 
usually short; anthers oblong, 2-eelled, slit longitudinally. Car- 
pels 4 ; ovules usually solitary in the cells, ascending, anatro- 
pous ; style simple or forked. Fruit a drupe, with bony pyrenes, 
