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WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
The object has been to work out all details of our 
recognized species rather than to subdivide into varieties. 
Hence the question of the possibility of two species in 
D. montana, Boxb., D. Embryopteris, Pers., and D. Ebenum, 
Koen.i is only briefly dealt with. I am, however, unable to 
agree with the grouping of D. Thwaitesii, Bedd ., D. Moonii, 
Thw., and D. hirsuta, L ., under one species—D. hirsuta, 
Linn.* as adopted in Hiern’s monograph, and have, therefore, 
for reasons obvious in the descriptions of these species, 
adopted the separate classification used by Trimen.* 
D. ovalifolia, R. Wight, Ic. 1.1,227 (1850). 
Kunumella, Habara, S. ; Vedukkanari, T. 
Thw. Enum. 181 (1864). C. P. 1825 (2,533). Fl. B. Ind. 
III., 557. Wight, Ic. 1.1,227 (1850). Hiern, Mon. Eben. 237. 
A moderate-sized tree, dioecious ; bark with brown and 
pale alternating streaks ; becomes partly deciduous in the 
dry season in the Northern Province ; flowers in September 
and fruits in March. Leaves 35-130 mm. long, 6-50 mm. 
wide, alternate, accrescent and crowded, oval or lanceolate- 
oblong, obtuse or rounded at apex, narrowed at base, glabrous, 
thinly coriaceous, paler beneath with prominent venation ; 
petiole 3-7 mm. long. 
Male inflorescence consists of sessile clusters of 3-7 flowers 
mainly on woody twigs ; bracts form a basal involucre. 
(See pi. XV., fig. 1.) 
Flowers yellow, 5-10 mm. long ; they appear from 
September to December. 
Calyx green, slightly hairy, and openly campanulate ; 
segments 4-5, apex rounded. 
Corolla yellow, urceolate, glabrous or nearly so, 5-8 mm. 
long ; segments 4-5, obtuse apex, recurved when mature. 
Stamens 13-20, paired, surrounding central rudimentary 
disc ; filaments unequal, about one-sixth the length of 
anthers ; anthers brown and glabrous. 
* I have, since writing the above, received a communication from 
W. P. Hiern, Esq., in which that gentleman agrees with the separate 
classification here adopted. 
