Diospyros.] lxxxviii. ebenace.e. 287 
Feringhi; Telok Bahang (Curtis). Distrib. St. Barbe Isle. Native 
names : Koguel; Kayu Arang. 
The specimens referred by King to the Indian D. lancecefolia are all of 
this species. D. lanceaefolia seems distinct in the much larger fruit and 
leaves. 
(14) D. polyalthioides Hiern, lx. 199, t. vii. 
Small tree; branchlets glabrous or nearly so. Leaves elliptic 
or lanceolate elliptic, short, blunt acuminate, thinly coriaceous, 
4*5 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; nerves fine, distinct beneath, 
3 to 5 pairs; petioles *25 in. long. Male flowers in cymes silky 
Fig. 99. —Diospyros lucida. 
ferruginous. Flowers silky, -5 in. long. Calyx campanulate, 
lobes 4 or 5 deltoid. Corolla tubular, shortly 4-lobed, lobes ovate. 
Stamens 8. Ovary 0 {fide Hiern). Female flowers solitary axillary 
on a short hairy peduncle -i in. long. Calyx cupular of 4 broad 
foliaceous sub-ovate truncate lobes, hairy on outside, densely 
yellow-hairy at base and centre, -15 in. long. Corolla *25 in. long, 
cylindric, tube yellow, hairy, lobes short, broad, glabrous. Fruit 
(ripe ?) ovoid densely red-hairy, shorter than the broad 4-angled, 
4-lobed, golden hairy calyx -3 in. long, lobes short, rounded, 
nearly -4 in. wide. Hab. Open country in the north. Lankawi 
(Curtis); Gunong Raya (Haniff). Perlis, Tebing Tinggi (Ridley). 
Distrib. Borneo. 
This bears a close resemblance to Hiern's figure, including the " dark 
depressed glands " on the lower part of the leaf which appear to me to be 
some species of fungus. I have no male specimen, and the female flowers 
are solitary, with the corolla longer than the calyx. 
