DxOSPYBOS OPPOSITIFOLFA. (Thw.) A middling 
long by 11-3 broad, petioles 1-2 lines long ; male, capituli few flowered, calyx 
slender about 3 lines loug, stamens about 8 unequal ; female flowers unknown 
Ceylon, up to an elevation of 1,000 feet; called Kalumidereya. The timber much resembles tin 
plate is taken from a drawing executed in the Peradenia Herbarium in Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CXXXL 
eiulets parallel obscure, 2-6 inches 
4 lobed to nearly the middle, lobes acute, corol 
DlOSPYROS Gardner!. (Thw.) A middling sized tree, branches terete glabrous, buds fusco pilose, leaves mem¬ 
branaceous glabrous and shining inconspicuously veined narrow oblong acuminate a little narrowed at the base, 3-7 inches loug by li-2 
broad, petioles 3-4 lines long. Male, flowers 1-4 axillary subsessile, calyx 2 lines long 4 parted to the middle, lobes triangular acute, 
corol 6 lines long, tube slightly inflated, stamens about 12 nil more or less connate at the base, filaments pilose ; female, flowers solitary 
erect, calyx lines long, lobes recurved, margins reflexed, ovary 8 celled, berry depresso-spherical apiculate (immature), 1 inch long 
fulvo-pilose when young at length glabrous shining and half hid in the much enlarged calyx. Thw. En. PL Zcy. p. 181. 
Ceylon, np to 2,000 feet elevation; called Eadoombaireya. Yields a valuable limber for building and cabinet purposes. 
PLATE No. CXXXII. 
DlOSPYROS MICROPHYLLA. (Bedd.) A lofty tree, trunk very straight, young branches verticellate, hirsute with 
long yellowish hairs, old branches glabrous, leaves alternate, elliptic obtusely acuminated, slightly attenuated at the base glabrous above, 
sparingly hirsute with loug hairs beneath when young, at length glabrous f to l£ inches long by | to f of an inch broad, petioles 1-2 
lines long ; male, capituli axillary subsessile 3 flowered bracteated, flowers very small about 1 line long, calyx 4 parted to the middle, 
divisions ovate acute hirsute on the outside, corol 4 cleft divisions rounded apiculate, hirsute on the outside in a line down the centre,’ 
anthers sixteen in pairs 1 longer than the other inserted on to the base of the corol tube, rudiment of the ovaiy small hairy inconspicu¬ 
ously 8 lobed ; female flowers solitary in the axils, as in the male, no rudiment of stamens, ovary 4 celled, stigmas 2_fruit not Seen 
Anamallays, dense forests up to 3,000 feet elevation ; very commou in South Canara, forests of the ghats and plains (Sooleya) 
Wjnad ; it has the habit of Leucoxylon buxifolium, Miff. 
PLATE No. CXXXIII. 
DlOSPYROS CaNARICA. (Bedd.) A good Btzed tree, glabrous, leaves oblong to obovato-oblong, with a blunt, 
acumination glabrous paler beneath 5-9 inches long by 1 £-3 broad, petiole inch long, male capitula axillary many flowered sub- 
sessile, flowers very small, calyx 5 cleft £ or | down, sericeous, corol about double as long as the calyx very silky ou the outside 
stamens 10 unequal in length in pairs inserted on to the base of the corol tube, a small ovoid hairy rudiment of an ovary; female 
flowers in axillary capitula, as in the male but rather larger, calyx 5 parted to below the middle, dilated between the lobes, and margins 
Teflexed, sterile stamens 8-10 unequal in length in paira inserted on to the base of the corol tube,ovary 4 celled, styles 2—fruit not seen* 
South Canara, plains near the foot of the ghats ; called Kara marn, allied to D. ArnoUiaua, A/iff. 
PLATE No. CXXXIV. 
DlOSPYROS ThWAITESLI. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence rufo-tomentose,’'leaves 
elliptic with a long gradual acumination slightly attenuated at the base, 4-5 inches long t-l£ broad, reddish brown when dry, petioles 
about | an inch loug. Male, flowers 1-3 sessile in the axils, bracteated, stamens 10-12 in paira of nearly equal length inserted on to the 
base of the corol tube ; female, flowers as in the male, calyx enlarging in fruit, sterile stamens 5 on the corol tube, each anther tipped 
with 2 very long set®, styles 3, 2 cleft, ovary 4 celled, fruit eubspherical, densely rnfo-piloae at length glabrous 7 8 lines in diameter, seed 
oblong black transversely striated 5 lines long 2$ lines broad, albumen ruminate. Diospyros Candolliana. Thw. En. PI, Zey p 181_ 
(not Wight.) 
Ceylon, at no great elevation ; allied to, but quite distinct from D. Candolliana of Wight 
PLATE No. CXXXV. 
DlOSPYROS NilAGIRICA. (Bedd.) A middling sized tree, branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence densely rufb- 
tomentoae, leaves elliptic attenuated at both ends glabrescent and shining above 5-6 inches long by about 2 inches broad ; male flowers, 
in axillary subsessile several flowered capitula bracteated, calyx 4 clefUto about the middle, corol 4 cleft with the lobes rounded, stamens 
16 unequal in length in 8 pairs inserted on to the base of the tube of the corol, filaments hairy, a small hairy ovoid rudiment of an 
ovary ; female flowers sessile or 2 in the axils of the leaves, calyx enlarging in fruit dilated between the lobes with the margin reflexed 
sterile stamens 8 alternately longer on single filaments inserted on to the base of the corol tube, styles 4 much reflexed, stigmas dilated, 
ovary 8 celled, fruit globose depressed size of a small greengage. 
Sispara ghat (Nilgiris), allied to D* Candolliana of Wight. 
PLATE No. CXXXVI. 
