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EBENACEAE. 
DlOSPYROS SYLVATICA. (Roxb.) A middling sized tree, glabrous except the inflorescence which as well as the 
young parts is generally minutely puberulous leaves (turning black in drying) elliptic-oblong acuminate at the apex and attenuated at 
the base 4-5 inches long by 1^-2 broad, petioles 2-3 lines long, male peduncles about as long as the petiole with a caducous bract at the 
base, 6-10 flowered, pedicels very short, calyx and corol 3-4 lobed the latter 2-3 times as long as the former, anthers 13-22, filament 
seated on the globose torus single and double mixed, no rudiment of an ovary ; female flowers solitary on short peduncles, much larger 
than the male with an ample calyx, sterile stamens 4 inserted on the corol, styles 3-4, ovary 6-8 celled, fruit spherical 8 lines in 
diameter, seed oblong 6 lines long, 4 lines broad, albumen ruminate. Roxb. FI, Ind. ii. 537 ;— DC. Prod. viii. 231;— Thw. En. PI. 
Zey. p. 178. 
Common in many of our Western Coast forests up to about 3,000 feet, also in the forests of the Northern division and in 
Ceylon, called Tella-goda in Teligoo, flowers in the hot weather. 
PLATE No. CXXI. 
DlOSPYROS1OPOSIA. (Hain.) A middling sized tree, glabrous, leaves coriaceous, elliptic lanceolate attenuated 
at both ends 4-5 inches long by 1J-2 broad, very closely and prominently reticulated (when dry) petioles nearly | an inch long, male 
inflorescence in 3 flowered cymes on peduncles f inch long on the lower leafless portions of the branchlets or in the axils of the lower 
leaves, calyx rough but not hairy quite entire when young at length splitting irregularly at the apex, lobes acute unequal, corol hairy 
on the outside 4 lobed at the apex, stamens 20-30 in pairs of unequal lengto inserted on to the torus, female flowers solitary, stamens 
12-16, stigmas 4, ovary 4-6 celled, fruit spherical size of a very large strawberry glabrous but rough. 
Tinnevelly hills in damp forests 3-4,000 feet (called Toveray) Ceylon, (called Kahakaala) Silhet mountains. I have never met 
with the female tree ; the specimen figured is from Tinnevelly, but the dissections of the female flower are from drawings executed in 
the Peradenia Plerbarium in Ceylon. 
PLATE No. CXXIL 
DlOSPYROS CALYCINA. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, everywhere glabrous, leaves dark shining green narrow lan¬ 
ceolate attenuated at the base, tapering at the apex into a very blunt point, about 3-3J inches long by a little less than 1 inch broad, 
petioles about \ inch long, male cymes about half the length of the leaves 3-9 flowered, calyx small 4 toothed, corol urceolate very gib¬ 
bous at the base 4 lobed at the apex, bright yellow in color, stamens 6 or 8, each with 2 anthers of equal length, inserted on the disk 
surrounding the large rudimentary ovary, apex of the anthers inflexed and meeting over the sterile ovary which latter is 5 lobed and 
terminates in a long acumination, filaments slightly hairy. Female flowers solitary on long peduncles nearly half the length of the 
leaves, calyx of 4, rarely only 3, large cordate imbricate nerved segments which enlarge with the fruit, corol urceolate gibbous, tube 
nearly globose, 4 rarely only 3 cleft at the apex, divisions reflexed, staminodia none, ovary 4 celled, stigmas 4 or 3 sessile, fruit globose 
covered with hairlike scales. Bedd. Annual Report of the Conservator of Forests Madras Presidency for 1867-68 t, 1 and 2. 
This very curious species of Diospyros has only been observed in the Tinnevelly district and southern portions of Madura, 
where, however, it is very abundaut in the ghat forests from the foot up to 3,000 feet elevation ; it is called Vellay Toveray and yields a 
valuable light colored wood, which is much in use in the Tinnevelly district. 
PLATE No. CXXIIT. 
DlOSPYROS NIGRICANS. (Dalz.) Arboreous, glabrous turning very black in drying, leaves membranaceous glabrous 
oblong with a rather sudden acumination, and slightly attenuated at the base, 4-5 inches long by l|-2 broad, petioles inch long, 
male flowers in small 3 flowered cymes crowded on small axillary ramuli, calyx 4 parted to the middle, lobes rounded or sub-acute 
pilose and ciliate, corol 4 cleft glabrous, lobes rounded or emarginate, stamens about 26 of unequal length, filaments all single and 
inserted in 2 rows on to the base of the corol, round a small 10 lobed rudiment of an ovary, female flowers solitary, calyx enlarging in 
fruit with the lobes much reflexeu fruit glabrous, globose depressed 8 celled.— Dalz. Ploofc. Jour, of Bot. iv. p. 110. 
Bombay ghats, the specimen figured is from Matheran (female specimens imperfect.) 
PLATE No. CXXIV. 
DlOSPYROS PANICULATA. (Dalz.) A middling sized tree, branches glabrous, leaves glabrous lanceolate oblong 
obtusely acuminate very coriaceous veins closely reticulated (as in Toposia) 5-9 inches long by lJ-2^ broad, petioles inch long, 
male flowers in axillary several flowered velvetty cymes, about ^rd the length of the leaves furnished with large ovate obtuse deciduous 
bracts, calyx ventricose 5 parted segments foliaceous with the margins reflexed reticulately veined, broadly oval obtuse and apiculated, 
corol velvetty outside, twice the length of the calyx, gibbous at the base and contracted at the mouth, the 5 segments oblong-obtuse as 
long as the tube, stamens about 20 in pairs subequal in length inserted on the base of the tube and nearl}' equalling it in length ; 
female flowers solitary from the branches between the leaves,- peduncles 2-3 times as long as the petioles furnished with 2 large ovate 
