DlOSPYROS OPPOSITIFOL1A. (Tliw.) A middling sized tree, leaves opposite slightly pilose when young at length 
quite glabrous firm in texture ovate or elliptic abruptly shortly-acuminate, rounded at the base veinlets parallel obscure, 2-6 inches 
long by l|-3 broad, petioles 1-2 lines long ; male, capituli few flowered, calyx 1 line long 4 lobed to nearly the middle, lobes acute, corol 
slender about 3 lines long, stamens about 8 unequal • female flowers unknown. 
Ceylon, up to an elevation of 1,000 feet ; called Kalumidereya. The timber much resembles the true calamander wood ; the 
plate is taken from a drawing executed in the Peradenia Herbarium in Ceylon. 
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Diospyros Gardneri. (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 long by l-J-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 5 lines long, tube slightly inflated, stamens about 12 all more or less connate at the base, filaments pilose ; female, flowers solitary 
erect, calyx 2J 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. PI. Zey. p. 181. 
Ceylon, up to 2,000 feet elevation; called Kadoombaireya. Yields a valuable timber for building and cabinet purposes. 
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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 wfith long hairs beneath when young, at length glabrous f to 1J inches long by f to | 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 ovary 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 common in South Canara, forests of the ghats and plains (Sooleya.) 
Wynad ; it has the habit of Leucoxylon buxifolium, Mig. 
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DlOSPYROS CaNARICA. (Bedd.) A good sized tree, glabrous, leaves oblong to obovato-oblong, with a blunt, 
acumination glabrous paler beneath 5-9 inches long by l-|--3 broad, petiole J-|- 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 on 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 
reflexed, sterile stamens 8-10 unequal in length in pairs 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 mara, allied to D. Arnottiana, Mig. 
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Diospyros Thwaitesii. (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 1-1|- broad, reddish brown when dry, petioles 
about \ an inch long. Male, flowers 1-3 sessile in the axils, bracteated, stamens 10-12 in pairs of nearly equal length inserted on to the 
base of the corol tube ; female, fhnvers as in the male, calyx enlarging in fruit, sterile stamens 5 on the corol tube, each auther tipped 
with 2 very long sefaj, styles 3, 2 cleft, ovary 4 celled, fruit subspherical, densely rufo-pilose 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 iNTiLAGIRICA. (Bedd.) Affiniddling sized tree, branchlets, young leaves and inflorescence densely rufo- 
tomentose, 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 cleft to, about tLe middle, corol 4 cleft wuth 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. CXXXYI. 
