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DIOSPYROS Embryopteris. Femina. 
+  Polyandrous Date-Plum. Fertile-flowered. 
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POLYGAMIA DICECIA (v. DICECIA POLYANDRIA.) 
Nat. ord. GUAIACANE. Jussieu gen. 156. Div. I. Stamina definita. 
EBENACER. Brown prod. 1. 524. 
DIOSPYROS. Flores polygami (in Embryopteri dioici). Cal. pro- 
funde 4-(nunc 3-v. 6-) fidus. Cor. urceolata, 4-(nunc 3- v. 6-) fide. Masc. 
Stamina basi corolla inserta, ejusdem lacinis dupla (in Embryopteri qua- 
drupla). Filamenta duplicata. — Rudimentum pistilli. HERMAPH. FEM. 
Stamina effota, pauciora. Germen 8-12-loculare, loculis monospermis. 
Bacca globosa, calyce patenti demüm reflexo. Brown prod. 1. 625. 
EMBRYOPTERIS Garín. et Roxb. differt solùm staminibus ratione lacini- 
arum coroll quadruplis. Brown L c. 
D. Embryopteris, foliis lanceolato-oblongis, floribus axillaribus polyandris, 
bacea octosperma. Persoon syn. 2. 624. 
Embryopteris glutinifera. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 836. Roxburgh corom. 1. 49. t. 
,"O. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 407. : 
Embryopteris peregrina. Gert. sem. 1. 145. t. 29. fig. 2. 
Mabola des Philippines. Cavanillea philippensis. Zamarck encyc. 3. 663. 
Jussieu in ann. du mus. 5. 418. 
Tumika. Telingis. Mangostan-utan. Malaicis. Lym appel. Batavis. 
Arbor medie magnitudinis, rectus, cortice glabriusoudo fusco-ferruginoso, 
ramis sparsis, patentibus (novellis glabris). Fol. bifaria, alterna, lineari- 
oblonga, acuminata, lucido-glabra, coriacea, sesuncialia latitudine biun- 
ciali (è culturá exotic nobis duplo minora v. magis) novella tenera atque 
rubra: pet. brevis: stipule solitarie, vaginose, evolvente folio disrupte 
exindöque caduce. Mas. Pedunc. axillaris, solitarius, nutans, floribus 
3-4-v. pluribus, parvulis, albis: bractea parvule, caduca, singulo pedicello 
subtense. Fil. 20 v. circà, apice bifida: anth. 40 v. circa, lineares, erecta. 
Femina. Pedunc. axillaris, solitarius, simplex, uniflorus, flore albo 
plante mascule plurimim majore. Fil. 1-4, parva, brevia: anth. lineares, 
parve, casse. Germ. globosum: styli 4: stig. sepiùs trifida. Bacca glo- 
bosa. Malum medie magnitudinis subequans, pulposa, matura ferrugineo- 
lutescens, ferrugineo-farinosa: sem. 8, raro aliqua abortiva, nidulantia, 
reniformia, aciem versus attenuata. Roxb. (ex anglico versum). 
The tree which furnishes the true ebony of the Cabinet- 
maker is a congener of the present, and has suggested the 
name of the order. Embryopteris is said by the Chevalier 
de Lamarck likewise to afford a hard close-grained jet- 
black ebony. It is dioicous, bearing the barren flowers on 
one tree, the fertile ones on another; and to this last side of 
the species our present sample belongs. 
