518 LXXXI. EBENACE® (HIERN). [ Diospyros. 
Albumen of the seeds uniform. 
Calyx very shortly lobed. 
Leaves whitish beneath, firmly coriaceous. . . . + 4. D, batocana, 
Leaves membranous, not whitish beneath . . 5. D. senensis, 
Calyx cleft or partite. 
Fruit conical. Corolla-lobes acute. ; 
Ovary silky. Leaves obtuse not cordate at the base 6. D. tricolor. 
Ovary glabrous except the apex. Leaves cordate at 
thebase . . . . 1 1 ee ew ew ew ee) OO D, Barieri. 
Fruit globose. Corolla-lobes obtuse. 
Flowers on recurved peduncles or in comparatively 
lax cymes. 
Female flowers solitary. Staminodes0. . . . 8. D. squarrosa. 
Flowers cymose. Staminodes8 . . 9, D. Loureiriana. 
Flowers clustered subsessile or in very 
cymes. 
Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla . 10. D. Dendo. 
Stamens inserted at the base of the corolla or hy- 
pogynous. 
Corolla tubular, shortly lobed at the apex. Sta- 
mens 9-15, unequal. 
Filaments glabrous. Leaves velvety-puberu- 
lous beneath . 
Filaments pubescent. Leaves with scattered ve 
hairs beneath . . . . . . . «12. D. Heudelotit. 
Corolla subrotate. Stamens 15-17, nearly equal 13. D. Manni. 
Corolla egg-shaped. Stamens very numerous, . 
subequal. . 2. 2... we. 14, D. crassiflora. 
l. D. mespiliformis, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. U. nn. 
655, 1243. ° A shrub or tree, 6-40 ft. high or more; wood compact, 
often black in the middle; branches terete, more or less patent, gla- 
brescent; young shoots and inflorescence ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves 
oblong or elliptical, somewhat narrowed or rounded at each end, thinly 
coriaceous (the young ones softly pubescent and membranous) gla- 
brescent or with appressed hairs beneath, rather shining, 2-6 by 
8-24 Jn.; midrib depressed above; lateral and net-veins delicate ; 
margins just recurved; petiole 44 in. Flowers white, dicecious; 
inflorescence axillary, short. Male flowers few or many together, fer- 
ruginous-tomentose, } in. long, pentamerous or occasionally tetramer- 
ous ; bracteoles lanceolate, small; calyx cleft, 2 in. long, campanula 
or campanulate-oblong, hairy on both sides, lobes ovate or lanceolate ; 
corolla urceolate-oblong, shortly cleft, silky outside, glabrous inside, 
lobes spreading, pointed ; stamens 10-16, often in pairs, nearly gla- 
brous but with a narrow line of light-coloured hairs on the back of the 
anthers, inserted at the base of the corolla, filaments short, connective 
produced at the apex, pollen broadly ellipsoidal, smooth ; ovary rudi- 
mentary, hairy or wanting. Female flowers solitary or 3-1 together, 
pentamerous or tetramerous or rarely trimerons ; peduncles +3 -_ 
long; bracts narrow, caducous ; calyx hairy on both sides, acer 
late, deeply-lobed, lobes ovate acuminate with wavy margins ; agen 
shortly lobed, lobes pointed ; staminodes 6-8, in oue row, inserted @ 
the base of the corolla, glabrous ; ovary ovoid or conical, silky, LA. 
nated by 2 short hirsute bilobed styles, 4- or 8-celled and aounlet: 
abbreviated 
11. D. Kirki. 
