1030 EBENACEAE 
ORDER EBENALES—EBENAL ORDER 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled: blades simple. 
Flowers perfect, monoecious, or dioecious. Caly 3-12 partly united 
sepals. Corolla of 3-12 partly united petals. pac of as many 
stamens as there are corolla-lobes or twice as many or more, sometimes 
accompanied by staminodia. Gynoecium of 3-—several united carpels. 
Fruit capsular or baccate. 
Styles or Sree distinct: flowers mostly monoecious or 
dioeciou Fam.1. EBENACEAE. 
Styles and ‘stigmas united: flowers mostly perfect. 
Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, at least in our 
representatives, Fam. 2. SAPOTACEAE. 
Stamens twice as many as the corolla-lobes or more. 
Stamens in pees series. Fam. 3. SYMPLOCACEAE. 
tamens in 1 se Fam. 4. STYRACACEAE. 
FAMi,y 1. HBENACEAE — Esony FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves mostly alternate: blades entire. Flowers 
solitary or in cymes. Calyx of 3-7 partly united s persistent, accres- 
late. A 
cent. Corolla of 3-7 DS amled pud S, pl eolate. ndroecium 
of 3 or 4 times as many stamens as there ar Roco lobes Gynoecium 
of 3-several united carpels. Fruit a berry or once eapsular.—51x 
genera and about 275 species, mostly of tropieal regions. 
1. DIOSPYROS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves scattered: blades entire. 
Calyx 3-7 lobed. Corolla urceolate, white. Stamens with pubescent filaments: 
anthers opening lengthwise. Berry spheroidal or elongate. Seeds oblique. 
—About 160 species, mostly mn —PERSIMMONS. DaATE-PLUMS. SIMMONS. 
POoSSUMWOODS.—Spr. 
Larger anthers slender-subulate, 6-7 mm. long: seeds much longer 
than wide. 1. D. virginiana. 
Larger anthers stout- subulate, 4-5 mm. long: seeds slightly longer 
than wide. 2. D. Mosieri. 
1. D. virginiana L. Tree becoming 35 m. tall, with dark furrowed bark, or 
sometimes a shrub: leaf pud ovate, der or elli iptic, 8-20 em. long, aeute or 
me ubes ent, /3 
de ire varying to depress 
n diameter, thin-skinned: 
E Woods. fields, road-s ides 
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brown or nearly black heart- d is used 
for various tools and utensils. The fruit 
is edible when ripe. 
2. D. Mosieri Sape Tree nearly similar 
to that g) a baste , but lapin 
smaller rub: nate TA r with 
ovate or jettoiae orate dem ioe aa a corolla 6-8 mm. long: deus depressed- 
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