Diospyros. | XC. EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 558 
2. DIOSPYROS, Linn, 
Trees or (rarely) shrubs. Leaves alternate, or (in Sect. Melonia) sometimes 
subopposite, entire. Flowers dicecious, very rarely polygamous, axillary and 
short-pedicelled or in small cymes, sometimes (the females often) solitary; 4—5- 
merous, very rarely 3-merous. Calyx lobed, often deeply (in Sect. Ebenus 
truncate), in the female often larger than in the male, often accrescent and 
plicate or auriculate in fruit. Corolla tubular, salvershaped or campanulate, 
shortly or deeply lobed, lobes twisted to the right. Male flowers: stamens 
4—04, often 16; filaments distinct, paired or otherwise united ; anthers linear, 
rarely short; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers: staminodes 0-16; ovary 
4-5-celled, or 8-10-celled, or 4-5-celled with imperfect dissepiments between 
the ovules; cells 1- (rarely 2-) ovuled ; styles (or stigmas) 1-4. Fruit globose, 
ellipsoid, or ovoid-conie, often supported by the much enlarged, sometimes 
woody, calyx; flesh often pulpose or viscid. Seeds oblong, usually compressed, 
albumen equable or (in Sect. Melonia) ruminated.—Species 153, in the tropics 
of the whole world ; a few in South Africa and North America. 
Secr. I. Gunisanthus (Genus A. DC. Prodr. viii. 219). Leaves alter- 
nate, (adult) fulvous-pilose at least on the nerves beneath. Inflorescence male 
in loose or short racemose few-flowered cymes, females subsolitary axillary. 
Flowers 4- (rarely 4—5-) merous. Calyx divided nearly to the base, nearly similar 
in the male and female flowers, little accrescent (where known) in fruit. Corolla 
narrowly tubular in the bud, cinereous-pilose or glabrate without when ex- 
panded ; lobes elliptic. Stamens glabrous, 12-16 (or ex Hiern sometimes in D. 
apiculata 6-7 only). Ovary (where known) 4-celled ; cells l-ovuled. Albumen 
(only known in D. apiculata) equable. 
l. D. pruriens, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. iv. 110; leaves elliptic base 
obtuse or cordate, male fl. long-pedicelled in small cymes, corolla fulvous-tomen- 
tose without. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 141; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 129, and 
For. Man. 144; Hiern in Trans. Camb, Phil. Soc. xii. 185, not of Thwaites. 
Bompay; Dalzell, Ritchie. BaABABoopnuN Huis; Law. 
Shoots fulvous-pilose ; branchlets persistently villous. Leaves 3 by 1} in., tip 
cuneate obtuse, base abruptly narrowed often cordate, fulvous-pilose especially on the 
nerves beneath, ultimately glabrescent above, chartaceous scarcely coriaceous ; primary 
nerves oblique, secondary not prominent; petiole 4-4 in. Male fl.: peduncles 0-+ 
in. 1-5-flowered ; bracts small ovate, glabrous within, caducous ; pedicels 0-1 in. ; 
calyx nearly 4-partite, lobes 1 in., oblong, hairy; corolla 3-2 in., salvershaped, tube 
rather longer than the calyx, lobes 1-3 in. oblong; stamens 13-14, glabrous. Female 
Jl. solitary ; peduncles 3 in. ; calyx and corolla nearly as in the males ; ovary 4-celled, 
4-ovuled. Fruit $-1 in., ovoid-conical, densely clothed with fulvous stinging hairs ; 
fruiting calyx scarcely enlarged. d 
2. D. apiculata, Hiern in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 186; leaves 
elliptic acuminate base obtuse or cordate, male fl. in short cymes, corolla 
glabrous without. 
PrnaneG ; Government Hill, Maingay. 
A tree, with slender stem 4 ft. high (Maingay); shoots fulvous-hirsute ; branchlets 
persistently villous. Leaves 54 by 2} in., base abruptly narrowed mostly cordate, 
fulvous-hirsute especially on the nerves beneath, ultimately glabrescent above, 
chartaceous scarcely coriaceous; primary nerves very oblique, much elevated beneath, 
secondary not prominent; petiole JA in. Male fl.: peduncles 0-3 in., 1-4-flowered ; 
bracts small, ovate, glabrous within, caducous ` pedicels 0-3 in. ; calyx } in., nearly 
4-partite, lobes lanceolate glabrous within downwards ; corolla 4—3 in., salvershaped, 
