240 | DIOECIA. OCTANDRIA. 
nes Of this” is genus, besides the above, there are 4 species 
indigenous to Europe, and 1 (the Athenian Poplar) to 
es islands of the Archipelago. _ 
797. “DIOSPYROS. L, (Persimon, Date-Plum.) 
Mase. Calix 4 to 6-cleft. Corolla urceo- 
late, 4 to 6-cleft. Stamina 8 to 16; filaments 
often producing 2 anthers. Fem. Flower as 
the male. Stigmas 4 or 5. oN to 12-seed- 
o 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate kn very satee'idhves: 
es ches. . D. wiagtniona. A. Dhedens. Ges. Branch- 
€s crowded with leaves; female flowers solitary; males 
_. by 3s, anthers villous. 
A genus of near 30 species, almost exclusively indige- 
nous to India and its islands; there are also 3 species in 
- tropical America, 2 at the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in Japan, 
_ and another (D. Lotus) common italy and Barbary. 
798 # SHEPHERDIA. t 
Mase. Calix 4-cleft. Corolla none. Stfa- - 
mina 8, included, alternating with 8 glands 
Fem. Calia 4-cleft, campanulate, superior. 
- Style 1. Stigma oblique, Berry 1-seeded. 
oa Small I spinescent trees, us the ae of Eleagnus: 
7 “sad 
en both sides smocth and equally covered with silvery 
bs: scales. Hippophae argentea, Pu. lor. Am. 1 p.115. Oss. 
Se * A small tree from 12 to 18 feet high; branchlets spines- 
‘i , » Leaves objong-ovate, obtuse, petiolate, on both 
- smooth and covered with peltaie scales which 
pe stEments subovate, obtuse, Boge re 4 squa- 
Has RE rdcounsey of of the B ' Wye eee 
den of Liverpool, a scienti horticulturist, Siac ‘whose 
flowers — subse female a PeOESTING 1 cue 
sasilgg 7 
owers small, 
iiss. 3:9.cepGalbae ‘A earse Pui chines” 
eras) appear ciliated. Male flowers divided 
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