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subhyalinum. Embryo centralis, rectus. Cotyledones plane, 
ovales, æquales. Radicula longa, supera. 
The most essential difference between this fruit and that of 
the Diospyros insculpta is, that the cotyledons of the latter are 
folded, while those of D. cordata are plain. Should this diffe- 
rence be found general between the species with distinct fila- 
ments and those with filaments united by pairs, especially if the 
distinction should be accompanied by any remarkable difference 
in external appearance, such as between the D. insculpta and 
D. cordata, there might be room for distinguishing Diospyros 
from Cavanilla. 
I have presented to the same collection (Cat. No. 2387) 
another kindred species, of which I have seen only the male 
flowers. These have a structure very similar to that of the 
D. Mabolo or D. exculpta, 
Diospyros Toposia. 
Toposi Bengalensium. EF te d 
Colitur ad Camrupz pagos, ob flores fragrantes dilecta. 
Arbor magna ramulis teretibus glabriusculis. Folia alterna, 
ovata vel ovato-oblonga, basi acutiuscula, acuminata, inte- 
gerrima, vix costata, venis minutissimè reticulata, utrinque 
glaberrima, supra lucida.  Petiolus brevissimus, supra con- 
cavus, non stipulaceus. 
In arbore masculina pedunculi plerumque ex foliorum axillis 
in ramulo imorum, vel infrafoliacei, solitarii, 2- seu 3-flori, 
brevissimi, teretes, vel aliquando terminales, multiflori, 
subpaniculati, vix bracteati. Flores mediocres, lutei. 
Calyx parvus, 2—4-fidus, obtusus, petalo arcte adherens. Co- 
rolla carnosa, ore quinquefido ovata.  Lacinie cordatæ, 
altero laterum interiore oblique. Anthere plures, indefi- 
nitæ, e basi corolla subsessiles tetragonæ, acutæ, latere 
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