Diospyrus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _ §27 
The seeds yield a large quantity of oil by expression ; 
but it is thick, of a quality inferior to castor oil, and used 
only by the poorer people to burn. Large plantations of 
B. longifolia axe to be found about Tranquebar, Karikal, 
Nagur and Nagapatam ; but the proprietors do not find 
them answer their expectations. 
~ On the apices of the flowers, before they open, there is 
frequently a drop of a whitish, soft, tasteless resin to be 
found. 
3. B. butyracea, Roxb. itr Asiat, Res, 8. 477. 
Leaves obovate. Calyx fivé-leaved. Stamina from 
ihiite to forty crowning the subcylindric tube of the corol. — 
Frelwa_ or Phulwara, of the natives of the Almora 
hills, where the tree is indigenous. | Flowering time the 
month of J: anuary ; the seed ripensin August, Fora 
full account of this valuable species, see the volume of 
the Asiatic Researches above quoted. 
DIOSPYRUS. Schreb. gen. n. 1598. 
Gen. Cuar, Potycamous. HERMAPHRODITE. Ca- 
lyx and corol four, rarely five-cleft. Stamina varying in 
every species, and often abortive. Germ superior, many- 
celled, cells one-seeded, attachment superior. Styles 
three or four, rarely five, or one and variously divided. 
Berry from one to twelve-seeded. Embryo inverse, and 
furnished with a perisperm. res 
Mate in general on a different tree. Calyx and 
corol as in the hermaphrodite, but with stamina more nu- 
merous, and frequently with twin-anthers. 
1. Diospyrus. Kaki, Suppl. p. 439. Willd, 4. 1110. 
_ Leaves bifarious, ovate-cordate, downy. MALe pedun- 
cles three-flowered. Stamina about twenty ; hermaphro- 
dite solitary, octandrous. Style four-cleft. Stigmas bifid. 
