528 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Diospyrus. 
Kaki. Kempf. amoen. p. 805. 6. 7. 
The Chinese gardeners employed in the Botanic gard 
den at Calcutta call it Chin. 
A native of China, and from thence introduaed into. 
the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by the late Col. Kyd, 
where it blossoms in March. 
In ‘twelve years they have only grown to be from 
twelve to fifteen feet high, with but few sub-erect branches. 
The bark is pretty smooth, but of a dark brown colour, 
that of the young shoots downy. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, cordate, more or Jess 
acuminate, entire, very downy on both sides, particu- 
larly while young ; from two to five inches long, —_ pin 
one to four broad. Stipules none, 
AxBorTIVE HERMAPHRODITE, or rather male flowers 
small, yellow, sometimes on the same, sometimes on a dif- 
ferent tree. Peduncles axillary, and from the base of 
the young shoots, recurved, short, villous, from) one 0 
three or more-flowered. Bractes small, caducous. Ca- 
lyx four-cleft ; divisions ovate, half the length of the co- 
rol. Corol urceolate ; mouth four-cleft ; diviszons con- 
torted, sub-orbicular, emarginate, becoming revolute 5000 
after expansion. Filaments from sixteen to twenty- 
four, or even more, very short, inserted sometimes by 
hairs, sometimes singly round the bottom of the tube of 
the corol. Anthers sagittate, hid in the tube of the corol. 
Pistil none, or in some trees a small, conical: wile : 
gland. 
FrertTiLe HERMAPHRODITE flowers solitary, 0D , short 
drooping peduncles. Calyx and:corol-as in the abortive 
hermaphrodite, but larger, Filaments generally eight,sbort, 
inserted into the bottom of the tube of the corol. Anthers 
sagittate, with the barbs bearded. Germ superior, jconie 
cal, smooth, eight-celled, attached to the top of the»ax!s- 
Style four-cleft. Stigmastwo-lobed. ‘Berry nearly rounds 
the size of a small orange, when ripe yellow, er. and 
