Diospyrus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 529 
abounding in edible yellow, fleshy pulp, covered with a 
firm but soft skin, eight-celled. Seeds one in each cell, 
when all come to perfection, which is uncommon, from 
semi-orbicular to linear-oblong, compressed, attached 
from the apex to the top of a soft central receptacle. 
Integuments single, firm, pretty thick, brown, polished, 
two-valved, with a slender, lighter coloured groove run- 
ning down the back, or convex edge. Perisperm con- 
form to the seed, cartilaginous, pearl-coloured. Embryo 
inverse, half the length of the perisperm. Cotyledons 
two, ovate-oblong. Radicle subcylindric; straight, su- 
perior, with its apex close to the umbilicus. — j 
This tree is now pretty common about Calcutta, and 
I find it is not only a native of Japan but of China, and 
the mountains of Nepal, to the northward of Bengal. 
The fruit is tolerably pleasant, though by no means equal 
to a good apple, but what is worse, the trees about Cal- 
cutta are — neers: 
1. D. Ebenum. Kon. in. Suppl. pl. 440. 
Leaves short-petioled, alternate, bifarious, oblong, en- 
tire, polished. MaLe FLowERs sub-racemed, with about 
_ twenty anthers; HERMAPHRODITE solitary, octandrous. 
Style single. Stigma four-cleft. 
~ D. Ebenum. Suppl. p. 440. 
Hebenaster. Rump. Amb. vol. 3. p. 13. t. 6 em 
to be the same. 
2. D. Ebenaster. Willd. 4. 1109. 
This species is a tree of considerable magnitude, a 
native of Ceylon. There are many young trees in this 
garden, they grow slowly, and flower during the hot sea- 
Son, but have not yet produced fruit. 
Leaves short-petioled, bifarious, alternate, oblong, ‘en- 
tire, of a firm texture, and smooth on both sides ; from 
two to four incheslong. MALE FLOWERS ona. 
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