Diospyrus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. | 533 
from four to six inches long, and from two to three 
broad. Petioles short, very downy. 
Mave Pepunc Les axillary or round the base of the 
young downy shoots, round, recurved, very downy, 
three-flowered. . Flowers small, whitish. Bractes small, 
_ covered with much ferruginous down. Calyx gibbous, 
very downy, four-toothed. Corol ; tube gibbous, downy. 
Border of four cordate, downy, contorted divisions. 
Stamens about twelve, inserted on a receptacle in the 
centre of the corol, and shorter than its tube, 
FEMALE Prpuncues’ axillary, ‘solitary, ‘very short, 
one flowered. Calyx five-cleft, downy on the outside, 
and hairy on the inside, divisions triangular, with waved 
reflexed margins. Corol; tube short, cylindric, hairy ; 
mouth five-parted. Stamens none. Germ round, hairy, 
five-celled, with one ovula in each. Styles two. Berry 
ovate, as large as a pigeon’s egg, covered with a smooth, 
hard. bark, which becomes yellow when ripe, and is 
filled with a soft yellow, edible pulp. | Seeds as far as 
five, when all come to perfection. 
5. D. glutinosa. Konig. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth. MALE PEDUNCLES 
from three to four-flowered, with about twenty filaments, 
and forty anthers. HERMAPHRODITE aNianes usicacnge 
one to four. Styles four. 
- Embryopteris glutenifera. Willd. 4. p- 836. R. Co- 
rom. pl. 1. N. 70. and I suspect Embryopteris , pere- 
grina, Gert. Sem. 1. 145. t, 29. to be the same, and 
that by some mistake or accident, the fruit, &c. have 
-been inverted. 
Zindookd, the Sanscrit name. 
Hind. and Beng. Gaub. 
- Teling. Tumika. iy 
~. Panitsjika-marum. Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 41. icacggegedle 
.» Acmiddle sized tree, growing in the mnclatxiee: valle, 
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