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536 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Diospyrus. 
garden about sixteen feet; on the mountains of Tippera, 
Silhet, &c. where indigenous, they grow to a great size; 
but it is evidently a tree of very slow growth, as are 
most, if not the whole of the genus. Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate, acute, entire, of a 
firm texture, and deep smooth shining green on both 
sides, from six to ten inches long, and about two or 
three broad. Flowers collected in small, subsessile fasci- 
cles, over the thick woody branches, the hermaphrodite 
ones on one tree, and the male ones on another. The 
short, thick, scaly peduncles and calyx are clothed with 
much dark, olive-coloured down; the corol white and 
smooth. Calyx five or six-toothed, half the length of the 
tube of the corol. Corol one-petalled ; tube somewhat 
gibbous, margin five or six-parted; divisions contorted, 
sub-reniform, at first spreading then revolute. Filaments, 
ten or twelve, inserted into the base of the tube of the 
corol. Anthers sub-sagittate, small, and containing little 
pollen, whence I conclude there is a male tree, which I 
have not yet seen. Germ in the hermaphrodite flowers 
ovate, smooth. Style short. Stigmas five or six, thick- 
ening, expanding. Berry globular, a large apple, slight- 
ly scabrous, resting on the very thick enlarged caly% 
replete with yellowish edible pulp. Seeds ten or twelve, 
oblong, thin on the inner edge where they are raises to 
the central paca 
8. D. racemosa. Roxb. : 
Leaves from oblong to lanceolar, obtuse, glossy. Both 
male and hermaphrodite flowers on axillary, comos? 
racemes, the former with twenty or thirty stamina, the 
latter with twelve or sixteen; germ four-celled. Styl. 
none ; stigma four-cleft. Berries round, smooth, po 
as many as four seeds. : 
Goolul, the vernacular name in Silhet.. 
A middling sized tree, a native of the 
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