Diospyrus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 537 
countries east of Bengal, where it blossoms in April ; the 
fruit ripens in November, and is eaten by the natives. 
9. D. lanceefolia R. 
Leaves short-petioled, lanceolate, and polished. Flow- 
ers sessile ; the male flowers crowded in axillary heads ; 
the hermaphrodite solitary. 
Goolul the vernacular name in Silhet, where it grows 
to be a pretty large tree, and furnishes the natives with 
hard durable timber, for the construction of their habita- 
tions, &c. Flowering time in April; the fruit is edible. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, lanceolate, 
entire, lucid ; texture particularly hard ; from four to six 
inches long, and from one to two broad. 
Mave Fiowenrs sessile, and crowded together in the | 
axills of the present leaves as well as in those of last year; 
it is the only species I have yet met with that has sessile 
flowers. Calyx downy, four-toothed. Corol with gib- 
bous tube and imbricated four-parted border. Filaments 
about sixteen, short, inserted into the receptacles. An- 
thers linear. 
- HERMAPHRODITE Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, 
cernuous. Calyx déwny, from four to five-toothed; fro’ 
the apex a keel runs down on the outside. Corol downy 
onthe outside. Tube gibbous. Border from four to five- 
parted ; segments cordate, imbricated in the bud. Filaments 
from eight to ten, short, inserted on the base of the tube of 
the corol. Anthers linear. Germ hairy, ovate, torulose, 
eight-celled, with one ovu/a in each attached to the top of 
theaxis, Style scarcelyany. Stigma with about as many 
Short divisions as there are cells in the germ. 
10. D. sylvatica. Willd. 4.1108. R. Corom. R.1. No. 47. 
Leaves from oval to oblong, smooth. Male peduncles — 
many-flowered, with about eighteen single-antiegee fila- 
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