240 DIOECIA. OCTANDRIA. 



Of this genus, besides the above, there are 4 species 

 Indigenous to Europe, and 1 (the Athenian Poplar) to 

 the islands of the Archipelago. 



797. DIOSPYROS. L, (Persimon, Date-Plum.) 

 Masc. Calix 4 to 6-clcft. Corolla urceo- 

 latc, 4 to 6-cleft. Stamina 8 to 16; filaments 

 often producini^ 2 anthers. Fem. Flower as 

 the male. Stigmas 4 or 5. Berry 8 to IS-seed- 

 €d. 



Trees or &hrubs, witli alternate and very entire leaves? 

 flowers axillary, subsessile; female flowers producing in- 

 fertile stamens. 



Species. 1. D. virginiana. /3. piibescens. Oes. Branch- 

 es crowded with leaves; female flowers solitary; males 

 by 3s, anthers villous. 



A genus of near 30 species, almost exclusively indige- 

 nous to India and its islands; there are also 3 species in 

 tropical America, 2 at the Cape of Good Hope, 1 in Japan, 

 and another ( Z>. Loins) common to Italy and Barbary. 



yS. ^SHEPHERDIA.f 



Ma.sc. Calijc 4-cleft. Corolla none. Sta- 

 inina 8, included, alternatinj^ with 8 glands 

 Fem. Calix 4-clefr, canipannlato, superior. 

 Style I, Stigma ohViquv, £ferri/l- seeded. 



Small spinescent trees, with the aspect of Elceagmis; 

 leaves entire, covered with silvery scales; flowers small, 

 laterally aggregated; berries diaphimous, scarlet, acid. 



Species. 1. S. argentcn. Leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 on b'lh sides smooth and equally covered v/ith silvery 

 scales. Hippophne argentea, Ph. Flor. Am. 1 p. 115. Obs. 

 A small tree from 12 to 18 feet high; branchlets spines- 

 cent. Leaves obiong-ovate, obtuse, petiolate, on both 

 sides smooth and covered v.ith pelta;e scales which 

 (through a lens) appear ciliaitd. Male flowers d \ ided 

 to the base, segments suhoval'^, obtuse, externally squa- 



f In honour of Mr. John Shepherd, curator of the Botanic ,t;ar- 

 ^en of Liverpool, a scientific horticuhuribt, nuough v^hose 

 exertions and the patronage of the celebrated Roscoe, that in- 

 stitution owes its present merit. 



