Diospyrus. polyandria monogynia. 533 



from four to six inches long, and from two to three 

 broad. Petioles short, very downy. 



Male Peduncles 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 Peduncles 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 e^g, 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 solitary, with from 

 one to four. Styles four. 



Embryopteris glutenifera. Willd. 4. p. 836. R. Co- 

 rom. pi. 1. N. 70. and I suspect Embryopteris pere- 

 grina. Goert. Sem. 1. 145. t. 29 to be the same, and 

 that by some mistake or accident, the fruit, &c. have 

 been inverted. 



Tmdooka, the Sanscrit name. 



Hind, and Beng. Gaub. 



Teling. Tumika. 



Panitsjika-marum. Rheed. Mai. 3. t. 41. 



A middle sized tree, growing in the moist coo vallies, 



