Diospyrifs. polyandria monogynia. 527 



The seeds yield a large quantity of oil by expression ; 

 but it is thick, of a quality inferior to castor oil, and used 

 only by the poorer people to burn. Large plantations of 

 B. longifolia are to be found about Tranquebar, Karikal, 

 Nagur and Nagapatam ; but the proprietors do uotlind 

 them answer their expectations. 



On the apices of the flowers, before they open, there is 

 frequently a drop of a whitish, soft, tasteless resin to be 

 found. 



3. B. huiyracea. Roxh. in Asiat. Res. 8. 477. 



Leaves obovate. Calyx five-leaved. Stamina from 

 thirty to forty crowning the subcylindric tube of the corol. 



Frelwa or Phuhvara, of the natives of the Almora 

 hills, where the tree is indigenous. Flowering time the 

 month of January ; the seed ripens in August. For a 

 full account of this valuable species, see the volume of 

 the Asiatic Researches above quoted. 



DIOSPYRUS. Schreb.gen. n. 1598. 



Gen. Char. Polygamous. Hermaphrodite. Ca- 

 lyx and corol four, rarely five-cleft. Stamina varying in 

 every species, and often abortive. Germ superior, many- 

 celled, cells one-seeded, attachment superior. Styles 

 three or four, rarely five, or one and variously divided. 

 Berry from one to twelve-seeded. Embryo inverse, and 

 furnished with a peri sperm. 



Male in general on a different tree. Calyx and 

 corol as in the hermaphrodite, but with stamina more nu- 

 merous, and frequently with twin-anthers. 



1. Diospyrus. Kaki. Suppl p. 439. Willd. 4. 1110. 



Leaves bifarious, ovate-cordate, downy. Male pedun- 

 cles three-flowered. Stamina about twenty ; hermaphro- 

 dite solitary, octandrous. Style four-clefr. Stigmas bifid. 



