364 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. DIOSPYROS Linnaeus 
Trees or shrubs. Flowers dioecious, rarely polygamous, axillary, 4- 
or 5-merous. Calyx usually deeply lobed, sometimes truncate, that of 
the female flowers often larger than in the males, usually more or less 
enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular, salver-shaped or campanulate, shortly 
or deeply lobed, the lobes imbricate. Male flowers with from 4 to 60 
stamens, often 16, the filaments often paired or otherwise united; anthers 
linear; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers with 0 to 16 staminodes; ovary 
4- to 10-celled, cells 1-, rarely 2-ovuled; styles or stigmas 1 to 4. Fruit 
globose to ovoid, fleshy, often large, frequently supported by the much en- 
larged calyx. Seeds oblong to ellipsoid, usually compressed. (ee “Zeus,” 
i. e. God, and “grain.’’) 
Species over 200, in the tropics of both hemispheres, few in some tem- 
perate countries, about 38 in the. Philippines. 
Leaves glabrous; fruit green, glabrous..................---.---s0---0-- 1. D. ebenaster 
Leaves softly pale-pubescent beneath; fruit brown, densely pubescent. 
2. D. discolor 
*1. D. EBENASTER Retz. Sapote negro (Sp.-Fil.). 
A glabrous tree 7 to 15 m high. Leaves oblong to elliptie-oblonig, 10 
to 20 cm long, obtuse. Flowers axillary, solitary, greenish-white, 1 to 1.5 
em long, the calyx-lobes broad. Fruit globose, smooth, green, becoming 
nearly black, edible, about 10 cm in diameter, the pulp very soft, brownish; 
seeds usually 4, about 2cmlong. (FI. Filip. pl. 372, D. nigra.) 
Rarely cultivated, flowering in March; of local occurrence in the Philip- 
pines. Introduced from Mexico at an early date, and apparently formerly 
much more common here than now. 
2. D. discolor Willd. Camagon, Mabolo (Tag.); Amaga (Vis.); Talang 
(Pamp.). 
A tree 8 to 15 m high. Leaves oblong, 10 to 25 cm long, coriaceous, 
acute or shortly acuminate, base usually rounded, the upper surface“green, 
shining, glabrous, the lower surface softly pubescent with appressed, pale 
hairs. Flowers 4-merous. Male flowers pubescent, in short-peduncled, con- 
gested, about 7-flowered cymes. Calyx about 1 cm long. Corolla slightly 
larger than the calyx, nearly white, the tube cylindric, slightly contracted 
above, the lobes nearly as long as the tube. Stamens about 24, the filaments 
united in pairs. Female flowers axillary, solitary, sessile, slightly larger 
than the males. Staminodes usually 4. Styles 4. Fruit large, globose, 
fleshy, up 10 cm in diameter, edible, densely covered with brown hairs. (FI. 
Filip. pl. 109.) 
Common, fl. Feb—Apr.; widely distributed in the Philippines, indigenous; 
cultivated in other tropical countries. 
112. OLEACEAE (OLIVE oR SAMPAGUITA FAMILY) 
Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, the leaves opposite, rarely alternate, 
pinnate, 3-foliolate, or reduced to a single leaflet with a usually jointed 
petiole. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, in cymes or panicles, or in 
reduced racemes or clusters. Flowers perfect, regular. Calyx free, usually 
4- or 5-toothed, teeth sometimes more numerous, or truncate. Corolla with 
a short or long tube, the lobes 4 to 9, spreading, sometimes free nearly 
or quite to the base. Stamens 2, included, attached to the corolla. Ovary 
