286 LXXTl. EBENACE.^. 



bevry, usually indeliiscent. Seeds few, albuminous; radicle superior; coly- 

 ledons foliaceous. — Trees or s]irubs, tlie juice uot milky. Leaves alternate, 

 entire, without stipules. Flowers axillary, tlie females often solitaiy, the 

 males usually clustered or in small cymes. 



The Order, a small one, is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New 

 as well as the Old World, extending northward to tlie United States aud to the Caaca?n?, 

 aud southward to the Cape of Good Hope. Of the three Australian genera, oue^ the prin- 

 cipal one of the Order, extends over its whole area, another is limited to the OldlAoriil, 

 the third is either endemic or extends only to the Indian Archipelago. Many of the species 

 here described mny require future revision, for the specimens seen, even when very nume- 

 rous, are usually either males in flower or females in fruit. The female tiowers, usually 

 solitary in the axils, aud therefore much less conspicuous than the males, are rarely gathered 

 hy collectors. 



Calyx- and corolla-lobes 4 to 6 each. Ovary-cells usually twice as many, 



with 1 ovule in each 1. Diospyros. 



Calyx- aud corolla-lobes 4 or 5 each. Ovary-cells the same number, with 



2 ovules in each . 2. Cargillia. 



Calyx-lobes, corolla-lobes, aud ovary-cells 3 each, with 2 ovules in each cell 3. ilABA. 



1. DIOSPYROS3 Linn. 



Calyx-lobes usually 4, sometimes 5 or 6. Corolla-lobes as many. Ovary 

 with usually twice as many cells as calyx- and corolla-lobes, with 1 oviilein 

 each cell (2 ovules to each carpel separated by spurious but complete dissepi- 

 ments). Styles usually 4, more or less connate at the base aud bifid at the 

 summit. Fruit globular or ovoid.— Trees or shrubs, with the habit and in- 

 florescence of the Order. 



Leaves pubescent, at least underneath. Fruit glabrous 1- -^- cordifohn. 



Leaves glabrous. Truit more or less hairy 2.-0. hehecarfO. 



1. D. cordifolia, Roxh. PL Corom. i. 38. L 50. A tree (the trunl 

 and older branches bearing prickles), the young branches and foliage softly 

 pubescent. Leaves petiolate, ovate oval-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acuminate, cordate round or narrowed at the'^base, at first thin and soft, at 

 length more coriaceous, with the veins impressed on the upper side, 1 to 

 2 m. long. Male flowers usually 3 together on short recurved pedicels, th 

 females solitary. Calyx-lobes 4, ovate, obtuse, ciliate, about 1 hue long- 

 Corolla urceolate, nearly 3 lines long, glabrous; lobes 4, shorter ^'^a*^ J 

 tube. Stamens in the males about 16, inserted in pairs at the bottom oftD 

 corolla, the filaments very short, the outer anthers longer than the inner ona. 

 Fruit globular, glabrous, about \ in. diameter or rather more, restnig on tQ 



calvx. whinh TO flo*- ^iwA^u ,^^1 ,1 i 1 i t T\n T),./-,i-l viu. *; 



. ^.^"^jiuu.a, aijuut 3 lu. uiameier or ruLucr uiuic, av.^«— n. a. 



calyx, which is flat, with enlarged recurved lobes.— A. DC. Prod, viu- -''V,' 

 ^\ ight, 111. 1. 148 ; JD. rugosula, E. Br. Prod. 526 ; B. riigidosa, A. PC Troo. 

 viu. 229 ; B. punctata, Dene. Herb. Tim. 79 ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 230. _ 



H. Australia Victoria riyer, F. Mueller. Also in Timon aud E. India. Our sp«>J 

 meus agree perfectly well with Roxburgh's as well as with those we have frof Tim«^ ^_ 

 not qmte so well with Roxburgh's figure. The leaves are rarely truly cordate, notwit» 



standing the name. 



2. D. hebecarpa, A. Cunn. A tree of 25 ft., the adult foliage f^ 

 brandies quite glabrous. Leaves from broadly ovate to oval-oblong, ve^ 

 obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, reticulate, not very conaceou , 



