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2. DiosPYROS, Linn. 



Trees, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely sub-opposite, 

 entire. Floivers dioecious, very rarely polygamous, axillary and 

 short-pedicelled, or in small cymes ; the 2 often, and the <? sometimes, 

 solitary ; usually 4- or 5-merous, rarely 3-merous. Gahjx usually 

 deeply-lobed, rarely truncate, often in the $ larger than in the ^ 

 and often accrescent and plicate or auriculate in fruit. Corolla tubular 

 with short deep lobes, or salver-shaped, or campanulate ; the lobes 

 contorted to the right in bud. Stamens in the $• floivers 4 to 64, often 

 16 ; their filaments distinct, paired or polyadelphous ; anthers linear, 

 rarely short ; ovary rudimentary. In the 2 flowers, staminodes to 

 16 ; ovary 4-5-celled or imperfectly 8-10-celled ; the cells usually with 

 1, rarely with 2 ovules ; styles or stigmas 1 to 4. Fruit a globose, 

 ellipsoid or ovoid-conic, berry, usually subtended by the enlarged 

 (sometimes woody) calyx ; flesh pulpy or viscid. Seeds oblong, usually 

 compressed ; albumen equable or (rarely) ruminate. — Distrib. About 

 220 species, chiefly in the tropics. 



Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous or hairy ; 

 S flowers in small cymes or fascicles, 4-5-merous ; stamens 

 usually 8, 12, or 16 ; flowers sub-solitary ; $ calyx longer than 

 that of the i , not accrescent or but slightly so, in fruit : — 

 Leaves under 5 in. long : — 



Fruit globular, glabrous ; stamens 16 

 Fruit cylindric or oblong-conical, glabrous ; stamens about 

 16 ; leaves 1 to 1-4 in. long, and under -Qo in. broad 

 Fruit ellipsoid : — • 

 Stamens 8 : — 

 Fruit puberulous : — 

 Leaves usually under 2'25 in. long, lanceolate or 

 sub-rhomboidal . . 



Leaves usually over 2*25 in. long, elliptic-oblong 

 Fruit glabrous ; leaves 2-5 to 4-5 in. long 

 Stamens 12 ; leaves 3-25 to 5 in. long ; fruit glabrous 

 Fruit not known ; stamens 12 ; leaves under 2 in. long 

 Leaves over 5 in. long ; fruit ovoid-conic, rusty-setose ; 

 stamens 6 to 12 

 Leaves coriaceous, upper surface glabrous and shining ; flowers 

 mostly 4-merous, a few 5-merous ; <? flowers in small cymes or 

 clusters ; calyx deeply lobed, often larger in the ? and differing 

 in shape from that of the s : — 

 Calyx 4-lobed : — 

 Leaves under 5 in. long : — 

 Leaves under 1"5 in. broad : — 



Calyx of ? flower densely sericeous-pubescent, lobes 

 reniform ; fruit ovoid or sub-globose, rusty villous, 

 its calyx 1 in. in diam. 



1. D. Wrayi. 



3. D. micropliylla. 



2. D. subrlwmboidea. 



6. D. Scortechinii. 

 5. D. graciliflora. 



7. D. fiavicaus. 

 4. D. diimosa. 



8. D. apiculuta. 



9. D. lancecvfolia. 



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