85. EBENAOEM. [2. Diospyros. 



1. M. buxifolia, Pers. Goakuli, Guaktili, Gaiirkasa, Or.-, Angaru, Beng. 

 A twiggy much branched shrub or small tree with box-like leaves 

 •4-1" long, small Avhite flowers 'IS" long, the males usually in very 

 short cymes, the females 1-3 together. Berries -3" long, ellipsoid- 

 oblong, hairy above especially at base of style, sub-coriaceous sviccu- 

 lent, 1-seeded. 



Cuttack and Puri, usually in scrub jungles near the coast! Fl. March-April. 

 Fr. June-July. Evergreen. 



Young shoots pubescent. Leaves sometimes 1'3" long, round, oblong or obovate, 

 coriaceous with the few sec. u. scarcely stronger than the fine reticulation. Petiole 

 hardly any. Male fl. smaller than feinale, about 'Il-'IS" long only ; cal3^x cupular 

 3-4-lo'bed, minutely hairy, about half as long as the corolla ; corolla tubular, 

 strigosely hairy on the outside; stamens 3 (6-12, F.B.I., perhaps variable but 

 3-merous). Feiii. fl. with broader obtusely-lobed calj'x, and corolla "IT" long with 

 'S strigose lines or patches, lobes sub-orbicular, staminodes 0, ovary 3- celled, 

 style rather long with 3 minute lobes at apex. 



2. DIOSPYROS, L. 



Trees, rarely shrubs. Flowers green, white or yellowish, males 

 mostly in 3-more-flowered cymes, females usually solitary. Calyx 

 3-5-lobed but mostly 4-5-lobed, often nearly to the base, often 

 hardened in fruit. Corolla tubular, salver-shaped or campanulate with 

 usually as many lobes as calyx, twisted to the right. M. fl. with 8-64 

 stamens, often in pairs, pistillode present. F. fl. with 0-16 staminodes. 

 Ovary 4-16- usually 8-, very rarely 6- but never 3-celled. Ovule 1 

 in each cell. Styles short with often spreading or lobed stigmas. 

 Fruit usually showing marks of the suppressed cells, seeds oblong. 



The nervation is usually characteristic with alternate sec. n. and numerous often 

 nearly as strong intermediate nerves, all forked and usuallj- minutely reticulate. 

 Petioles always short. 



KEY. 



I. Indigenous species. Leaves mostlj^ under 9" long (except on coppice shoots 

 and sometimes Emhryopteris) . 



Male Plants. 



A. Flowers in peduncled cymes : — 



1. Stamens 12-16 :— 



a. Flower-buds with short calyx and conical twisted corolla : — 

 i. Calyx flat or saucer-shaped : — 



Bark dark, rugo.se. L. narrow 1-4" pubescent 1. conUfolia. 

 Bark light, smooth. L. ell. or ell. -ovate 2-6" . 2. montana. 

 ii. Calyx tubular, sometimes half as long as 

 corolla : — 

 Bark dark. L. oblong acuminate 4-7" . . 6, ebennm. 



b. Fl. buds ellipsoid or ovoid-oblong, calyx half as 



long as corolla or longer, tomentose . . .8. melavoxylon. 



c. Buds subglobose. St. 13-22. Corolla urceolate . 5. sylvatica. 



2. Stamens 18-22 or more :— 



Fl. buds globose. Cor. urceolate 'I-'IS" . . .5. sylvatica. 

 Fl. buds ovoid-oblong. Corolla "3" St. 20-64 . . 'i. emhryopteris. 



B. Flowers in sessile or subsessile cymes or clusters. 



Stamens 13-20: — 



L. 3-4*5" long. Corolla glabrous 4. oval i folia. 



L. 1-3-5". Corolla with hirsute broad lines . . . 7. chloroxylon. 



Female Plants. 



A. Flowers large, over "5" diameter : — 



1. Corollabroadly campanulate or urceolate with spread- 

 ing lobes, usually broader than long : — 



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