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D. Kaempferi as new species. Not having access to Naudin’s 
types at the present time I have not attempted a collation of the 
whole of his species 
e most important of the results of my investigations are me 
specific differences and native countries of D. Kaki and 
concerned in the parentage of any of the cultivated, edible 
persimmons is uncertain. I have found no reliable data. Clarke 
states that the natives of the Naga Hills “ can eat the fruit.” No 
other collector refers to D. Rastacghit as having an edible fruit ; 
yet nearly all the specimens are named D. Kaki. These ae are 
readily distinguished by their oe as described below 
Diospyros Kaki, Linn. f.; inter species sino-japonicas floribus 
magnis ob folia tenuia saepius lata ampla facile distingut 
hina. Flora Pckinensis: without locality, Bretschneider, 487, 
489 ; without locality, Everard, comm. Rev. T. Preston ; without 
locality, Thunberg in British Museum Herbarium; D. Kaki and 
D. Lotus, intermixed. Drawing of the same at Kew 
Japan. okoham, culta et sponte, Mazimowicz, 1862 ; ; without 
locality, C. Wri ight; Nagasaki, wild and cultivated, R. Oldham, 
528, 638; Tsu-sima ‘Islands, Straits of Corea, C. Wilford, 756. 
Cultivated in India. In the Raja’s Garden at Panukka, Bhotan, 
“a Bee in British Museum Herbarium. Drawing of the same 
ane in Europe. There are two specimens at Kew from 
the Paris Herbarium, cultivated in the Jardin des Plantes, and 
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1875, communicated by Prof. Dyer the same year, and D. Schitze, 
Bunge [syn.] D. Kak, Carr. Rev. Hort. 1869; 0. costata, Carr. 
H. Par. seminar. 1870; received direct frorn Decaisne, Novr., 
1870. Hort. Kew, 1906, the specimen figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 8127. 
Besides the foregoing specimens, which undoubtedly belong to 
D, Kaki, there are others at Kew, collected in Central China by 
A. Henry and referred by me (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 69) to 
D. Kaki, which are not typical D. Kaki and possibly not the same 
species. These are numbered 1560, 1962, 3567 and 3861; and, in 
a note to 1962 and 3861, Henry states that they are ‘the 
Yu-shih-tzu, or oil Persimmon, of the Chinese. 
SynonyMy AND CoLourED Figures oF NAMED VARIETIES 
or Drosprros Kax1, Linn. f., Supplement, 1781, p. 439. 
Diospyros Aurantium, André in Rev. Hort. 1887, p. 348, with a 
coloured figure 
Diospyros Bertii, André loc. cit., with a coloured figure. 
Diospyros a Blume, Cat. Pl. Hort. Buitenz. 1823, p. 110, 
and Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1825, p. 670, where he reduces it to 
D. Kaki; Naud. in Nouv. Arch. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Par. ser. 2, 
vol. iui, 1880, p. 221 (by error sinensis) t. 9, and in Soc 
d’Acclim, de France, 1881, ser. 3, vol. viii, pp. 397-400, 
