SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
DIOSPY ROS. 
FLOWERS dicecious or rarely polygamous; calyx usually 4-lobed, accrescent under 
the fruit; corolla gamopetalous, usually 4-lobed, the lobes sinistrorsely contorted or 
rarely irregularly imbricated in estivation ; stamens usually 16; disk 0; ovary supe- 
rior, 4 or rarely 8-celled; ovules suspended. Fruit baccate, juicy, 1 to 10-seeded. 
Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, entire, destitute of stipules. 
Cargillia, R. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 526 (1810). — 
Meisner, Gen. 250. — Endlicher, Gen. 742. 
Leucoxylum, Blume, Biydr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1169 (1826). — 
Meisner, Gen. 250. 
Noltia, Schumacher, Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. iii. 189 
Diospyros, Linnzus, Gen. 143 (1737). — Adanson, Fam. 
Pil. ii. 165.— A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 156. — Meisner, 
Gen. 250. — Endlicher, Gen. 742. — Bentham & Hooker, 
Gen. ii. 665. — Girke, Engler & Prantl Pflanzenfam. 
iv. pt. i. 161. — Baillon, Hist. Pl. xi. 227. 
Paralea, Aublet, Pl. Guian. i. 576 (1775). — Meisner, Gen. 
250. 
Dactylus, Forsk4l, Fl. Zgypt.-Arab. p. xxxvi. (1775). 
Hmbryopteris, Gertner, Fruct. i. 145 (1788). 
Cavanillea, Desrousseaux, Lam. Dict. iii. 663 (1789). 
(Guian. Pl.) (1828). — Meisner, Gen. 158. — Endlicher, 
Gen. 1330. 
Mabola, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 11 (1838). 
Persimon, Rafinesque, Sylva Tellur. 164 (1838). 
Gunisanthus, A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 219 (1844). 
Rospidios, A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 220 (1844). 
Trees or shrubs, with terete branchlets, scaly buds, hard heavy dark heartwood, and fibrous roots. 
Leaves alternate or rarely subopposite, entire, deciduous or persistent, destitute of stipules. Flowers 
articulate with the bibracteolate pedicels, in short few or many-flowered bracted cymes, or solitary 
from the axils of leaves of the year, or lateral on older branches. Calyx three to seven, usually four- 
lobed, rarely truncate or slightly divided at the apex, generally pubescent on the outer surface, closed 
or open in the bud, accrescent under the fruit. Corolla urceolate, campanulate, tubular, or salver- 
formed, more or less contracted in the throat, three to seven, usually four-lobed, the lobes spreading or 
recurved, rarely erect, obtuse, or occasionally acute. Sterile flowers smaller than the fertile, usually 
cymose. Stamens varying from four to an indefinite number, usually about sixteen, inserted on the 
bottom of the corolla, or hypogynous ; filaments slender, sometimes nearly obsolete, rarely geniculate, 
glabrous or hairy, free or connate at the base, often anteposed in pairs, the interior then usually shorter 
than the exterior; anthers oblong, linear, or lanceolate, often apiculate by the prolongation of the 
connective, introrse, two-celled, the cells opening laterally by longitudinal slits or rarely by apical 
pores; pollen ellipsoidal or globose. Ovary rudimentary or wanting. Fertile flowers often solitary. 
Stamens rudimentary or sometimes more or less polliniferous, usually less numerous than those of the 
sterile flower, sometimes wanting. Ovary conical or globose, hirsute or glabrous, usually four or some- 
