518 Lxxxi. EBENACEiE (hiern). [Diospyros. 



AXhnmon of the seeds uniform. 

 Calyx very shortly lobed. 



Leaves whitish beneath, firmly coriaceous ■ 4. Z>. hatocana. 



Leaves membranous, not whitish beneath 6. 2). senensis. 



Calyx cleft or partite. 



Fruit conical. Corolla-lobes acute. 



Ovary silky. Leaves obtuse not cordate at the base 6. D. tricolor. 

 Ovary glabrous except the apex. Leaves cordate at 



the base 7. D. Barteri. 



Fruit globose. Corolla-lobes obtuse. 



Flowers on recurved peduncles or in comparatively 

 lax cymes. 

 Female flowers solitary. Staminodes . . . . S. D. squarrosa. 



Flowers cymose. Staminodes 8 9. 2?. Loureiriana. 



Flowers clustered subsessile or in very abbreviated 

 cymes. 

 Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla . 10. 2>. Bendo. 

 Stamens inserted at the base of tlie corolla or hy- 

 pogynous. 

 Corolla tubular, shortly lobed at the apex. Sta- 

 mens 9-15, unequal. 

 Filaments glabrous. Leaves velvety-puberu- 



lous beneath 11. D. Kir Hi. 



Filaments pubescent. Leaves with scattered 



hairs beneath 12. i). Heudelotii. 



Corolla subrotate. Stamens 15-17, nearly equal \Z. D. Mannii, 

 Corolla egg-shaped. Stamens very numerous, 



subequal 14. 2). crassiflora. 



1. I>. mespilifonnls, Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sect. ii. nn. 

 665, 1243. A shrub or tree, 6-40 ft. high or more ; wood compact, 

 often black in the middle ; branches terete, more or less patent, gla- 

 brescent; young shoots and inflorescence ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves 

 oblong or elliptical, somewhat narrowed or rounded at each end, thinly 

 coriaceous (the young ones softly pubescent and membranous) gla- 

 brescent or with appressed hairs beneath, rather shining, 2-6 by 

 |-2^ in. ; midrib depressed above ; lateral and net- veins delicate ; 

 margins just recurved ; petiole ^— ^ in. Flowers white, dicecious ; 

 inflorescence axillary, short. Male flowers few or many together, fer- 

 ruginous-tomentose, I in. long, pentamerous or occasionally tetramer- 

 ous ; bracteoles lanceolate, small ; calyx cleft, J in. long, campanulate 

 or carapanulate-oblong, hairy on both sides, lobes ovate or lanceolate ; 

 corolla urceolate-oblong, shortly cleft, silky outside, glabrous inside, 

 lobes spreading, pointed ; stamens 10-16, often in pairs, nearly gla- 

 brous but with a narrow line of light-coloured hairs on the back of the 

 anthers, inserted at the base of the corolla, filaments short, connective 

 produced at the apex, pollen broadly ellipsoidal, smooth ; ovary rudi- 

 mentary, hairy or wanting. Female flowers solitary or 3-1 together, 

 pentamerous or tetramerous or rarely trimerous ; . peduncles J-f in. 

 long ; bracts narrow, caducous ; calyx hairy on both sides, campanu- 

 late, deeply-lobed, lobes ovate acuminate with wavy margins ; corolla 

 shortly lobed, lobes pointed ; staminodes 6-8, in one row, inserted at 

 the base of the corolla, glabrous ; ovary ovoid or conical, silky, termi- 

 nated by 2 short hirsute bilobed styles, 4- or 8-celled and -ovuled. 



