144 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



wide ; pedicels very short ; calyx in. long, campanulate, pubescent on both sides, especially 

 inside, 5 6-fid, lobes deltoid ; corolla (not expanded) glabrous except 5 6 pubescent lines 

 in lower part, 5 6-partite ; lobes elliptical, probably spreading in full flower ; staminodes 

 25 30, very small, subequal, inserted in one row at base of corolla, nearly glabrous; ovary 

 densely rufous-pilose, subglobose, flattish at top, 6-celled, 6-ovuled, surmounted by 3 erect 

 contiguous styles which are pubescent at base and acutely bilobed at apex. 

 S. America, French Guiana, Maroni, Mellinon! 



IV. DIOSPYROS, Dalech. Hist. Lib. in. cap. xxi. p. 349 (1587). 



Flares diced, rarius monceci vel polygami, 3 7-, scepius 4 5-meri, cyrnosi. Calyx lobatus 

 vel rarius truncatus, in fructu scepe accrescens. Corolla lobata; lobis obtusis vel rarius acutis, 

 in prceftoratione sinistrorse contortis. 



FLOS MASCULUS: stamina 4 oo, scepius circiter 16 et biserialibus ; ovarium plerumque 

 abortivum. 



FLOS FEMINEUS : staminodia scepius 4 8, interdwn ; ovarium 4 16-, rarissime 6-, 

 nunquam 3-loculare. 



Arbores vel frutices, foliis alternis vel rarius suboppositis nunquam verticillatis, cymis 

 axillaribus vel rarius secus ramos vetustiores lateralibus, iaterdum unifloris. 



Linn. Gen. Plant, pp. 143, 383. n. 403 (1737), Alph. DC. Prodr. p. 222. n. VI. (1844), 

 Agardh. Theor. Syst. Plant, t. X. figs. 11, 12 (1858). Cfr. Cesalp. De Plantis, lib. II. cap. LII. 

 p. 86 (1583). 



Ermellinus, Cesalp. De Plantis, lib. ill. cap. XXI. p. 104 (1583). 

 Pseudolotus, Gamer. Epit. p. 156 (1586). 

 Lotus (sp.), Gamer. Epit. p. 157 (1586), non Linn. 

 LIGNUM VITJ3, Gerarde Herball, p. 1309 (1597), non auct. al. 

 Guaiacum (sp.), Gerarde Herball, p. 1310 (1597). 

 Pishamin, Parkins. Theatr. Bot. p. 1523. f. 4 (1640). 

 Guaiacana, Tourn. Inst. rei Herb. p. 600. t. 371 (1700). 

 Ficus (sp.), Ksempf. Amoenit. Exot. p. 805 (1712). 

 Hebenaster, Rumph. vol. III. (lib. iv.) p. 15. t. 6 (1750). 

 Paralea, Aubl. Plant. Guin. vol. I. p. 576. t. 231 (1775). 

 Dactylus, Forsk. Fl. Mgypt. Arab. p. xxxvi. n. 481 (1775). 



Embryopteris, Gaertn. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum, vol. I. p. 145. t. 29 (1788). 

 Ebenus, Commers. ex Jussieu Gen. PI. p. 156 (1789), non Linn. 

 Cavanillea, Desrouss. in Encycl. Me"th. in. p. 663 (1789), non auct. al. 

 Garcinia (sp.), Desrouss. in Encycl. Me"th. in. p. 701 (1789), non Linn. 

 (?) Euclea (sp.), Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 629 (1790). 



Annona (sp.), Jacq. Fragm. Bot. p. 40. t. 44. f. 7 (18009). 

 Cargillia, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 526 (1810). 

 Monodora (sp.), Dunal, Monogr. Anon. p. 80 (1817). 

 Leucoxylum, Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. p. 1169 (1826). 

 Noltia, Schum. Plant. Guin. p. 189 (1827). 



