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ME HIERN, ON EBENACE^E. 



DIOSPYROS. 



KEY TO THE SECTIONS AND SPECIES. 



Seeds with ruminated albumen ; leaves in some species opposite. I. MELONIA. 



Albumen of seeds not ruminated ; leaves always alternate. 



Ualyx truncate and entire or very shortly lobed ; stamens glabrous. II. EBENUS. 

 Calyx distinctly lobed, or stamens more or less hairy. 



Fruit conical ; ovary usually 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled. III. NOLTIA. 



Fruit globular, ovoid, obovoid or oblong ; ovary 4 16-celled, cells 1 2-ovuled. 

 Pedicels long or cymes lax; stamens 8 21. 



9 flowers solitary or on distinct peduncles. IV. GUNISANTHUS. 



? flowers cymose. V. GUAIACANA. 



Pedicels short or cymes dense, or stamens very numerous. 



Stamens all or half of them inserted about middle of corolla. VI. CuNALONlA. 

 Stamens inserted on the receptacle or at base of corolla. 



Corolla tubular, often salver-shaped ; stamens 432, when numerous usually 

 unequal. 



Stamens quite glabrous. VII. ERMELLINUS. 



Stamens more or less hairy. VIII. PATONIA. 



Corolla urceolate or campanulate ; stamens 8 22, usually unequal 

 Ovary 4 16-celled, cells 1-ovuled. 



Anthers dehiscing laterally by apical pores. IX. LEUCOXYLUM. 

 Anthers dehiscing laterally by longitudinal slits. 



Ovary glabrous (except apex). X. DANZLERIA. 



Ovary hairy. XI. PARALEA. 



Ovary 4-celled, cells 2-ovuled. XII. CARGILLIA. 



Corolla deeply lobed, subrotate ; stamens 15 50, subequal. XIII. Rospimos. 



Corolla egg-shaped or oblong, shortly lobed ; stamens nu- 

 merous, subequal. XIV. CAVANILLEA. 



Calyx closed with connate lobes in bud, afterwards bursting irregu- 

 larly. XV. AMUXIS. 



