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and southward," Asa Gray; "Florida! to Mississippi and northward," Chapman; Cumberland, 

 Olney!; Missouri, Buckley!; Virginia, Portsmouth, RugeU, A. Gray!; Kansas, Engelmann. 

 It is cultivated in British Guiana, and has long been introduced into Europe. 



102. DIOSPYROS KAKI, Linn. fiL Suppl. p. 439 (1781). 



D. foliis alternis, ovalibus, utrinque obtusis vel angustatis, siibmembranaceis, subtus 

 pubescentibus, petiolatis ; floribus masculis axillaribus, ternis, cymosis, tetrameris, urceolatis, 

 calyce campanulato, lobis ovatis vel lanceolatis, corolld extus pubescente, staminibus scepius 16, 

 geminatis, leviter pubescentibus ; floribus femineis scepius solitariis, pedunculatis, staminodiis 

 scepius 8, ovario scepius 8-loculari, fructibus globosis edulibus scepe magnis. 



Wight Ic. t. 415 (1840) ; Alph. DO. Prodr. vm. p. 229. n. 30 excl. var. y. glabra 

 (1844) ; Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 157 excl. var. /3. (1784) ; non Blanco. 



Ficus hortensis, fructu ossiculato eduli, folio Pyri, Ksempf. Amoenit. exotic, p. 805 (1712). 



(?) D. lobata, Lour. Flor. Cochinch. p. 227 (1790); Alph. DC. I.e. p. 233. n. 53. 



D. chinensis, Blume, Catal. Buitenz. p. 110 (1823); Flora, 1825, p. 254; Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 

 p. 670 (1825). 



D. Schi-Tse, Bunge, Enum. PL Chin. Bor. n. 237. p. 42 (1832). 



Embryopteris Kaki, G. Don, Gen. Diet. Gard. and Bot. iv. p. 41 (1837). 



D. costata, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1870, p. 134 (fig. p. 133). 



D. Kaki var. costata, Andre in L' Illustration Hortic. vol. xviil. p. 176. t. 78 (1871). 



D. Roxburghi, Carriere in Revue horticole, 1872, p. 253. fig. 28, 29. 



Local names ; Ono Kaki, Kaempfer Amcenit. pp. 805, 807. fig. p. 806 (1712) ; Kakwe, Javan 

 name ex Bl. Bijdr. I.e.; Khi, Rumph. Herb. Amboin. vol. I. p. 137 (1750). 



A small tree ; young branches inflorescence and underside of leaves pubescent or sub- 

 tomentose. Leaves alternate, submembranous, more or less oval and acuminate at apex, paler 

 beneath, 2 7 in. long by 1 3J in. wide ; petioles \ | in. long. Flowers pedunculate, dioecious 

 or polygamous, tetramerous. 



<J. Cymes axillary \ Jin. long, 3-flowered; pedicels about -^ in. long; flowers usually 

 drooping, variable in size, \ f in. long ; calyx slightly hairy, with 4 deep ovate or lanceolate 

 lax lobes, shorter than the corolla ; corolla hairy outside, urceolate, yellowish- white ; stamens 

 16 (14 24), in pairs, more or less hairy, filaments short. 



9. Flowers usually solitary, or pubescent, axillary; 2-bracteate peduncles^ | in. long, 

 dilated and articulated to fruit at apex ; calyx large, hairy on both sides, deeply 4-fid, about 

 1 in. or more wide, with widely ovate spreading lobes, cordate at the base, much accrescent in 

 fruit at least in most cases, with a thickened and hairy shallow tube in fruit; corolla pu- 

 berulous, about \ \ in. high and wide, 4-fid, with -oval recurved lobes; staminodes 8 (or 16?); 

 ovary 8 10-celled, glabrous or nearly so ; style hairy, 4-fid ; fruit glabrous or nearly so, glo- 

 bular, sometimes as big as an orange, reddish or yellow, 8 10-celled [? in D. lobata, Lour. 1 in. 

 in diameter and lobed], in D. costata, Carr. 2 in. in diameter and more or less deeply ribbed 

 or lobed. The Chinese preserve the fruits with sugar. 



This species has been for a long time under cultivation in China, Japan, &c. and presents 

 much variety in the size and shape of its fruit. By the kindness of M. Carriere I have been 



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