EBENACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



DIOSPYROS L. 



Diospyros Lotus Linnaeus, Spec. 1057 (1753). — Pallas, Fl. Ross. 

 IL 20,t.58 (exclud. fig. H.),t. 59, fig.a,b,c (1788). — Loiseleur in Nouv. 

 Duhamel, VL 83, t. 26 (1813?). — Hance in Joiir. Linn. Soc. XIII. 

 (1873). — Hiern in Trans. Camh. Phil. Soc. XII. pt. 1, 223 (Monog. 

 Ehen.) (1873). — Brandis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 297, t. 36 (1874); Ind. 

 Trees, 432 (1906). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 306 

 (1875). — Bretschneider, Early Europ. Research. Fl. China, 128 

 (1881). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 70 (1889). — Diels in 

 Engler, Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 527 (1900). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. 

 Jap. I. 123, t. 79 (1900). — Meyer in Bidl. U. S. Dept. Agric. 

 Bur. PI. Indust. CCIV. 15, fig. 5, 6 {Agric. Explor. Orchards China) 

 (1911). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bidl. Misc. hiform. add. ser. X. 

 161 (Fl. Kwangtung. & Hongk.) (1912). — Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. 

 II. pt. 2, 484 (1912). — Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 145 (1914). 



Dactylus trapezuntinus Forskal, Fl. Aegypl.-Arab. XXXVI. (1775). 

 Diospyros Kaki, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 1.5S (1784). 

 Diospyros Kaki, glabra A. De Candolle, Prodr. VIII. 229 (1844). 

 Diospyros microcarpa Siebold in Ann. Soc. Hort. Pays-Bas, 1844, 28 (non 



Spanhoge). 

 Diospyros japonica Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. 3, 136 



{Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 12) (1846). 

 Diospyros Undovok Griffith, I tin. Not. 355, No. 137 (1848). 

 Diospyros Pseudo-Lotus Naudin in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s^r. 2, III. 220 



(1880). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woodlands, alt. 600- 

 1500 m., May and October 1907 (No. 441; tree 8-20 m. tall, 0.3-2 ra. 

 girth, fruit yellow); Changlo Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-1300 m., 

 May and November 1907 (No. 621 ; tree 6-13 m. tall, 0.3-1.5 m. girth) ; 

 Nanto and mountains to northward, A. Henry (No. 3014); without 

 locality, A. Henry (Nos. 1914, 5820% 6235). Eastern Szech'uan: 

 Wushan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-1300 m., June and October 1907 

 (No. 429'*; tree 5-16 m. tall, 0.3-2 m. girth); same locality, A. Henry 



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