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GENERA 
1. Diospyros L.— Flores polygamo-diœci ; receptaculo convexius- 
culo. Sepala 3-8, libera v. plus minus alte connata, sub fructu 
accrescentia, imbricata v. reduplicata ; calice nunc truncato v. inæ- 
qui-rupto. Corolla campanulata, urceolata, hypocraterimorpha v. 
tubulosa, nunc extus pubescens ; lobis 3-8, tortis v. raro imbricatis. 
Stamina 4-20 (in flore fæmineo sterilia v. minuta), imæ corollæ affixa 
v. subhypogyna; filamentis liberis v. varie connatis, nunc superpo- 
sitis; antheris lineari-lanceolatis, lateraliter 2-rimosis v. ad apicem 
subporicidis. Germen sessile (in flore masculo rudimentarium v. 0) 
glabrum v. vilosum; stylis v. styli ramis 1-4, nunc in massam stigma- 
tosam subsessilem connatis; germinis loculis stylorum numero 
æqualibus, 2-ovulatis et plerumque 2-locellatis. Ovula descendentia ; 
micropyle introrsum supera. Fructus calyce stipatus, forma varius, 
Sæpius pulposus. Semina descendentia nitida; albumine æquabili v. 
ruminato; embryonis inversi radicula cylindracea supera; cotyledo- 
nibus sæpius foliaceis acutis nervatis. — Arbores v. frutices ; foliis 
allernis v. suboppositis ; floribus in cymas axillares v. secus ramos 
laterales dispositis, nunc raro solitariis. (Orbis utriusque reg. calid. et 
temp.) — Vid. p. 221. 
2? Royena L.' — Flores fere Diospyri; calycis dentibus v. lobis5, 
valvatis. Corolle campanulatæ v. urceolatæ lobi sæpius 5, torti. Sta- 
mina 10, v. rarius 8-15, imæ corollæ affixa ; filamentis brevissimis 
erectis; antheris lineari-lanceolatis sub-4-gonis, superne sæpius 
hirsutis, 2-rimosis (in flore fœmineo effætis). Germen hirsutum, basi 
1. n. 555. , Gen., 156. — GÆRTN.,  VILI, 210. — Enpz., Gen., n.4251.—H. BN, in 
Früet.. a Poin., or VI, 320; ni 2 Per! . nat., 258. — HiER\, Mon. _Ebe- 
IV, 12. — LAMK, I, t. 370. — DC., Prodr. ass; H., Gen., LI, 663, n 
