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Plumbaginaceae; Ebenaceae 



petals distinct or united only at base; stamens inserted at base of petals; styles usually free; fruit enclosed in the calyx, indehis- 

 cent or variously dehiscent, the endosperm scanty or copious. About 120 species, chiefly of deserts, seashores, and high moun- 

 tains of the N. Hemisphere, few in Australia, and S. Africa. 



lA. Herbaceous biennial; leaves radical, 8-15 cnn. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide; scapes 20-50 cm. long; corolla yellow 1. L. tetragonum 



IB. Shrubby perennial; leaves fascicled and terminal on the branches, 2-4 cm. long, 4-7 mm. wide; scapes 7-15 cm. long; corolla pinkish. 



2. L. wrightii 



1. Limonium tetragonum (Thunb.) Bullock. Statice 

 tetragona Thunb.; S. japonica Sieb. & Zucc; L. japonicum 

 (Sieb. & Zucc.) O. Kuntze Hama-saji. Glabrous bi- 



ennial; leaves radical, rather thick and firm, rosulate, oblong- 

 spathulate, 8-15 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, obtuse, mucronate, 

 entire, 3-nerved with very weak veinlets; scapes few, erect, 

 20-50 cm. long, much branched from the base, the bracts nar- 

 rowly deltoid, acute, 2-3 mm. long; inflorescence spicate, 2-4 

 cm. long, the bracts scarious-margined, rounded, cuspidate, 

 about 4 mm. long; flowers few, axillary, the bracteoles 2, small, 

 scarious; calyx 5-6 mm. long, pink in upper part, with short 

 appressed white hairs on back, 5-ribbed, the ribs cuspidate; 

 corolla yellow, slightly longer than the calyx; fruit fusiform, 

 2.5 mm. long. Sept.-Nov. Sandy places near the sea; Hon- 



shu (Rikuchu Prov. and southw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ko- 

 rea and Manchuria. 



2. Limonium wrightii (Hance) O. Kuntze. Iso-matsu, 

 MuRASAKi-iso-MATSu. Glabrous shrubby perennial 5-10 cm. 

 high, much branched; leaves fascicled and terminal on the 

 branches, thick-coriaceous, oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 4-7 mm. 

 wide, rounded at apex, clasping at the base, entire, the nerves 

 and midrib obscure; scapes terminal on the branches, 7-15 cm. 

 long; inflorescence spicate, 1-2 cm. long, one-sided, the bracts 

 scarious-margined, rounded at apex, about 5 mm. long; corolla 

 pinkish; calyx about 5 mm. long, with 5 appressed-pilose ribs. 

 Aug.-Oct. Rocks along the sea; Honshu (Izu Isls.), Kyu- 

 shu (Yakushima). A yellow-flowered variety, var. luteum 

 (Hara) Hara occurs in the Bonins, Ryukyus, and Formosa. 



Fam. 163. EBENACEAE Kaki-no-ki Ka Ebony Family 



Usually dioecious shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, simple, entire, exstipulate; calyx 3- to 6-lobed, persistent, often accrescent 

 after anthesis; corolla 3- to 6-lobed; stamens inserted at base of corolla, 2-4 times as many or rarely as many as the corolla- 

 lobes and alternate with them (staminodia usually present in pistillate flowers), the filaments free or connate into pairs, the 

 anthers 2-locular, introrse, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary superior, with 3 or more locules; styles often free; ovules 1-2 in each 

 locule, pendulous and anatropous; fruit a berry; seeds with a thin pericarp, the embryo straight, about half as long as the 

 endosperm. About 6 genera, with about 300 species, in the Tropics and subtropics of both hemispheres. 



1. DIOSPYROS L. Kaki-no-ki Zoku 



Dioecious shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, periolate; inflorescence axillary, produced on the new growth, sometimes 1-flowered; 

 flowers polygamous; calyx 3- to 7-lobed, hairy, accrescent after anthesis; corolla urceolate, tubular, campanulate or rotate, more 

 or less pubescent externally, 3- to 7-lobed, the lobes contorted in bud; fertile stamens 4 to many, commonly 16, inserted at 

 the base of the tube, the filaments shorter than the anthers, free or variously connate; staminodia in pistillate flowers much-re- 

 duced; ovary globose or conical-globose, the locules either twice as many as the styles and 1-ovuled, or as many as the styles and 

 2-ovuled; styles 1-4, often connate at base, rarely obscure; fruit globose or ovoid, fleshy; seeds oblong, lustrous, somewhat laterally 

 compressed. About 200 species, mainly tropical, a few temperate. 



lA. Leaves evergreen; young branchlets grayish puberulent; calyx-lobes not reflexed \. D. morrisiana 



IB. Leaves deciduous; young branchlets glabrous or brownish pilose; calyx-lobes reflexed. 



2A. Young branchlets glabrous or glabrescent; leaves lustrous on upper side, often whitish beneath; corolla glabrous outside; fruit 

 L5-2 cm. across. 



3A. Young branches short-pubescent; petioles 8-12 mm. long 2. D. lotus 



3B. Young branches glabrous; petioles 1-2 cm. long 3. D. japonica 



2B. Young branchlets brownish pilose; leaves scarcely lustrous on upper side, pale green beneath; corolla pubescent especially on out- 

 side of lobes; fruit 4-8 cm. across 4. £). \al{i 



1. Diospyros morrisiana Hance. D. nipponica Nakai puberulent while very young; leaves eUiptic, oblong, or ovate- 



ToKiwAGAKi. Evergreen small tree or large shrub; elliptic, 6-12 cm. long, 5-7 cm. wide, abruptly acute, entire, 



branches lenticellate, the branchlets grayish puberulent; leaves soft-pubescent while very young, glaucous and grayish white- 

 coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to oblong, 6-9 cm. long, 2-3.5 pubescent especially on nerves beneath, the petioles 8-12 mm. 

 cm. wide, short-acuminate with an obtuse tip, acuminate at long; flowers pale yellow, axillary; calyx-lobes short-pilose out- 

 base, glabrous, deep green on upper side, brownish appressed- side while young, regularly pilose inside; corolla campanulate; 



hairy beneath while very young, entire; flowers short-pedi- fruit globose, about 1.5 cm. across. June. Frequently culti- 



celled, pale yellow; calyx-lobes deltoid, brownish pilose; corolla vated in our area. Korea and China to Asia Minor. 



campanulate, 7-8 mm. long, glabrous outside; ovary glabrous; 3. Diospyros japonica Sieb. & Zucc. D. lotus var. 



fruit globose, 1.5-2 cm. across. June. Honshu (Izu Prov. glabra (DC.) Makino; D. \a\i var. glabra A. DC; D. lotus 



and westw. through Tokaido and Kii Prov. to Chiigoku var. japonica (Sieb. & Zucc.) Franch. Shinanogaki. 



Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, and s. China. Branches glabrous; leaves glabrous or nearly so, the petioles 



2. Diospyros lotus L. Mamegaki. Deciduous tree; 1-2 cm. long. June. Honshu (Izu Prov. and westw.), 



branches grayish, the branchlets short-appressed yellow-gray Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and China. 



