Diospyros. | EBENACEZ. 651 
§28. Diospyros Linn. 
Trees or rarely shrubs; leaves alternate or, rarely, subopposite, 
entire. Flowers diccious, very rarely polygamous, axillary and 
short-pedicelled or in small cymes, sometimes the males, often 
the females solitary ; usually 4—5-merous, rarely 3-merous. Sepals 
te i e 
in the female larger than in the male, and often accrescent and 
licate or auriculate in fruit. Petals connate in a shortly or 
deeply lobed tubular, aeciicueanties: or campanulate corolla ; 
lobes contorted to right in bud. 3 Stamens 4-64, o 16; fila- 
ments distinct, paired, or palpation; anthers linear, rarely 
short. Ovary rudimentary. Staminodes 0-16. Ovary 4-5- 
celled or imperfectly or Be "8-10. celled; cells usually 
1-ovuled, rarely 2-ovuled ; styles or stigmas 1-4. Fruit a globose, 
ellipsoid, or ovoid-conic berry, often supported by the enlarged 
and sometimes woody calyx; flesh often pulpy or viscid. Seeds 
oblong, usually compressed ; albumen equable or rarely ruminate. 
*Female flowers solitary or subsolitary ; ; if more than 2 together (D. ovali- 
i} 
Calyx irregularly, or if regularly, then, at least in the male flower, 
very shortly cleft; corolla urceolate, glabrous externally; stamens 
usually more than 24; male flowers in small cymes; mature leaves 
glabrous beneath :— 
Calyx in bud globular and closed, the lobes connate, but afterwards 
rupturing irregularly into 2~3-lobes ; corolla 5-lobed ; stamens about 
32, glabrous; ovary hairy, 4-(rarely 6-)celled ; stigmas sessile ; 
fruit ‘7-1 in. across, ellipsoid, villous, but at length glabra 
oposia. 
Calyx in bud not closed, in the male short, subtruncately 4-toothed, 
in the female large, deeply 4-lobed; corolla 4-lobed; stamens 24- 
64, pilose ; ovary glabrous, 8-celled; styles 4; fruit usually solitary, 
1-2 in. across, subglobose, glandular or rusty.........--- Embryopteris. 
Calyx regularly and deeply cleft, at least in the male flower, ge 
usually in the flowers of both sexes (angled only in female calyx o 
D. tomentosa); stamens usually fewer than 24 :— 
Corolla urceolate, glabrous or nearly so —* if pilose (D. 
Kaki) then only so on the lobes; calyx-lobes 4, ovate; fruit 
globose :—[p. 652 
tOvary glabrous ; fruit glabrous; stamens 16 :—{p. 652] 
Male flowers in small fascicles, subsessile ; corolla small, nearly 
