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rarely terminal cymes, the females usually larger and turning soli- 
tary by abortion of the lateral flowers. 
An order important to the forester on account of ebony-wood, 
the produce of several species of Diospyros. The fruits of a few are 
edible, but of an inferior quality, and those of a few others serve 
for dyeing black. All the Burmese species are trees. 
Calyx 4-parted to near the base; corolla 4-lobed; ovary-cells 
as many as corolla-lobes; male and female flowers all 
solitary ; * ee ; : : : : - Gunisanthus. 
Calyx 4-6 toothed or-lobed ; corolla-lobes 4 to 6; ovary-cells twice 
as many as lobes, with a solitary ovule in each cell; male 
owers clustered or cymose, the females solitary . . “ 
Calyx- and corolla-lobes 3; ovary-cells as many, with 2 ovules in 
each cell F F . . . ° ° ° ° ° 
iospyros. 
Maba. 
GUNISANTHUS, DC. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 4- or 5-parted, the lobes narrow; 
corolla funnel-shaped, the limb 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes spreading, 
sinistrorsely twisted in bud. Stamens in females wanting, in the 
males twice as many as corolla-lobes, in 2 series, the inner ones 
shorter and perigynous, with very unequal filaments, those of the 
outer series longer ; anthers with an acute or acuminate connective, 
opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary in males rudimentary, in the 
females 4- or 5-celled, the cells with a solitary ovule; style very 
short, 2-lobed. Berry rather dry, supported by the usually reflexed 
yx-lobes, 4- or 5- or by abortion fewer-celled. Seeds compressed- 
oblong, with a thin black testa.—Small usually hairy trees ; flowers 
im slender cymes. 
Not flowering branchlets sparingly pubescent, along with the 
leaves glabrescent ; calyx-tube doubly shorter than the 
corolla-lobes , ‘ ‘ i ‘ = ‘ F . - G, pilosulus, 
Not flowering branchlets densely villous ; leaves permanently softly 
pubescent beneath; calyx-tube a little shorter than the 
corolla-lobes . WE . ee : oe ee ae . 
1. G. pilosulus, DC.—An evergreen tree (15—25 + 8—10+1— 
13), all the younger parts appressed-pubescent from long soft hairs ; 
leaves variable, from obovate-oblong to elongate elliptically oblong 
and oval, on a 1-2 lin. long petiole, 1-2 in. or sometimes 3 to 4 in. 
long, bluntish acuminate or apiculate, chartaceous, entire, while 
young appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, the midrib beneath usually 
remaining’ pubescent ; flowers middling-sized, dull-orange or yellow 
side, softly appressed-pubescent outside, on 4 to 6 lin. long, 
Straight, pilose pedicels, arising from short pilose branchlets and 
often appearing racemose after the fall of the leaves ; calyx-lobes 
oblong-lanceolate, about 3 lin. long ; corolla-lobes twice as long as 
he short ovate tube ; berries (unripe) the size of a small cherry, 
globular, sparingly hispid, brown and dry. 
G. mollis. 
