128 EBENACER. | Diospyros. 
+ All _ except the very young shoots quite 
glabrous, Flowers ——— stile. 
Flowers rusty-tomentose ; re ee short, wit ute pes leaves 
stron nly net-veined; berries tawny- aiaentonts corolla 4. 
gonous in bud . D. lanceefolia. 
Male calyx peteiae nula to, with rounded short lobes, somsentones 
a strongly net-veined; berries rusty-tomentose ; corolla 
d - D. pyrrhocarpa. 
oulys a puberulous, with rounded lobes ; male cymes very 
and robust ; cach strongly net-veined ae om 
ae ?); corolla terete in bu . D. variegata. 
tt All pairs especially the leaves, more or less 
peer: nt or otherwise sth male flowers 
n cymes ; berries gla 
Leaves not cordate, softly pulennen beneath; alga “lobes and bracts 
acute ; flowers 4-merous D. stricta. 
Leaves not cordate, when full-grown almost t glabrous and charta- 
ceous; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate ; cymes branched, arising 
from the stem or older branches ; flowers 5-merous - . D, Brandisiana. 
— wear cordate base, softly pubescent ; calyx-lobes and bracts 
; cymes short, robust; flowers 4-merous . . . D. dasyphylia. 
i =~ toposia, Ham.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 144,—An evergreen 
tree, all parts glabrous ; leaves elliptically oblong to lanceolate, on a 
2-3 lin. long petiole, 3-6 in. long, bluntish acuminate, entire, 
chartaceous or almost coriaceous, glabrous, elegantly and densely 
et Besar yellow, 4-5 lin. long, almost globular in bud, on 
-2 n dicels, forming glabrous, robust, short- 
peduncled, Kb henieet crmes P in nee axils of the leaves, the hermits 
—— ones solitary ; bracts, if any, very deciduous 
calyx 
very coriaceous, deeply 4- ienaaicaly 3-cleft, the lobes oblong-ovial 
acute ; corolla ureeolate, with an oval tube, 4-lobe d, the lobes short, 
ovate, somewhat acute; stamens in the males from, 20-30, in 
hermaphrodites 12-16, the filaments very short; anthers linear, 
acute, glabrous; ovary in hermaphrodites conical, glabrous, 4-celled, 
with 4 short stigmas; berries globular, about an inch in diameter, 
smooth, up to 4-seeded, the calyx but little enlarged; albumen 
Soe ca 
Has. -Chibinaee 
2. D. embryopteris, Pers.; Bedd., Sylv. Madr., t. 49; Brand. 
For. Fl. 298.—An evergreen tree (4 0—60 + ?) all parts labrous, the 
leaf-buds tawny or yellowish pubescent; leaves linear- and ellipti- 
cally-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, on a . 2 in. long petiole, 5-7 i 
long, blunt or acuminate, entire, coriaceous, — = shining, 
the nerves and the lax net-veination conspicuous ; flowers middling- 
sized, yellowish white, 4-merous, on 2-3 lin. long thick pedicels, ke 
males in poor, drooping, somewhat velvety-tomentose cymes in 
“axils of the leaves, the hermaphrodites considerably larger and sal 
ry ; bracts small, very ear sey males: calyx very short and flat 
almost 4-angular-expanded, shortly sinuate-4-toothed, tawny-vel 
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