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2. Diospyros, Linn. 
Trees, rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate or rarely sub-opposite, 
entire. Flowers dioecious, very rarely polygamous, axillary and 
short-pedicelled, or in small cymes ; the 2 often, and the $ sometimes, 
solitary ; usually 4- or 5-merous, rarely 3-merous. Calyx usually 
deeply-lobed, rarely truncate, often in the 2 larger than in the $ 
and often accrescent and plicate or auriculate in fruit. Corolla tubular 
with short deep lobes, or salver-shaped, or campanulate ; the lobes 
contorted to the right in bud. Stamens in the $ flowers 4 to 64, often 
16 ; their filaments distinct, paired or polyadelphous ; anthers linear, 
rarely short ; ovary rudimentary. In the 2 flowers, staminodes 0 to 
16 ; ovary 4-5-celled or imperfectly 8-10-celled ; the cells usually with 
1, rarely with 2 ovules ; styles or stigmas 1 to 4. Fruit a globose, 
ellipsoid or ovoid-conic, berry, usually subtended by the enlarged 
(sometimes woody) calyx ; flesh pulpy or viscid. Seeds oblong, usually 
compressed ; albumen equable or (rarely) ruminate. — Distrib. About 
220 species, chiefly in the tropics. 
Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous or hairy ; 
S flowers in small cymes or fascicles, 4-5-merous ; stamens 
usually 8, 12, or 16 ; flowers sub-solitary ; ? calyx longer than 
that of the s , not accrescent or but slightly so, in fruit : — 
Leaves under 5 in. long : — 
Fruit globular, glabrous ; stamens 16 
Fruit cylindric or oblong-conical, glabrous ; stamens about 
16 ; leaves 1 to 1-4 in. long, and under -65 in. broad 
Fruit ellipsoid : — 
Stamens 8 : — 
Fruit puberulous : — - 
Leaves usually under 2 '25 in. long, lanceolate or 
sub-rhomboidal . . 
Leaves usually over 2-25 in. long, elliptic-oblong . . 
Fruit glabrous ; leaves 2-5 to 4-5 in. long 
Stamens 12 ; leaves 3'25 to 5 in. long ; fruit glabrous . . 
Fruit not known ; stamens 12 ; leaves under 2 in. long . . 
Leaves over 5 in. long ; fruit ovoid-conic, rusty-setose ; 
stamens 6 to 12 
Leaves coriaceous, upper surface glabrous and shining ; flowers 
mostly 4-merous, a few 5-merous ; $ flowers in small cymes or 
clusters ; calyx deeply lobed, often larger in the ? and differing 
in shape from that of the s : — 
Calyx 4-lobed : — 
Leaves under 5 in. long : — 
Leaves under 1'5 in. broad : — 
Calyx of ? flower densely sericeous-pubescent, lobes 
reniform ; fruit ovoid 'or sub-globose, rusty villous, 
its calyx 1 in. in diam. 
1. Z). Wrayi. 
3. D. microphylla. 
2. D. subrhomboidea. 
6. .D. Scortechiriii. 
5. D. graciliflora. 
7. D. flavicans. 
4. D. dumosa. 
8. D. ayiculata. 
9. D. lanceafolia. 
