8b WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
oocarpa; in D. Toposia the calyx of the male flower is closed 
in the bnd, and bursts irregularly into two or more segments 
when the flower opens. The calyx segments are most 
strongly marked in D. Embryopteris, D. Ebenum, D. Gard¬ 
ner^ &c^ but in many of the species belonging to this class 
the conspicuousness of the calyx segments becomes reduced 
dunng the development of the fruit. 
The calyces of the female and hermaphrodite flowers can 
m e into several classes, the first comprising those 
which even after f rniting remain small, thin, and horizontal, 
in . prnnens, D. montana, D. eylvatica, D. attenuate, D. 
:r;: do r s ' tte “- •«•»«*». which, 
Z tw 6 Md6rg0 ' 16 ™™iderablc enlargemenl 
those which • ’ D - Moonu aD<1 D. hirsnta, the third 
^Zr^„ T Tr Sideribly in Bi2e an dform a shallow 
pointed apices toneth^ ,nteTse S meaM P»nch and 
-stsecnlaZs ^: 1 ; - 
‘he apices become etmlil T ™*’ D ' Ebent,m - 
margin strongly reilezed ^1) — h0riZOntai and ‘ h8 
the enlarged woodv eat v ° msi ^ nis and I>. crumenata 
consequenceolthedyinTb^IZ ^'l" 813 ' Wsided in 
the very reflex nature of theJ^T' the8egmente 
flower stage,ZZcZbZZ th^ l>lbe8C0nt in the 
hairs, with one exception 1“ °* * rIliHD 8 s“«e. The 
from single cells. i„ n ^ 118 ' micel h>lar outgrowths 
shallow calyx cup is coZ!TZ the - ‘he 
lots hairs, the latter hJi ““moHular and pedicel- 
globular multicellulm T mMh the appearance of 
glands supported on x>edi^]« of 
