4.99 
DIOSPYROS Embryopteris. Femina. 
Polyandrous Date-Plum. Fertile-flowered. 
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POLYGAMIA DIG:Cl4A (. DIGECIA POLYANDRIA.) 
Nat. ord. GUAIACANE. Jussieu gen. 155. Div. [. Stamina definita. 
EBENACER. Brown prod. 1. 524. 
DIOSPYROS. Flores polygami (in Embryoptert dioici). Cal. pro- 
fundé 4-(nune 3-v. 6-) fidus. Cor. urceolata, 4-(nunc 8- v. 6-) fida. Mase. — 
Stamina basi corolle inserta, ejusdem lacinis dupla (in Embryopteri qua- 
drupla). Filamenta duplicata. Rudimentum pistilli. HERMAPH. FEM. 
Stamina effceta, pauciora. Germen 8-12-loculare, loculis monospermiis. 
Bacca globosa, calyce patenti demim reflexo. Brown prod. 1. 525. 
EMBRYOPTERIS Gertn. et Roxb. differt solim staminibus ratione lacini- 
arum corollz quadruplis. Brown L. c. 
D. Embryopteris, foliis lanceolato-oblongis, floribus axillaribus polyandris, 
bacca octosperma, Persoon syn. 2. 624. 
Embryopterisfglutinifera. Wélld. sp. pl. 4. 836. Roxburgh corom. 1. 49. t. 
40. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 407. ‘ 
Embryopteris peregrina. Gert: sem. 1. 145. t. 29. fig. 2. 
Mabola des Philippines. Cavanillea philippensis. Lamarck encyc. 3. 663. 
Jussieu in ann. du mus. 5. 418. 
Tumika. Telingis. Mangostan-utan. Malaicis. Lym appel. Batavis. 
Arbor medie magnitudinis, rectus, cortice glabriusculo fusco-ferruginoso, 
‘yamis sparsis, patentibus (novellis glabris). Fol. bifaria, alterna, lineari- 
oblonga, acuminata, lucido-glabra, coriacea, sesuncialia latitudine biun- 
ciali (2 culturé exotica nobis duplo minora v. magis) novella tenera atque 
rubra: pet. brevis: stipule solitarie, vaginose, evolvente folio disrupte 
exindeque caduce. Mas. Pedune. azillaris, solitarius, nutans, floribus 
3-4-v. pluribus, parvulis, albis: bractee parvule, caduce, singulo pedicello 
subtensé. Fil. 20 v. circa, apice bifida: anth. 40 v. circa, lineares, erecte. 
FaminaA. Pedune. axillaris, solitarius, simplex, uniflorus, flore albo 
plante mascule plurimim majore. Fil. 1-4, parva, brevia: anth. lineares, 
parve, casse. Germ. globosum: styli 4: stig. septs trifida. Bacca glo- 
bosa. Malum medie magnitudinis subequans, pulposa, matura ferrugineo- 
lutescens, ferrugineo-farinosa: sem. 8, raro aliqua abortiva, nidulantia, 
reniformia, aciem versus attenuata. Roxb. (ex anglico versum). 
The tree which furnishes the true ebony of the Cabinet- 
maker is a congener of the present, and has suggested the 
name of the order. Embryopteris is said by the Chevalier 
de Lamarck likewise to afford a hard close-grained jet- 
black ebony. It is dioicous, bearing the barren flowers on 
one tree, the fertile ones on another; and to this last side of 
the species our present sample belongs. 
