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EBENACEES. 227GENERA1 Diospyros L. — Flores polygamo-diceci; receptaculo convexiusculo.Sepala 3-8, libéra v. plus minus alte connata, sub fructuaccrescentia, imbricata v. reduplicata; calice nunc truncato v. inaequi-rupto.Corolla campanulata, urceolata, hypocraterimorpha v.tubulosa, nunc extus pubescens; lobis 3-8, tortis v. raro imbricatis.Stamina 4-20 (in flore fcemineo sterilia v. minuta), ima? corollae affixav. subhypogyna; filamentis liberis v. varie connatis, nunc superpositis;antheris lineari-lanceolatis, lateraliter 2-rimosis v. ad apicemsubporicidis. Germen sessile (in flore masculo rudimentarium v. 0)glabrum v.viilosum; stylis v. styli ramis 1-4, nunc in massam stigmatosamsubsessilem connatis; germinis loculis stylorum numéroaequalibus, 2-ovulatis et plerumque 2-locellatis. Ovula descendentia;micropyle introrsum supera. Fructus calyce stipatus, forma varius,saepius pulposus. Semina descendentia nitida; albumine oequabili v.ruminato; embryonis inversi radicula cylindracea supera; cotylèdonibussaepius foliaceis acutis nervatis. —Arbores v. frutices; foliisalternis v. suboppositis ; floribus in cymas axillares v. secus ramoslatérales dispositis, nunc raro solitariis. (Orbis utriusque reg. calid. ettemp.) — Vid. p. 2212? Royena L. [ — Flores fere Diospyri; calycis dentibus v. lobis 5,valvatis. Corollae campanulaUe v. urceolatae lobi saepius 5, torti. Stamina10, v. rarius 8-15, imae corollae affixa; filamentis brevissimiserectis; antheris lineari-lanceolatis sub-4-gonis, superne saepiushirsutis, 2-rimosis (in flore fcemineo effœtis). Germen hirsutum, basi1. Gen.,x\. 555. — J., Gen., 156. — CERTN., VIII, 210. — ENDL., Gen., n. 4251.—H. BN, inFrucl, t. 94.—POIR., Dict., VI, 320; SuppL, Pager Fam. nal, 258. — HIERN, Mon. Ebenac,76, t. 2. — B. H., Gen., II, 663, n. IV, 722. - LAMK, ///., t. 370. — DC, Prodr.,1.