. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIOSPYROS burghi). — VaT. coat&ta, Mast. Fr. large, depressed, globular, orange-red, with i furrows. 1870:410. :777; III. 9:171; 13:51. Gn. 49, p. 171. Var. Mazdli, Mouillef. Fr. orange-yellow, with 8 furrows. 1874:70. Other varieties are figured in 1872, p. 254; 1878:470; 1887; 348;
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. DIOSPYROS burghi). — VaT. coat&ta, Mast. Fr. large, depressed, globular, orange-red, with i furrows. 1870:410. :777; III. 9:171; 13:51. Gn. 49, p. 171. Var. Mazdli, Mouillef. Fr. orange-yellow, with 8 furrows. 1874:70. Other varieties are figured in 1872, p. 254; 1878:470; 1887; 348; 1888:60, and 12:331-8,459-62. A very desirable and beautiful fruit- bearing tree for the southern states, where a number of different varieties introduced from Jap. are cultivated, but the hai'dier varieties from the north of Jap. and China, which are likely to be hardy north to New England, seem hitherto not to have been introduced. Fig. 715 is from Georgeson's articles in 1891. AA. Jjvs. small, obtuse or emarginate : corolla and calyx 5-lobed. Textaa, Scheele (B. Mexic&na, Scheele MS.). Small tree, intricately branched, rarely to 40 ft.: Ivs. cuneate, oblong or obovate, pubescent below, 1-2 in. long: fls. witli the Ivs., pubescent, on branches of the previous year, staminate with 16 stamens, pistillate with 4 pu- bescent styles, connate at the base: fr. black, %-l in. indiam. Spring. Tes.,N. Mex. 6:254. Z>. EMnum, Koenig. Tree, to 50 ft.: Ivs. elliptic-oblong, bluntly acuminate, glabrous: fls. white, staminate, in short ra- cemes. E. Ind., Ceylon. For cult, in hothouses or tropical cli- mates. This species is said to yield the best ebony. Alfred Behdee. DIPLADENIA 489. 717. A cultivated fruit of Kaki. Nearly natural size. SIFCADI (meaning uncertain). Idli&cece. Tender bulbous plants of minor importance, allied to Galtonia, with radical, thickish, narrowly linear Ivs. and loose racemes of odd-colored fls. on leafless scapes. About 20 species in sou
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