1. Diospyros Kaki is not a dioecious plant, but a monoecious one whose staminate flowers are disappearing under cultivation. 2. The monoecious habit might have been derived from a condition of perfect flowers; therefore this habit is not a primitive character in this species. 3. Perfect flowers do not indicate the primitive character of the variety in which they occur; they appear among other varieties only through restoration of lost parts. 4. The primitive character of Ebenaceae among Sympetalae is indicated by the spiral arrangement of petals; the stamen situation, although the number of stamens is not definite; and the two integuments. 5. Megaspore formation is also of a primitive character, and suggests, along with other characters of the family, that it may have some relation to the Myrtiflorae. 6. There is no parietal tissue in the microsporangium, which indicates that Ebenaceae come from some higher family of Archichlamydeae, because in the lower families parietal tissue usually occurs in the mega...