The Genus Diospyros in Ceylon: its 

 Morphology, Anatomy, and Taxonomy. 



HERBERT WRIGHT. 



(With Plates I.-XX.) 



Part II. 



fT^HE present contribution is the concluding portion of my 

 -*- paper, the first part of which was published in January, 

 1904. For local convenience the species are described in 

 the same order as previously adopted in Trimen's Flora of 

 Ceylon. A reference to Hiern's monograph for each species 

 is also quoted. The synonyms for each species are not 

 given since reference can always be made to those quoted in 

 Hiern's comprehensive monograph on the Ebenaceae. 



In Part I. I explained that the flower systems were pre- 

 viously imperfectly known, and the descriptions given by 

 Trimen and Hiern are frequently inadequate on account of 

 the limited supply of fresh material which those botanists 

 had at their command. In Trimen's Flora the staminal 

 whorls of the male and female flowers, and often the 

 accessory whorls, are not separately described. 



In many species the flowers or fruits are not described in 

 Trimen's Flora, but in several of these cases descriptions are 

 obtainable from Hiern. 



The male and female flowers, timbers, fruits, seeds, and 

 seedlings have now been obtained for every Ceylon species 

 except D. Moonii, and many of them are described here 

 for the first time from material obtained in this Island. 



[Annals of the Royal Botanic OnnlcnR, Peradeniya, Vol. IL.Pt. H., August, 1904.] 



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