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The object has been to work out all details of our 

 recognized species rather than to subdivide into varieties. 

 Hence the question of the possibility of two species in 

 D. montana, Roxb., D. Embryopteris, Pers., and D. Ebenum, 

 feoen., is only briefly dealt with. I am, however, unable to 

 agree with the grouping of D. Thwaitesii, Bedd., D. Moonii, 

 Thw., and D. hirsuta, Z., under one species D. hirsuta, 

 Linn.* as adopted in Hiern's monograph, and have, therefore, 

 for reasons obvious in the descriptions of these species, 

 adopted the separate classification used by Trimen.* 



A D. ovaliffolia, R. Wight, Ic. 1. 1,227 (1850). 



Kunumella, Habara, S. ; Vedukkanari, T. 



Thw. Enum. 181 (1864). G. P. 1825 (2,533). Fl. B. Ind. 

 III., 557. Wight, Ic. 1. 1,227 (1850). Hiern, Mon. Eben. 237. 



A. moderate-sized tree, dicecious ; bark with brown and 

 pale alternating streaks ; becomes partly deciduous in the 

 dry season in the Northern Province ; flowers in September 

 and fruits in March. Leaves 35-130 mm. long, 6-50 mm. 

 wide, alternate, accrescent and crowded, oval or lanceolate- 

 oblong, obtuse or rounded at apex, narrowed at base, glabrous, 

 thinly coriaceous, paler beneath with prominent venation ; 

 petiole 3-7 mm. long. 



Male inflorescence consists of sessile clusters of 3-7 flowers 

 mainly on woody twigs ; bracts form a basal involucre. 

 (See pi. XV., fig. 1.) 



Flowers yellow, 5-10 mm. long ; they appear from 

 September to December. 



Calyx green, slightly hairy, and openly campanulate ; 

 segments 4-5, apex rounded. 



Corolla yellow, urceolate, glabrous or nearly so, 5-8 mm. 

 long ; segments 4-5, obtuse apex, recurved when mature. 



Stamens 13-20, paired, surrounding central rudimentary 

 disc ; filaments unequal, about one-sixth the length of 

 anthers ; anthers brown and glabrous. 



* I have, since writing the above, received a communication from 

 W. P. Hiern, Esq., in which that gentleman agrees with the separate 

 classification here adopted. 



