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Pistil rudimentary, apiculate. hairy. 



Female flowers solitary or as sessile clusters of 3-9 flowers 

 in axils of leaves or on woody twigs ; buds pubescent, 

 globular, surrounded by two or three small deciduous bracts. 

 (See pi. XV., fig. 2.) 



Calyx segments 4-5, brown or green, pubescent, 3 mm. 

 long, rounded or bluntly acute at apex. 



Corolla yellow, conical in bud, segments 4-5, shorter than 

 tube. 



Staminodes 1-7, usually 4, sometimes absent, hypogynous 

 or at base of corolla. 



Pistil green, pubescent ; stigmas 2-4, green, reniform ; 

 ovary pubescent, conical, 4-celled (see pi. XV., figs. 4 and 5) 

 Fruit globose, 2 cm. diameter, solitary, subsessile, 1-3-4, 

 usually 1 - seeded, glabrous ; fruiting calyx enlarged, 

 thickened, reflexed. Fruits ripe in March. 



Seeds hard, globose when solitary, wedge-shaped when 

 numerous ; testa brown and superficially striated, 7 mm. dia- 

 meter, 9 mm. long ; endosperm abundant, equable ; embryo 

 white, 5 mm. long. (See pi. XV., fig. 3.) 



Seedlings epigeal ; cotyledons detached early, testa does 

 not split (cf. D. pruriens) ; cotyledons ovate, rounded base 

 and apex, 4-6 mm. long ; hypocotyl white or yellow, thin, 

 50-60 mm. long, 2 mm. diameter ; epicotyledonary stem 

 8 mm. long ; first epicotyledonary leaves form an opposite 

 pair, ovate, hairy, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide ; traces 2 per coty- 

 ledon which are not split to any great extent at the node and 

 give a four-cornered appearance to the vascular cylinder in 

 the hypocotyl, thus resembling D. montana and D. Ebenum ; 

 epicotyledonary traces one per leaf, conspicuous in the 

 ungerminated embryo, particularly the phloem. In the 

 apex of the primary root there are only eight strands, which 

 may be the result of the splitting of four cotyledonary 

 or may consist of two epicotyledonary and six cotyledonary 

 strands. 



Timber brown or dirty white or faint red in colour, 

 inferior, sapwood and heartwood of very old trees possessing 



