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of open flower 10 mm.; corolla throat is wide and covered 

 with silky unicellular hairs on both surfaces. 



Stamens 24-30-40-64 (very unequal numbers), form 

 epipetalous ring around abortive pistil or occupy central 

 position ; very unequal in length, often united throughout 

 greater part of filament ; usually in pairs, average length 

 8 mm.; anthers free, equal in length, reddish-brown rectan- 

 gular outline when mature, glabrous, attenuate apex; fila- 

 ments united, white, short, and covered on all surfaces with 

 long unicellular hairs ; pollen grains circular, even outline, 

 brownish-yellow, finely granular contents. 



Pistil usually occurs as a flattened circular central 

 apiculate disc, or as a bunch of hairs positioned on the 

 receptacle ; in several cases the pistil assumes large dimen- 

 sions with ovary many-celled. 



Female inflorescence arises as globular structure in axil 

 of normal foliage leaf, 1-5 flowers, subsessile or cymose ; 

 peduncle 10 mm. long, 4 mm. diameter, covered with yellow- 

 ish-white hairs which rapidly turn to brownish-red ; bracts 

 usually 4, 10 mm. long, brown, bluntly acuminate ap ex 

 covered with unicellular hairs ; lower two form an opposite 

 pair at right angles to antero-posterior axis, upper two are 

 larger, and arranged one on each side at right angles to the 

 first pair, but at different levels. 



Flowers occur one in the axil of each bract, but the 

 upper pair usually drop ; very frequently the lower pair do 

 the same, thus reducing the inflorescence to a peduncle show- 

 ing four leaf scars along its length and terminated by the 

 oldest and fruiting flower (cf. D. Gardneri). (See pi. IX., 

 figs. 7-11.) 



Flowers larger than in male and largest in Ceylon Dios- 

 pyros group, measuring 20 mm. high, 30 mm. diameter when 

 mature. 



Galyx 3-4-5-lobed, accrescent in young flower, but be- 

 comes horizontal shortly after fertilization, and finally the 

 marginsare recurved; segments ovate, tapering towards apex, 



