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Thw. Enum. 179. C. P. 1,911. Fl. B. Ind. HI., 556. 

 Hiern, Mon. Eben. 263. 



A large or moderate-sized tree, dioecious, evergreen; 

 branches glabrous, forming dense roundhead (cf. D. Einbry- 

 opteris) ; bark thick, black, or dark grayish-brown. Leaves 

 alternate, 75-300 mm. long, 25-80 mm. wide, acuminate apex . 

 narrowed or rounded at base, glabrous, coriaceous, venation 

 close, pellucid (cf. D. Ebenum), prominent when dry ; mid- 

 rib depressed on upper surf ace, green, paler on under surface : 

 petiole stout, grooved, 5-12 mm. long, glabrous. 



Flowers January-April-November ; fruits ripe August- 

 December. 



Male inflorescence arises in axil of new or old normal 

 foliage leaf or caducous bract. In the simplest case the cyme 

 is 3-flowered, each lateral flower arising in the axil of a bract. 

 The pedicel of each lateral flower bears a small bracteole (at 

 an angle of 90 from the bract at the base of pedicel), which 

 appears late and is positioned immediately beneath the calyx; 

 bracts at base of peduncle green, pubescent, long tapering 

 apex, prominent midrib, 7 mm. long and 2 mm. wide ; bract 

 at base of pedicel of each lateral flower is hood-shaped, has? 

 shortly tapering and acute apex, ventral surface pubescent. 

 2 mm. long and 2 mm. wide ; bracteole on pedicel of each 

 lateral flower is hood-shaped, ventral surface covered with 

 short brown hairs, 1*5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide ; primary 

 peduncle green, covered with caducous or persistent brown 

 hairs, 8-12 mm. long ; lateral pedicels green, hairy, about 

 5 mm. long, and extending higher than median flower. 

 (See pi. X., figs. 7 and 8.) 



In a more complex inflorescence the lateral flowers arising 

 on the long peduncle repeat the dichotomous structure 

 detailed above ; in cultivated specimens inflorescence 3-12- 

 flowered. 



Flowers yellow, globose-ovoid in bud, and measuring 8 mm. 

 long, 5 mm. diameter; open flowers measure 11 mm. in 

 length and 6 mm. in diameter, fragrant. 



