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Fruit oblong or subglobose with wide base and flattened 

 top, green, glandular, and covered with short thick-walled 

 unicellular hairs, 40-60 mm. high, 30-40 mm. diameter : 

 fruiting calyx enlarged, total diameter *25 mm., flat ; seg- 

 ments 10 mm. long, upper surface brown or green, rounded 

 or oblong. (See pi. X., fig. 10.) 



At Hiniduma there appears to be a variety having a 

 globose-apiculate fruit about the size of ripe fruits in D. 

 Ebenum or D. affinis. 



Seeds 2-4 per fruit, oval or elliptical, or wedge-shaped ; 

 smooth brown testa, 25 mm. long, 10 mm. wide ; endosperm 

 copious, equable. Embryo white. 



Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicotyledo- 

 nary system not well developed, and in seedlings 50 mm. long, 

 very minute ; hypocotyl white, thick, rather short, 40-50 mm. 

 long, suggesting affinity with D. insignis and D. dodecandra. 

 Epicotyledonary stem very long, 60-70 mm., longer than 

 in any other species of Diospyros, suggesting D. insignis, 

 except that it has no young leaves in the lower part ; first 

 epicotyledonary leaves form an opposite pair, but at different 

 levels ; '6 traces per cotyledon, 1 trace per epicotyledonary 

 leaf ; cotyledonary xylem splits to form 10-15 groups ; 

 epicotyledonary traces not well developed, and their courses 

 are difficult to follow. (See pi. XVII., fig. 4.) 



Timber red when freshly felled, deepening to reddish- 

 brown on exposure. Black heartwood rarely of great size, 

 usually numerous black strands irregularly distributed 

 through the brown wood. This species is only rarely felled 

 for the ebony it contains. (See pi. III., fig. 12.) 



The tracheal elements contain abundance of a gummy 

 deposit, yellow to brown in colour ; contents in parenchyma 

 are brown and granular. The per cent, number of trachea! 

 elements is low and that of the fibres high ; the differentia- 

 tion of all the secondary elements is relatively constant. 



Rings of growth are often conspicuous to naked eye. 



Uses. The ripe fruits are steeped in water and afterward* 

 eaten by some natives. The timber of freshly felled trees 



