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Fruit oblong-ovoid, 35 mm. high, 23 mm. average 

 diameter, wider at the top than towards calyx, rounded at top, 

 apiculate ; carpellary wall green, glabrous, uneven surface 

 first being papillate and finally strongly lobulate, the lobes 

 being conspicuous in one seeded fruits ; usually 4-6-eelled, 

 one seeded; fruiting calyx slightly enlarged, flat, circular, 

 total diameter 11 mm., persistent, glabrous, black. (See pi. 

 VII., fig. 5.) 



Seeds flattened, elliptical, with two longitudinal grooves 

 running along the surface, or tending to become as broad 

 as long with a beaked micropyle and as many as five deep 

 longitudinal grooves ; form different from all other species; 

 average length 25 mm., width 15 mm. ; testa brown, shiny; 

 endosperm copious, horny, equable ; embryo white, 11 mm. 

 long. 



Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicotyle- 

 donary leaves slightly enhanced developmentally ; cotyledons 

 narrow, yellow, 12 by 4 mm. ; hypocotyl short type, 

 10-30 mm. long, 2*5 mm. diameter, at first white, but soon 

 turns brown and black ; epicotyledonary stem long, slender 

 type bearing several small leaves along its length at intervals 

 of about 10-20 mm. ; at a distance of about 40 mm. the 

 large leaves are borne alternately ; stem greenish, densely 

 pubescent ; epicotyledonary leaves lanceolate-ovate, even 

 surface, glabrous above except along midrib, pubescent 

 beneath, venation faintly pellucid ; veins not prominent on 

 either side, widely reticulate, petiole short ; traces three per 

 cotyledon, xylem splits into 8-13 strands ; one trace per 

 epicotyledonary leaf, continued below cotyledonary node. 



Developmentally and morphologically these seedlings are, 

 in many respects, like those of D. insignis. The epicotyle- 

 donary leaf rudiments suggest Garcinia. 



The timber is very variable. The young trees have usually 

 a small black or brown heartwood, and a sap wood of a 

 faint red tint ; large trees possess a coloured heartwood 

 of considerable size ; one tree having a total diameter of 



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