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A large slow-growing evergreen tree, dioecious ; trunk 

 erect and feebly buttressed ; branches dark and spreading : 

 bark blackish-gray, 12 to 20 mm. thick in very old trees, 

 peels off in thin sheets exposing brownish layer beneath ; 

 bark of twigs shows irregular, narrow, longitudinal ridges ; 

 young twigs stout, green, glabrous. 



Leaves alternate, 75-180 mm, long, 40-80 mm. wide, 

 oblong-oval, or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate obtuse 

 apex, glabrous, coriaceous ; venation feebly pellucid in young 

 leaves, lateral veins inconspicuous, nearly horizontal, pro- 

 minent when dry ; petiole 12-20 mm. long, stout, flattened, 

 and canaliculate above. 



Male inflorescence occurs in axil of foliage leaf or small 

 caducous bract ; in former case there is often congenital con- 

 crescence of peduncle and stem for a distance of several mm. : 

 flowers 3-9 on drooping pedicels along the length of primary 

 peduncle at very irregular distances, the first flower occurring 

 at the base or 20 mm. above the base ; primary peduncle 

 green, stout, very variable length ; each flower is pedicellate 

 and subtended by a caducous bracteole. Each pedicel bears 

 an opposite pair of small bracteoles ; pedicels green, slightly 

 pubescent, wide towards flower, 6 mm. long, 1*5 mm. 

 diameter ; bracteole subtending pedicel green, pubescent, 

 sessile, tapering obtuse apex, rounded base, caducous, 8 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide ; basal bracteole and axis green, covered 

 with long unicellular hairs, lanceolate, tapering apex, 4 mm. 

 long, early caducous leaving small scar. Hence there appears 

 to be an inflorescence, which though now approximating to 

 a raceme, possesses the rudiments of a dichasial cyme. 

 (See pi. VI., fig. 7). 



The flowers are often closed when the mature pollen is 

 ready for dispersion ; the diameter of open throat is small 

 (cf. D. Toposia). 



Calyx green, forms deep cup for floral parts and in bud is 

 elongate-oval, 9 mm. long, 4 mm. diameter: segments 

 pubescent, deltoid, acute apex. 



