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Kuruwiti korale ; Ratnapura, Dotalankanda, Pasdunkorale; 

 Yagiralla, near Udugama ; Nahitimukalana, Atakalan korale; 

 Pennelmukalana, Madampe district. 



The trees grow well on rocky, porous, damp slopes, rich, 

 in silica and iron ; they vary from 0*6 to 2*4 metres (2-8 feet) 

 in circumference, and 12 to 24 metres (40-80 feet) in height. 



The largest specimen I have seen measured twelve metres 

 (40 feet) before the first branch, total height 27-4 metres 

 (90 feet), and breast height circumference of 2'4 metres 

 (8 feet); this was a male tree, Yagiralla forest, 900 feet above 

 sea level. 



. Diospyros sylvatica, Roxb. Cor. PI., p. 37, t. 47 (1795) 



Sudu-kadumberiya, S ; Karuppu Thoveria, T. 



Alph. B.C. Prodr. VIIL, p. 231. (1844). Thw. Enum. 178. 

 C.P. 2,729, Fl.B. Ind. III,. 559 Bedd., Ic. Pl.Ind., Part VII., 

 p. 25, t. 121 (1871). Hiern, Mon. Eben. 161. 



A very large tree, attaining a circumference of 4 metres (13 

 feet) and height of 61 metres (200 feet), evergreen, dioecious 

 and polygamous ; trunk erect, buttressed at base, bark of twig 

 shows coarse reticulation, bark of trunk blackish-gray, 

 thick. Leaves alternate, 70-130 mm. long, 20-60 mm. wide, 

 oval, acuminate apex, narrowed or rounded at base, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; young leaves thin, old leaves coriaceous, deep 

 green above, paler beneath ; venation reticulate, meshes 

 wide, pellucid, midrib and veins depressed on upper side ; 

 petiole flattened, feebly puberulous, 5-12 mm. long. 



Polygamous trees. These are very similar to D. Gardner! 

 and D. Ebenum. 



The seeds and seedlings from polygamous trees possess the 

 same characters, anatomically and developmentally, as those 

 obtained from pure female trees. All the flowers on these 

 trees possess fertile stamens and a rudimentary or fertile 

 pistil, those with fertile pistils being usually accompanied 

 with larger accessory whorls. The absence of flowers with 

 fertile pistils during the first few weeks of flowering has 

 been noticed, and it seems quite probable that the production 



