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Corolla yellow, outside covered with short white hairs, 

 16 mm. long when unopened, diameter of open flower at top 

 20 mm.; segments 4, rarely 3, rotate, tapering acute apex, 

 10 mm. long. 



Staminodes 4, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments ; 

 in one case there were eight separate staminodes each typical 

 in form and having barren anthers ; anthers barren, brown, 

 tapering apex but not apiculate, 2 mm. long ; filaments 

 white, glabrous, 1*5 mm. long. 



Pistil with 4 stigmas, yellowish-watery appearance, thin 

 and undulating ; style stout, 4 mm. long, 1/5 mm. diameter ; 

 ovary small, greenish, nearly glabrous, 8-celled, the loculi of 

 adjacent pairs becoming grouped opposite the middle of 

 calyx segments. 



Fruit solitary, terminates young shoot, ovoid-attenuate, 

 30 mm. long, 12 mm. diameter, green, glabrous. Some fruits 

 have a broad base and taper quickly towards apex ; others 

 are narrow at base and strongly attenuate at apex ; fruiting 

 calyx woody, enlarged, forming deep cup for fruit, total 

 length 18 mm., cup 18 mm. diameter. (See pi. VI., fig. 2). . 



Seeds 2-5 per fruit, wedge-shaped having convex surface 

 in contact with carpellary wall, tapering strongly towards 

 both ends ; 28 mm. long, 10 mm. wide ; testa brown, smooth ; 

 endosperm copious, horny, equable. 



Embryo white. 



Timber. Regarding the wood from this species, Trimen 

 states (Vol. III., p. 101) that according to Thwaites the 

 timber resembles true calamander, but that the tree 

 requires more careful examination and is almost unknown. 

 The Sinhalese name is the same as that applied to calamander. 

 My experience does not confirm this. The timber when 

 freshly felled is white or dirty white in colour, with a hollow 

 decayed centre. Young trees 75 mm. (3 inches) diameter 

 are invariably hollow in the centre, and large trees measur- 

 ing 480 mm. diameter possess only a narrow peripheral band 

 of dirty white living wood, the central and median portions 



