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Fruit green or yellow when ripe, globose, slightly apicu- 

 late, becomes glabrous, 30 mm. diameter, 25 mm. long ; 

 fruiting calyx enlarged, 30 mm. diameter, rather flattened 

 with segments glabrous, black, apices in contact with carpel- 

 lary wall, margins retiexed, intersegmental pouch large. 



Seeds usually 4, ovate, wedge shaped, 18 mm. long, 11 mm. 

 wide, 7 mm. thick ; testa deep brown ; endosperm copious 

 and ruminate. 



Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicotyledon- 

 ary system well developed before detachment of cotyledons 

 occurs ; cotyledons white, 11 mm. long, ovate, apex obtuse ; 

 hypocotyl white, 7 cm. long ; epicotyledonary stem reddish, 

 pubescent, 4 mm. long ; epicotyledonary leaves form an 

 opposite pair, ovate, tapering towards base, apex tapering, 

 obtuse ; venation reticulate ; 35 mm. long, 20 mm. wide ; 

 traces 3 per cotyledon, fairly equal in strength, xylem of 

 lateral strands split to varying degrees ; one epicotyledonary 

 trace per leaf, continued into hypocotyl and root. 



Timber. The coloured heartwood is usually small but 

 occasionally very good ; one tree measuring 24*4 metres high 

 (80 feet) and nearly 2 metres circumference, (6| feet) 

 possessed a small black heartwood only 100 mm. (4 inches) 

 diameter ; in some specimens much smaller than the fore- 

 going the heartwood was large, streaked brown, and probably 

 sold as " bastard " ebony ; such samples are often equal to 

 our best woods from an ornamental point of view (cf. D. 

 oocarpa). (See pi. I., fig. 4). 



The colouring matter is very abundant even in the sap- 

 wood ; the fibres are very high in percentage number, and 

 possess narrow lumina. 



Rings of growth are inconspicuous. 



Distribution. dry and intermediate zones, rather rare ; 

 between Uma-oya and Bilihul-oya on the lower Badulla 

 road from Kandy ; Viriniya, near Bibile ; Bintenna, Kanta- 

 lai, Kalugalla, Vavuniya. 



Also in Tinnevelly, S. India. 



