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. Diospyros crumenata, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL, p. 179, 

 n. 5 (1860). Fl. B. Ind. III., 567. C. P. 2,438. Hiern, Mon. 

 Eben, 169. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. Part VII., p. 26, t. 126 

 (1871). 



A large evergreen tree, dioecious ; bark thick, black, 

 rather scaly ; trunk erect, twigs glabrous. 



Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm. long, 25-50 mm. wide, oval- 

 oblong, abruptly acuminate apex, rounded or narrowed at 

 base, glabrous and shining, coriaceous, pellucid venation, net 

 veins rather prominent ; petiole canaliculate above, 6-10 mm. 

 long. Flowers March-August ; ripe fruits January-October. 



Male inflorescence consists of a pedicellate spreading cyme 

 of 3-7 flowers. (See pi. VIII., fig. 1.) 



Flowers yellow, 15 mm. long, throat 4 mm. diameter, top 

 of open flower 11 mm. diameter. Peduncle 3-10 mm. long, 

 green, hairy ; ultimate pedicels 1-4 mm. long. 



Calyx green, cupuliform, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous inside ; 

 segments 4, short or obscure. 



UorolUi yellow, tubular, 14 mm. long ; segments 4, short, 

 rounded apices, broad and recurved in open flower. 



Stamens 8-14, hypogynous, 4-6 mm. long ; anthers brown 

 or yellow, attenuate, glabrous, 4-5 mm. long ; filaments 

 white, glabrous, 1 mm. long, sometimes absent ; pollen 

 yellow, circular. (See pi. VIII., fig. 2.) 



Pistil absent or rudimentary. 



Female flowers solitary, in axil of foliage leaves and 

 usually limited to the lower part of young shoot ; approxi- 

 mately spherical in bud, measuring 9 mm. diameter. 

 Peduncle 5-10 mm. long, 2-5 mm. diameter ; two or more 

 small caducous bracteoles occur on the peduncle, the first 

 two forming an opposite pair at right angles to antero- 

 posterior axis (cf . D. affinis). (See pi. VIII., fig. 3,) . 



Calyx green, under surface hairy ; segments 4, accrescent 

 in flower, acute apex ; margin becomes reflexed, and deep 

 intersegmental pouches are formed after the flower has 

 opened. 



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