IN CEYLON. 
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Fruit oblong-ovoid, 35 mm. high, 23 mm. average 
diameter, wider at the top than towards calyx, rounded at top, 
apiculate ; carpellary wall green, glabrous, uneven surface 
first being papillate and finally strongly lobulate, the lobes 
being conspicuous in one seeded fruits ; usually 4-6-celled, 
one seeded ; fruiting calyx slightly enlarged, flat, circular, 
total diameter 11 mm., persistent, glabrous, black. (See pi. 
VIL, fig. 5.) 
Seeds flattened, elliptical, with two longitudinal grooves 
running along the surface, or tending to become as broad 
as long with a beaked micropyle and as many as five deep 
longitudinal grooves ; form different from all other species; 
average length 25 mm., width 15 mm. ; testa brown, shiny; 
endosperm copious, horny, equable ; embryo white, 11 mm. 
long. 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicotyle- 
donary leaves slightly enhanced developmentally ; cotyledons 
narrow, yellow, 12 by 4 mm. ; hypocotyl short type, 
10-30 mm. long, 2*5 mm. diameter, at first white, but soon 
turns brown and black ; epicotyledonary stem long, slender 
type bearing several small leaves along its length at intervals 
of about 10-20 mm. ; at a distance of about 40 mm. the 
large leaves are borne alternately ; stem greenish, densely 
pubescent ; epicotyledonary leaves lanceolate-ovate, even 
surface, glabrous above except along midrib, pubescent 
beneath, venation faintly pellucid ; veins not prominent on 
either side, widely reticulate, petiole short ; traces three per 
cotyledon, xylem splits into 8-13 strands ; one trace per 
epicotyledonary leaf, continued below cotyledonary node. 
Developmentally and morphologically these seedlings are, 
in many respects, like those of D. insignis. The epicotyle¬ 
donary leaf rudiments suggest Garcinia. 
The timber is very variable. The young trees have usually 
a small black or brown heartwood, and a sapwood of a 
faint red tint ; large trees possess a coloured heartwood 
of considerable size ; one tree having a total diameter of 
8(10)04 (5) 
