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WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
Corolla yellow, tubular, thick, narrow-throated, basal part 
swollen, 12 mm. long ; segments 4-5, rotate, pubescent 
beneath, broadly ovate, sub-acute apex. 
Stamens indefinite, or about 16, terminating receptacle, 
3 mm. long ; anthers yellowish-brown, nearly sessile, 
attenuate and pubescent apex ; filaments white, short, gla¬ 
brous ; pollen thin-walled, yellowish-white, feebly granular 
contents. 
Pistil absent or rudimentary. 
Female flowers. —My first fresh material was obtained 
through the kindness of F. Lewis, Esq., from Nahiti- 
mukalana, Atakalan korale, 1,800 feet above sea level. 
Flowers solitary, pedunculate in axil of foliage leaf, or on 
lower part of young shoots in axil of caducous bracts ; in 
bud 5 mm. long, 8 mm. diameter, resembling in appearance 
those of D. Melanoxylon. Open flower measures 20 mm. 
long, average diameter 3 mm. The peduncle is green, 
pubescent, measures 20 mm. in length, and bears two small 
caducous bracts at right angles to antero-posterior axis. (See 
pi. VI., fig. 5.) 
Calyx brown, covered with dense layer of velvety hairs ; 
segments 5, acute apex ; when young, margin slightly 
recurved, but later very wide intersegmental grooves are 
formed. These pouches are at first nearly horizontal, but 
subsequently widen and become strongly reflexed, the apices 
of the segments remaining erect and in contact with corolla. 
Corolla yellowish-white, pubescent, 15 mm. long, 12 mm. 
diameter ; segments 5, obtuse or rounded apex, recurved in 
old flowers, 5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide at base. 
Staminodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla lobes and 
2 mm. in length, occasionally smaller epipetalous altern¬ 
ating structures occur, probably rudimentary or abortive 
staminodes ; anthers barren, yellowish-brown, bluntly apicu- 
late ; filaments white, short, glabrous. 
Pistil green, pubescent, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. diameter : 
stigmas 5, green, short, undulating apices ; ovary 10-celled. 
