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cracks about 10 mm. apart, running vertically through a 
distance of 100-200 mm. ; peels off in large thin flakes expos¬ 
ing brown surface ; young twigs thick, green and pubescent ; 
the habit and bark characters are very pronounced. 
Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, 140-240 mm. long, 
40-120 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute apex 
rounded or narrowed at base, glabrous, toughly membrane 
ous, pale green beneath ; venation conspicuous, midrib and 
lateral veins project on lower surface, lateral veins connected 
by parallel transverse veinlets ; petiole green, cylindrical, 
glabrous, 15 mm. long, 2*5 mm. diameter. 
The polygamous state is very common ; the same stages as 
determined in D. sylvatica, D. Gardneri, and D. affinis have 
been observed for this species. The hermaphrodite and 
male flowers occur on the same tree, showing all stages 
between a central apiculate disc and a pistil with an 8-celled 
ovary ; the hermaphrodite flowers may occur in the same 
cluster as the male, or in separate clusters, the occurrence 
being very erratic. (See pi. XIV., fig. 2). 
Male inflorescence consists of an axillary subsessile cluster, 
3-10 flowers similar to those described for D. hirsuta; 
flowers in March on stems 60 mm. diameter. (See pi. XIV., 
fig. 1). 
Calyx green, 4 mm. long ; segments 4, short, accrescent, 
ovate, acute apex, nearly glabrous. 
Corolla yellowish-white, shortly tubular, 10 mm. long, 
narrow-throated when mature : segments 4, rotate, short, 
pale and hairy outside. 
Stamens 14-16-20, epipetalous at base of corolla, single or 
paired, inner shorter than outer, average length 5 mm., very 
unequal ; anthers brown, apiculate, longer than filaments, 
length 3*5 (outer), 2 mm. (inner) ; filaments white, glabrous 
or pubescent, length 3 mm. (outer), 0’5 mm. (inner). 
Pistil apiculate central disc, pubescent, 5 mm. high ; 
crude locular structure seen in transverse section. 
The female flowers have not been previously described. 
