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WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
glabrous or slightly pubescent, 1-5 mm. long; pollen yellow, 
even circular outline. (See pi. XII., figs. 9 and 10.) 
Pistil absent or represented by a flattened apiculate disc 
which often shows in transverse section a crude celled 
structure. 
Female flowers are solitary in axil of leaves, sessile or 
subsessile ; peduncle 4 mm. long, and possesses two pairs of 
bracts which never bear flowers in their axils, but from com¬ 
parison one may perceive a similarity with a cymose inflores¬ 
cence in which all except the primary flower abort (cfl D. 
Embryopteris) ; first pair of bracts brown, near base of 
peduncle and at right angles to antero-posterior axis ; second 
pair green, hairy, and at right angles to the first. (See 
pi. XII., figs. 11 and 12.) 
Calyx green, openly campanulate, pubescent ; segments 
3-4, usually 4, 10 mm. long, deltoid, margin recurved and 
undulated so as to form a ridge, 2 mm. wide, projecting 
outwards and downwards, tapering apex. 
Corolla white or yellow, tube 8 mm. wide, when mature 
15 mm. long and 10 mm. diameter at top, silky pubescent 
beneath ; segments 3-4, 7-10 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, strongly 
reflexed or spreading in open flower. 
Staminodes 8, epipetalous, opposite and alternate with 
corolla segments, 5 mm.long, 0*5 mm. wide; filaments white, 
hairy, 3 mm. long, adnate to corolla tube at base ; anthers 
white, barren. (See pi. XII., fig. 13.) 
Pistil with stigmas 3-4, greenish-white ; style persistent, 
5 mm. long ; ovary globose-apiculate, pubescent, 8-celled. 
Fruit solitary, green, nearly glabrous, depressed-globose, 
apiculate, yellow when ripe, 35 mm. high, 25 mm. diameter; 
fruiting calyx enlarged and hemispherical, deep undulating 
intersegmental grooves, cup for fruit 15 mm. deep. Seeds 
usually 8 per fruit, thin and flattened, micropylar end slightly 
recurved, antipolar end straight or rounded, 15-18 mm. long, 
8-10 mm. wide, 2 mm. thick ; testa olive-brown, shining, 
not streaked ; endosperm copious and equable ; embryo 
white and measures 17 mm* in length. 
