IN CEYLON. 
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with black hairs ; only rarely are the flowers solitary. (See 
pi. XI., figs. 10 and 11.) 
Flowers long and narrow in bud measuring 9 mm. long 
and 1*5 mm. diameter, smallest flower among Ceylon 
species of Diospyros, dirty yellow in colour, usually turned 
downwards, and easily detached. 
Calyx small, dark brown, pubescent, 2 mm. long ; 
segments 4-5, deltoid, acuminate apex, 0*9 mm. long, 
densely coated with dark hairs. 
Corolla small, dirty white, diameter of open flower 5 mm., 
diameter at base 2 mm., covered externally with dark 
adpressed hairs ; segments 4-5, acuminate, rotate, sub- 
glabrous inside, 2 mm. long. 
titamens epipetalous, 4-6, unequal in length, glabrous 
(4-5 in one row, Hiern) ; anthers yellow, 1*6 mm. long, 
tapering apex, occasionally apiculate ; filaments white, 
03-1*2 mm. long ; pollen greenish-yellow, thin smooth wall, 
circular, coarsely granular contents. 
Pistil rudimentary or as central flat hairy disc. 
Female flowers sessile and solitary in leaf axil ; in bud 
four-sided, pyramidical, 7 mm. long, dirty yellow in colour; 
when open measures 10 mm. in length, average diameter 
5 mm. (See pi. XI., fig. 14.) 
Calyx segments 3-4-5, accrescent, brown, feeble inter- 
segmental groove and reflexed margin, deeply divided, 
deltoid, thinly covered with black stiff hairs, 6 mm. long. 
Corolla dirty yellow when fresh, red when about to drop; 
projects 3-4 mm. above calyx ; segments 3-4-5, rotate, with 
under surface of exposed halves densely pubescent, tapering- 
acute apex, 4 mm. long. 
Staminodes 4-5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla seg¬ 
ments ; anthers vellowish-brown, barren, glabrous, 1*2 mm. 
long ; filaments yellowish-white, glabrous, 2 mm. long 
Pistil yellow and covered with stiff black accrescent hairs; 
6 mm. long in mature flower ; style short, stigmas 2, black, 
short, each about 1*1 mm. long; ovary pear-shaped, densely 
pubescent, 4-celled, 3 mm. in length. 
