IN CEYLON. 
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Ambalawa, Passara, Bibile, Yiriniya, Bintenna, Yavuniya, 
Trincomalee, Anuradhapura. iUso in South India and 
Malaya. 
Oiospyros prunens, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot., Yol. 
IY., p. 110, n. 2 (1852). 
Bu-Kaluwara, S. (see below, p. 153.) 
Thw. Enum. 423. C. P. 2,836. Hiern, Mon. Eben. 185. 
Fl. B. Ind. III., 553. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 129. 
A small drooping or erect tree with trunk rarely exceed¬ 
ing 1 foot circumference, evergreen, dioecious ; branches 
and young twigs densely coated with long stiff brown hairs, 
3-5 mm. in length ; bark black, rather smooth, with narrow 
short ridges running longitudinally, reddish-brown when 
cut. Leaves not abundant, alternate, 50-100 mm. long, 
15-45 mm. wide ; obtusely acuminate apex, rounded or 
subcordate base, densely covered under surface with long 
yellowish-brown stiff hairs, especially on the veins, midrib, 
and margin, upper surface glabrous except along midrib, 
thin, not coriaceous, pale green below, venation widely 
reticulate and faintly pellucid, lateral veins not strong ; 
petiole 5 mm. long, reddish-brown, covered with long 
stiff hairs. (See pi. XIII., fig 9.) 
The male inflorescence arises in the axil of a foliage leaf, 
and consists of a raceme of 3-4 pedicellate flowers, the 
oldest being at the base and youngest at the top ; primary 
peduncle is reddish-brown, covered with long stiff hairs, 
10 mm. long, 1 mm. diameter, widening towards flowers ; 
bracts subtending pedicel of each flower reddish-brown, 
rounded, very hairy on lower surface, caducous, 3 mm. 
long. 
Flowers yellow, measuring 13-25 mm. in length. (See 
pi. XIII., fig. 9.) 
Calyx green, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. diameter at base ; seg¬ 
ments 4, thin and papery, accrescent, linear-oblong, narrow 
at base, tapering acuminate apex, neutral surface covered 
with long yellowish-white hairs 5 mm. in length. 
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