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bract 2 mm. in length, and is supported on a thin pedicel 
2-5 mm. long. Primary and secondary pedicels show great 
variation in length. Flower-bud 4 mm. long, conical, apical, 
scentless ; mature flower 8 mm. long and somewhat bell¬ 
shaped when segments recurved. (See pi. XYI., fig. 9.) 
Calyx segments 4, rounded or deltoid, thin, pubescent, 
small. 
Corolla , wide throated, segments 4, twisted at apex, 
urceolate, white or yellow. 
Stamens numerous or 16, in equal or unequal pairs, often 
united to form 8 pairs ; anthers brown, glabrous, apiculate, 
2-4 mm. long ; filaments white, glabrous, absent or 1 mm. 
long. 
Ovary is a flattened rudimentary disc often of consider¬ 
able size, which may yet be observed to develop into a ripe 
fruit ; the polygamous condition will probably be found if a 
sufficient number of trees are examined. 
The female flowers are usually solitary on woody twig or 
in axil of leaf (see pi. XYI., fig. 10); peduncle 4-12 mm. 
long, glabrous or pubescent ; bracts small, caducous. 
Calyx green, hairy, 10 mm. diameter ; segments!, 2-5 mm. 
long, rounded apex. 
Corolla white or yellow, wide-throated, 11 mm, long, 
glabrous ; segments 4, rotate. 
Staminodes small, 4-12, usually 4. 
Pistil green, glabrous or nearly so ; styles 4, bifid at apex, 
glabrous ; ovary glabrous, 8-celled. 
Fruit globose-apiculate, 12-20 mm. diameter, 16 mm. high, 
glabrous and shiny, cherry-red to brown in colour ; fruiting 
calyx thin, glabrous, accrescent or nearly horizontal, slightly 
enlarged, with segments 6-8 mm. long. (See pi. XYI.,fig. 7.) 
Seeds 2-6-8 per fruit, semilunar, wedge-shaped, brown, 
smooth, 8 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, 3 mm. thick ; endosperm 
equable, copious ; embryo white, small, 8-10 mm. long. (See 
pi. XYI., fig. 8.) 
Seedlings epigeal ; cotyledons persistent, ovate, tapering 
towards apex, green, glabrous, 30 x 15 mm. ; petiole of 
