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The Genus Diospyros in Ceylon: its 
Morphology, Anatomy, and Taxonomy. 
BY 
HERBERT WRIGHT. 
(With Plates I.-XX.) 
Part IL 
HE present contribution is the concluding portion of my 
paper, the first part of which was published in January, 
1904. For local convenience the species are described in 
the same order as previously adopted in Trimen’s Flora of 
Ceylon. A reference to Hiern’s monograph for each species 
is also quoted. The synonyms for each species are not 
given since reference can always be made to those quoted in 
Hiern’s comprehensive monograph on the Ebenaceæ. 
In Part I. I explained that the flower systems were pre¬ 
viously imperfectly known, and the descriptions given by 
Trimen and Hiern are frequently inadequate on account of 
the limited supply of fresh material which those botanists 
had at their command. In Trimen’s Flora the staminal 
whorls of the male and female flowers, and often the 
accessory whorls, are not separately described. 
In many species the flowers or fruits are not described in 
Trimen’s Flora, but in several of these cases descriptions are 
obtainable from Hiern. 
The male and female flowers, timbers, fruits, seeds, and 
seedlings have now been obtained for every Ceylon species 
except D. Moonii, and many of them are described here 
for the first time from material obtained in this Island. 
[Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Vol. IL, Pt. II.. August, 1904.] 
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