IN CEYLON. 
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Diospyros erumenata, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL, p. 179, 
n. 5(1860). Fl. B. Ind. III., 567. C. P. 2,438. Hiern, Mon. 
Eben, 169. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. Part VII., p. 26, t. 126 
(1871). 
A large evergreen tree, dioecious ; bark thick, black, 
rather scaly ; trunk erect, twigs glabrous. 
Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm. long, 25-50 mm. wide, oval- 
oblong, abruptly acuminate apex, rounded or narrowed at 
base, glabrous and shining, coriaceous, pellucid venation, net 
veins rather prominent ; petiole canaliculate above, 6-10 mm. 
long. Flowers March-August ; ripe fruits January-October. 
Male inflorescence consists of a pedicellate spreading cyme 
of 3-7 flowers. (See pi. VIII., fig. 1.) 
Flowers yellow, 15 mm. long, throat 4 mm. diameter, top 
of open flower 11 mm. diameter. Peduncle 3-10 mm. long, 
green, hairy ; ultimate pedicels 1-4 mm. long. 
Calyx green, cupuliform, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous inside ; 
segments 4, short or obscure. 
Corolla yellow, tubular, 14 mm. long ; segments 4, short, 
rounded apices, broad and recurved in open flower. 
Stamens 8-14, hypogynous, 4-6 mm. long ; anthers brown 
or yellow, attenuate, glabrous, 4-5 mm. long ; filaments 
white, glabrous, 1 mm. long, sometimes absent ; pollen 
yellow, circular. (See pi. VIII., fig. 2.) 
Pistil absent or rudimentary. 
Female flowers solitary, in axil of foliage leaves and 
usually limited to the lower part of young shoot ; approxi¬ 
mately spherical in bud, measuring 9 mm. diameter. 
Peduncle 5-10 mm. long, 2-5 mm. diameter ; two or more 
small caducous bracteoles occur on the peduncle, the first 
two forming an opposite pair at right angles to antero¬ 
posterior axis (cf. D. affinis). (See pi. VIII., fig. 3,) 
Calyx green, under surface hairy ; segments 4, accrescent 
in flower, acute apex ; margin becomes reflexed, and deep 
intersegmental pouches are formed after the flower has 
opened. 
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