WRIGHT: THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
Sex. 
According to Hiem the genus Diospyros is characterized 
by dioeeious flowers, and only rarely is a polygons or 
monoecious state to be observed. It is further stated that 
when such departures from the dioecious condition do occur 
they do so only casually, and one is left to infer that the 
vanatron is one to be explained on individual grounds and is 
not of specific importance. 
'T rfeCtly kn0wn ’ describes 
170, and of these only 7 per cent, are recorded by himself 
or outers as showing a departure from the dimeious con- 
of A t —t T'°, f0mied “ ^ the whole 
Confining ourselves to the 
Diosnvros we A J, Ceylon representatives of 
Snd Tri ““ «- 
flowers were oTT by ^“us flowers, and that the 
the departure from T »^itcs noted 
species, and stated that in D. a^feuheflowera “ ^ ° f 0,lr 
sometim ”^1“^ withVe^.^ ^ ^ " 
material at ***“ *" that * he 
nation has been made .pen^rbZ^^ " * he 
which had been collected some tim 6peClmens or material 
called “ male - flowers of D ^ * the so- 
external character indicative c f a * e ” there is ve, T little 
material, and it is only bv P iatil in the fresh 
fruits may be seen. mUed obse rvation that ripe 
samons flo^r^f■■*:poly- 
