78 WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
Dioecious only.-J This condition prevails in D. Toposia, D. 
quaesita, D. pruriens, D. crnmenata, D. ovalifolia, D. Melan- 
oxylon, D. attenuata, D. montana, D. Moonii, and D. oocarpa. 
In these species the female flowers may be solitary or form 
a simple or complex dichasinm, having the stami nodes of 
each flower with barren anthers. The males may form a 
8688116 ° r <*""*** each flower of 
ta t /, P " abSent ’ *7 »r represented by a 
bench of hairs. It is highly probable that if more fresh 
material is examined at leas, the polygamons and very 
possible the monoecious condition will be observed. In 
m»yof the species included under this head the male 
to each i^L ayS Very nUmer0U8 ’ 0ften as many as fifteen 
andTc^t r e ’ and heMe the Ability of variation 
D.Sdt ”' In8 ° me0ftheSpe ° iM - 
male flowers is often o7«n ** MlU «* 
aection reveals the p^!“T DO ' 18 , 9i T’ a “ d * traMVeree 
Further it is not S , * '"^budy ontUned cavities, 
female flowers be eslmiL^T ** ‘ he 8taminode8 of ‘be 
grains. Very little material hast* ‘ h * y W “' yield pollen 
<aUy from this point of view beei1 o^mined microscopi- 
orita“h°e f ^rr f in ‘ he whorl and their 
maonmtimss^^^^ofttesamespeci™ 
female flower possesses T ? ? mstance ’ in D - qussita the 
the corolla lobes, whereat'^r^ 68 WhiCh alternate **** 
number of stamens ocem. i male flowers an indefinite 
the flower, and have no i l ******* together in the centre of 
or to the members Mentation to one another 
differences exist in the sta^in^ W ^ S ' Similarly, great 
lu D. Melanoxylon the stam' T °u ° f D * pruriens * 
both sexes, there being ten 8 * ? 18 Very unstable in 
male,sometimes withth!^ 81X ^ een ’ or t Wfi nty stamens in the 
Paire, and twelve at ° th - times united 
b * na * no fi «d orientation to the f ^ * *** female flower 
*>ry whorls. ° n *° the foi »-to seven-Iobed acces- 
