84 WRIGHT : THB GJHTOS DIOSPYROS 
"irr possiwe to make a oom p ,ete 
end mum- t! 84106 tre6 ’ iaving staminate flowers at one 
j ’ thr »igh hermaphrodite to female flowers. 
** - - either male 
the^f^rclUifo^ Tf” tWS headi " g ’ 3nd th0ngh 
speeiea, yet obsemtlon 17. T e ° mm ° n f0rm for this 
revealed the ft. * ^ res ^ materi al in the forest has 
PolygamoBsstate^TheiT 1 ™ 066 ° f th6 monoecion8 and 
-ewers o f ^ 6 I h —Trr° nBiatfl ° f ^ 
male inflorescene Tht g d frmt ° n a P edicel ^ a 
is. unlike that in D 00 “ di ‘i<» in D. Ebennm 
female flowers do n ’*” lla ° r D ' “O’ 1 **, sine® the 
members of a moi ° 0CCTlr solitar y but as sporadic 
monoecious infloresIeneTlhe ^honlht eXamining SUCh 9 
mind was that here / ghfc n PPermost in my 
oenee, some members ofTlT 1 ” 08 a maIe inflo,,eB - 
dition of a potential mm • ° b ^ ad rever t®d to the con- 
in consequence of tto^T’ t bt “ ‘ hi8idea was abandoned 
When thus occurring P — . “? h of the female •“’’ere 
a barren anther and 3 • t 6lg ^ lt staminodes each with 
have true female flowe ei8ht ' Celled °' ary ' We therefore 
aa the males. *""" ■*-»*•* * the same cluster 
The female flowers may occur i„ 
cence, but the most usual 7 P art «* the inflores- 
inflorescence and ther^ P ° Sltl0n is that terminating the 
Since the central flower^ °? CUpying the central position, 
obtain a time relation in th ** formed We therefore 
flowers being produced first 1^“°“°" 0f * he <emale 
The production of f em l ema lo flowers afterwards, 
youngest leaves, and that 7th 7™ “ the axiI of the 
D. aonta and D. oppose! maies “ the older leaves in 
Wlth ^8. a sequence to be correlated 
In oonseqaenee of the 
described :a - * 
