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Pistil rudimentary, apiculate, hairy. 
• Female flowers solitary or as sessile clusters of 3-9 flowers 
in axils of leaves or on woody twigs; buds pubescent, 
globular, surrounded by two or three small deciduous bracts. 
(See pi. XV„ fig. 2.) 
Calyx segments 4-5, brown or green, pubescent, 3 mm. 
long, rounded or bluntly acute at apex. 
Corolla yellow, conical in bud, segments 4-5, shorter than 
tube. 
Staminodes 1-7, usually 4, sometimes absent, hypogynous 
or at base of corolla. 
Pistil green, pubescent; stigmas 2-4, green, reniform ; 
ovary pubescent, conical, 4-celled (see pi. XV., figs.. 4 and 5) 
Fruit globose, 2 cm. diameter, solitary, subsessile, 1-3-4,— 
usually 1 - seeded, glabrous; fruiting calyx enlarged, 
thickened, reflexed. Fruits ripe in March. 
Seeds hard, globose when solitary, wedge-shaped when 
numerous ; testa brown and superficially striated, 7 mm. dia¬ 
meter, 9 mm. long ; endosperm abundant, equable ; embryo 
white, 5 mm. long. (See pi. XV., fig. 3.) 
Seedlings epigeal; cotyledons detached early, testa does 
not split (c/. D. pruriens); cotyledons ovate, rounded base 
and apex, 4-6 mm. long ; hypocotyl white or yellow, thin, 
50-60 mm. long,' 2 mm- diameter ; epicotyledonary stem 
8 mm. long ; first epicotyledonary leaves form an opposite 
pair, ovate, hairy, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide ; traces 2 per coty¬ 
ledon which are not split to any great extent at the node and 
give a four-cornered appearance to the vascular cylinder in 
the hypocotyl, thus resembling D. montana and D. Ebenum ; 
epicotyledonary traces one per leaf, conspicuous in the 
ungerminated embryo, particularly the phloem. In the 
apex of the primary root there are only eight strands, which 
may be the result of the splitting of four cotyledonary 
or may consist of two epicotyledonary and six cotyledonary 
strands. 
Timber brown or dirty white or faint red in colour, 
inferior, sap wood and heartwood of very old trees possessing 
