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15 mm. long, 15 mm. wide at base, glabrescent or covered 
with long black unicellular hairs. 
Corolla wide-throated, 3-4-5-lobed, yellow; segments 
broad, 18 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, apices recurved, apex 
rounded or sub-acute. 
Staminodes 4, alternating with corolla segments, adnate 
to corolla tube, short, hairy ; sometimes 1-12 in number, and 
may possess fertile anthers. (See pi. IX., fig. 12.) 
Pistil globular-apiculate in bud, yellowish-green, and 
covered with multicellular glands borne on many-celled 
pedicels, forming a dense layer 1 mm. thick in bud ; styles 
4, hairy ; stigmas lobed and undulated ; ovary 8-celled, loculi 
in four pairs alternating with calyx segments, sometimes 6- 
celled in pentamerous and trimerous flowers ; fruiting calyx 
deeply 4-lobed, enlarged, strongly reflexed margin, woody, 
hairy or glabrous; fruit usually solitary, subsessile or. 
pedunculate, globular or ovoid, very large, 45 mm. high. The 
remnants of the multicellular glands, many of which are dead 
and changed to a brown or red colour, give the fruit a “ rusty 
mealy” appearance; carpellary wall pulpy and rich in 
gum and tannin (c/. D. crnmenata ; D. qusesita). (See 
pi. IX., fig. 6.) 
Seeds 4-8 per fruit, large, 15 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick, 25 ™m 
long;brown testa, elliptical-wedge shape; endosperm copious, 
white, equable; embryo white,large. (See pi. XVIII., fig. 7.) 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early in embryo and 
measure 16 x 9 mm., pale yellow, never green or assimilatory; 
hypocotyl 30-40 mm. long, yellow to green turning black ; 
epicotyledonary system shows enhanced development; 
epicotyledonary stem 35-40 mm. long, 2 mm. diameter, red, 
pubescent; first epicotyledonary leaves form a subopposite 
or opposite pair and persist alone for some time and carry 
on the assimilatory work allotted to cotyledons ; traces 3 per 
cotyledon, considerably split, continued into root. 
Timber usually white with occasional black strands ; sap- 
wood always white when freshly felled, but on exposure 
turns faintly brown ; black heartwood is very small even in 
