GENUS DTOSPYROS 
148 WRIGHT : THE 
point was a third anther disposed introrsely on a short fila¬ 
ment, and above this, terminating the connate gronp, was 
the outermost and fourth anther, introrse, on a filament 2 mm. 
One flower contained six groups of 4, and two groups of 
2 stamens; the fusion of the filaments suggests a relation¬ 
ship to D. pruriens and D. Embryopteris; anthers white 
or hrown, glabrouB, apiculate; filaments glabrous, except 
near anther. (See pi. XIII., fig. 6.) 
Pistil rudimentary, green flattened hairy disc. 
Female flowers (see pi. XIII., figs. 2 and 3) are solitary, 
subBessile, in axil of foliage leaf or caducous bract; bracts 2, 
green, pubescent, forming on the short peduncle an opposite 
pair at right angles to antero-posterior axis. 
Calyx green, cup-shaped, 3 mm. deep, with horizontal or 
descending segments; segments 3-4, 9 mm. long, acute 
apex, glabrous or nearly so. 
Corona yellowish-white, total length 15 mm., throat wide ; 
segments 3-4, rotate, broad, 9 mm. long, rounded apex, 
recurved when mature. 
Staminodes 8, flattened, epipetalouB, opposite and alternate 
to corolla segments ; anthers 1-5 mm. long, yellow or white 
deltoid, apiculate, hairy apex; filaments white, glabrous, 
broad base, 2 mm. long. 
Pistil with green or yellow style; stigmas 4-5-lobed ; 
ovary green, glabrous, 8-celled. 
Fruit depressed, globose or subglobose, apiculate, glabrous, 
green , fruiting calyx forms an enlarged shallow woody cup 
lined with pedicellate glandular and also unicellular hairs; 
the margin becomes recurved and segments project out- 
