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Kuruwiti korale ; Ratnapura, Dotalankanda, Pasdun korale: 
Yagiralla, near Udugama; Nahitimukalana, Atakalankorale; 
Pennelmukalana, Madampe district, 
j The trees grow well on rocky, porons, damp slopes, rich 
in silica and iron ; they vary from 0*6 to 2*4 metres (2-8 feet) 
in circumference, and 12 to 24 metres (40-80 feet) in height. 
The largest specimen I have seen measured twelve metres 
(40 feet) before the first branch, total height 27*4 metres 
(90 feet), and breast height circumference of 2*4 metres 
(8 feet); this was a male tree, Yagiralla forest, 900 feet above 
sea level. 
Diospyros sylvatica, Raxb. Cor. PL, p. 37, t. 47 (1795) 
Sudu-kadumberiya, S ; Karuppu Thoveria, T. 
Alph. D.C. Prodr. VIII., p. 231. (1844). Thw. Enum. 178. 
C.P. 2,729, Fl.B. Ind. III,. 559 Bedd., Ic. Pl.Ind., Part VII 
p. 25, t. 121 (1871). Hiern, Mon. Eben. 161. 
A very large tree, attaining a circumference of 4 metres (13± 
feet) and height of 61 metres (200 feet), evergreen, dioecious 
and polygamous; trunk erect, buttressed at base, bark of twig 
shows coarse reticulation, bark of trunk blackish-gray, 
thick. Leaves alternate, 70-130 mm. long, 20-60 mm. wide! 
oval, acuminate apex, narrowed or rounded at base, glabrous 
or nearly so ; young leaves thin, old leaves coriaceous, deep 
green above, paler beneath ; venation reticulate, meshes 
wide, pellucid, midrib and veins depressed on upper side ; 
petiole flattened, feebly puberulous, 5-12 mm. long. 
Polygamous trees .—These are very similar to D. Gardneri 
and D. Ebenum. 
The seeds and seedlings from polygamous trees possess the 
same characters, anatomically and developmentally, as those 
obtained from pure female trees. All the flowers on these 
trees possess fertile stamens and a rudimentary or fertile 
pistil, those with fertile pistils being usually accompanied 
with larger accessory whorls. The absence of flowers with 
fertile pistils during the first few weeks of flowering has 
been noticed, and it seems quite probable that the production 
