IN CEYLON. 
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I Pistil absent or rudimentary, flat disc, 2 mm. diameter, 
I undulating, exhibits locular structure. 
I Female flowers solitary, or as a cyme of 3 flowers on 
peduncle of varying length ; pedicels of each flower short, 
bracteate. (See pi. XI., fig. 8). 
Calyx green, 12 mm. diameter ; segments 3-4-5, rounded 
apex, 8 mm. long. 
I Corolla yellowish-white, 11 mm. long; segments 4. 
rounded apex, 3 mm. long. 
Staminodes 4, epipetalous, alternating with corolla seg¬ 
ments, glabrous, white. 
Pistil 3 mm. long, 2 mm. diameter ; stigmas 3, deep green, 
glabrous ; ovary 6-celled, broad base, tapering apex, green, 
glabrous. 
Fruit globose, smooth, dark gray, 12-20 mm. high, 10-15 
mm. diameter; fruiting calyx enlarged, flat or accrescent, 
thin and not woody, 15-20 mm. diameter. 
Seeds 2-4-6 per fruit, 14 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, 6 mm. 
thick ; ovate or globose in shape; testa brown, streaked ; 
endosperm abundant, strongly ruminate and very rich in 
tannin ; embryo white and small, 6 mm. long. (See pi XI 
fig. 7). 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons persistent. The whole or 
greater part of the endosperm is absorbed before the testa 
splits ; epicotyledonary system does not appear until several 
weeks, and in one case five months after cotyledons mature. 
Cotyledons cordate, rounded base, tapering obtuse apex, 
glabrous, 25 mm. long; hypocotyl red, glabrous, thin, 80 mm. 
long ; epicotyledonary stem very short and developed at a 
late stage; epicotyledonary leaves —first leaf appears about 
1 mm. above cotyledonary node, second about 2 mm. above 
first; alternate, deep green, tapering strongly towards base, 
rounded apex, venation feebly pellucid, 20 mm. long, 11 mm. 
maximum width; traces two per cotyledon, xylem splits 
forming 8-15 groups ; one trace per epicotyledonary leaf, not 
prolonged into root. Below the collet most seedlings show a 
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