IN CEYLON. 
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mm. long, 20 mm. wide ; the bark is 10 mm. in thickness on 
branches 40 mm. diameter ; yonng twigs green, pubescent, 
become glabrous, white and shiny. 
. Leaves very variable in position and size; usually oppo¬ 
site, sometimes sub-opposite or alternate, often crowded at 
end of twig, 40-140 mm. long, 15-70 mm. wide, (on 
suckers the leaves are often 240 mm. long and 100 mm. 
wide), oblong-oval, rounded or obtuse apex, tapering base, 
pubescent when young, glabrous and shiny when old, 
under-surfaces duller green than upper ; venation reticulate, 
meshes wide, pellucid; lateral veins not very conspicuous 
above, prominent below; petiole green, glabrous or hairy, 
flat above, 4 mm. diameter, 15 mm. long. 
Male inflorescence usually consists of a dichasial cyme, 
3-7-flowered, similar to that described for D. sylvatica, D. 
Toposia, &c., and occurs in lower part of young shoot in 
axil of leaf or caducous bract; sometimes the lateral flowers 
do not arise in opposite pairs but at different levels suggest¬ 
ing a racemose type. pi. VIII., fig. 8). 
When the inflorescence is represented by a central flower 
only, the bracteoles are nevertheless present; the flowers 
which should occur in the axil of bracteoles in the plane of 
the antero-posterior axis are commonly absent. 
The main peduncle is pubescent, 3-11 mm. long, 2 mm. 
diameter ; pedicels of first pair of lateral flowers longer than 
those of second pair and measure 15 mm. in length and 2 
mm, in diameter; bracts and bracteoles long, pubescent, 
size gradually decreasing from bract to youngest bracteole. 
Male flowers in bud are green, pubescent, 5 mm. long, 
3 mm. diameter; open flower 13 mm. long ; there is much 
variation in the number and orientation of the members of 
accessory whorls and stamens. 
Calyx yellowish-green, pubescent, campanulate, 5-8 mm. 
long, 5 mm. diameter, occasionally very small; segments 
3-6 and accrescent, apex acute, 1*5-3 mm. in length. 
Corolla yellowish-white, narrow-throated, outside covered 
with silky hairs. 12 mm. long, 3 ] 
