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"WRIGHT : THE GENUS DIOSPYROS 
Calyx green, pubescent, irregularly lobed ; segments 4-5, 
accrescent, acute apex, 36 mm. long. 
Corolla yellow, with narrow throat, diameter of mature 
flower 5 mm.; segments 4^5, overlapping in bud with exposed 
half externally pubescent, become horizontal when flower 
mature, acute apex. 
Stamens 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments; 
anthers brown, glabrous, apiculate, 2*5 mm. long; filaments 
white, short; pollen yellow, smooth, circular. 
Pistil central rudimentary. 
Female inflorescence consists of a sessile cluster of flowers 
the axil of a leaf, fewer than male, never solitary except 
falling away of young flowers; bracteoles as in male. 
Calyx, larger than in male; segments 4-5, covered with 
long brown unicellular hairs, 10 mm. long, accrescent in 
bud with feeble intersegmental pouch. 
Corolla yellow, thick ; segments 5, acute apex. 
Staminodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla seg¬ 
ments : anthers brown, barren, apiculate, glabrous, 2 mm. 
long ; filaments white, glabrous, 0*3 mm. long. 
Pistil brown, thickly coated with unicellular hairs which 
persist in ripe fruit (of. D. Moonii, D. Thwaitesii) ; stigmas 1, 
sessile ; ovary globose-apiculate, 8-celled (c/. D. Thwaitesii). 
Fruit broadly globose-ovoid, apiculate, 30 mm. high, 70 
mm. in circumference, hairs detached only with difficulty; 
fruiting calyx persistent, enlarged, flattened, thick, margins 
much reflexed and undulated, segments 15 mm. long. 
Seeds 1-8, usually 6 per fruit, elliptical-wedge-shaped with 
beaked micropyle, 20 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, 9 mm. thick ; 
testa brownish-black, prominently striated transversely; 
endosperm copious, horny, ruminate ; embryo white, 10-14 
mm. long. (See. pi. XV., %. 11-12). 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicotyle- 
donary system enhanced developmental^ and can be seen 
y e naked eye in the seed ; cotyledons white, long and 
narrow, measuring when mature 18 mm, in length and 6 mm. 
