IN CEYLON. 
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Corolla yellow, outside covered with short white hairs, 
16 mm. long when unopened, diameter of open flower at top 
; 20 mm.; segments 4, rarely 3, rotate, tapering acute apex, 
t 10 mm. long. 
| Staminodes 4, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments ; 
in one case there were eight separate staminodes each typical 
in form and having barren anthers ; anthers barren, brown, 
tapering apex but not apiculate, 2 mm. long; filaments 
white, glabrous, 1*5 mm. long. 
|r Pistil with 4 stigmas, yellowish-watery appearance, thin 
and undulating ; style stout, 4 mm. long, 1*5 mm. diameter ; 
ovary small, greenish, nearly glabrous, 8-celled, the loculi of 
adjacent pairs becoming grouped opposite the middle of 
calyx segments. 
Fruit solitary, terminates young shoot, ovoid-attenuate, 
30 mm. long, 12 mm. diameter, green, glabrous. Some fruits 
have a broad base and taper quickly towards apex; others 
are narrow at base and strongly attenuate at apex ; fruiting 
calyx woody, enlarged, forming deep cup for fruit, total 
length 18 mm., cup 18 nlm. diameter. (See pi. VI., fig. 2). 
Seeds 2-5 per fruit, wedge-shaped having convex surface 
in contact with carpellary wall, tapering strongly towards 
both ends ; 28 mm. long, 10 mm. wide ; testa brown, smooth ; 
endosperm copious, horny, equable. 
Embryo white. 
Timber .—Regarding the wood from this species, Trimen 
states (Vol. III., p. 101) that according to Thwaites the 
timber resembles true ealamander, but that the tree 
requires more careful examination and is almost unknown. 
The Sinhalese name is the same as that applied to ealamander. 
My experience does not confirm this. The timber when 
freshly felled is white or dirty white in colour, with a hollow 
decayed centre. Young trees 75 mm. (3 inches) diameter 
are invariably hollow in the centre, and large trees measur¬ 
ing 480 mm. diameter possess only a narrow peripheral band 
of dirty white living wood, the central and median portions 
