WRIGHT: THE GENUS DIOSPTROS 
—- , __ other cases 10-18 arranged in pairs and singles 
without fixed orientation ; anthers unequal, reddish-brown, 
apiculate, apex well pointed with long unicellular hairs to 
disseminate the pollen, average length 3 mm.; filaments 
yellowish-white, glabrous, 1*5 mm. long ; pollen yellow, 
even outline, circular, feebly granular contents. 
Pistil rudimentary disc, apiculate, densely pubescent. 
The female flowers occur solitary, or as a cyme in the axil 
of foliage leaves; when solitary the flower is surrounded 
with an involucre of small braeteoles suggesting 3-7-flowered 
inflorescences; braeteoles with hairy midrib, acute apex, 
9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. (See pi. XVI., fig. 2). 
Calyx brown, pubescent, campanulate in flower measuring 
10 mm. in depth ; segments 5, tapering apex, slightly reflexed 
margin, undulating intersegmental groove, pubescent. 
Corolla yellowish-white, 10 mm. diameter, corolla throat 
wide; segments 5, rotate, acute apex, half of undersurface 
densely pubescent. 
Stammodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments, 
filaments attached near apex of throat; anthers barren, 
brown,apiculate with silky brown attenuate hairs as inmale ; 
filaments white, very short. Pistil with 2 stigmas, yellowish- 
white, style absent; ovary globose-apiculate covered with 
dense coating of brown hairs, 4-celled, one ovule in each cell. 
Fruit globose-apiculate covered with long brown hairs 
when young, but tending to become glabrous when old, 30 
mm. ong, 60 mm. circumference ; fruiting calyx not much 
enlarged. (See pi. XVI., fig. 5 ). 
Seeds 2 per fruit, oval-elliptical iu shape, with strongly 
teaked micro pyle ; 18 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick ; 
brown, transversely striated; endosperm abundant, 
ruminate. (See pi. XVI., fig. 6) . * 
JrTJ inffS epig6al; C ° tyled(ms dr °P’ usually only after 
t 1D ^ a8 a whlte landn a, void of palisade tissue, for one 
chloiJL During thia time th ®y never develop any 
y though the enhanced epicotyledonary leaves 
