IN CEYLON. 
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Diospyros crumenata, Thw. Enum. Ceyl. PL, p. 179, 
n. 5 (1860). FI. B. Ind. III., 567. C. P.2,438. Hiern, Mon. 
Eben, 169. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. Part VII., p. 26, t. 126 
(1871). 
A large evergreen tree, dioecious; bark thick, black, 
rather scaly ; trunk erect, twigs glabrous. 
K Leaves alternate, 50-120 mm. long, 25-50 mm. wide, oval- 
oblong, abruptly acuminate apex, rounded or narrowed at 
base, glabrous and shining, coriaceous, pellucid venation, net 
veins rather prominent; petiole canaliculate above, 6-10 mm. 
long. Flowers March-August; ripe fruits January-October. 
Male inflorescence consists of a pedicellate spreading cyme 
of 3-7 flowers. (See pi. VIII., fig. 1.) 
II Flowers yellow, 15 mm. long, throat 4 mm. diameter, top 
of open flower 11 mm. diameter. Peduncle 3—10 mm. long, 
green, hairy; ultimate pedicels 1-4 mm. long. 
Calyx green, cupuliform, 5-10 mm. long, glabrous inside ; 
segments 4, short or obscure. 
Corolla yellow, tubular, 14 mm. long ; segments 4, short, 
rounded apices, broad and recurved in open flower. 
| Stamens 8-14, hypogynous, 4-6 mm. long; anthers brown 
or yellow, attenuate, glabrous, 4-5 mm. long; filaments 
white, glabrous, 1 mm. long, sometimes absent; pollen 
yellow, circular. (See pi. VIII., fig. 2.) 
Pistil absent or rudimentary. 
Female flowers solitary, in axil of foliage leaves and 
usually limited to the lower part of young shoot; approxi¬ 
mately spherical in bud, measuring 9 mm. diameter. 
Peduncle 5-10 mm. long, 2-5 mm. diameter; two or more 
small caducous bracteoles occur on the peduncle, the first 
two forming an opposite pair at right angles to antero¬ 
posterior axis (cf. D. affinis). (See pi. VIII., fig. 3.) 
Calyx green, under surface hairy ; segments 4, accrescent 
in flower, acute apex ; margin becomes reflexed, and deep 
intersegmental pouches are formed after the flower has 
opened. 
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