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WRIGHT : THU GENUS DIOSPYROS 
Corolla yellowish-white, 15 mm. high, tubular, throat 
somewhat constricted, basal part swollen ; segments 4, 
rotate, rounded apices, undulated margins, tomentose on 
both sides. 
Staminodes 8, epipetalous, opposite and alternate with 
corolla segments, 3 mm. long; anthers barren, glabrous, not 
apiculate but apex shows signs of bifurcation; filaments 
white and glabrous. (See pi. VIII., fig. 4.) 
Pistil greenish-yellow, pubescent; stigmas 4, fleshy, 
short; ovary 8-celled. 
Fruit, green, 25-40 mm. diameter, 40 mm. long, depressed- 
globose, apiculate, glabrous or nearly so ; 8-celled, loculi 
opposite and alternate with calyx segments. (See pi. VIII., 
fig. 5.) 
Fruiting calyx enlarged, woody, flattened, intersegmental 
areas are straightened and outline of calyx is tetrahedral 
(cf. D. insignis). 
Seeds 1-8 in each fruit, flattened and elliptical, 45 mm. 
long, 20 mm. wide, 11 mm. thick; testa umber-brown, 
shining; endosperm copious, ruminate; embryo white, 
24 mm. long. 
Seedlings epigeal, cotyledons detached early, epicoty- 
ledonary axis wel} developed; cotyledons white, feebly 
petiolate, 16 mm. long, 7 mm. wide ; kypocotyl white and 
cylindrical, changing to black and four cornered, 110 mm. 
long, 3 mm. diameter; ejricotyledonary stem red, hairy, 
15 mm. long; traces 3 per cotyledon, much splitting of 
xylem in collet area ; one epicotyledonary trace per leaf 
continued into root, rarely shows splitting of xylem. 
Timber .—This is of medium quality and belongs to the red 
kind. The red colour intensifies from without inwards and 
local black strands occur here and there. The coloured 
heartwood is not usually large ; some specimens, however, 
yield a large black and brown streaked heartwood of 
considerable beauty and value. The sapwood is much less 
durable than the heartwood, in consequence of the wide 
