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V 110. E. floccosa, 5*?6?f7. Fl. Sylv. t. 200; young branches densely floe- 

 €088, leaves ovate or suborbicular sometimes lanceolate obtiise densely floccose at 

 length glabrous except on the ribs minutely dotted beneath coriaceous, edges 

 levolute, flowers terminal in very short few-flowered cymes or solitary and large, 

 calyx coriaceous densely pilose furnished at the base with 2 large bracteoles, 

 petals exceeding the calyx-lobes white hairy at the back, fruit large size of 

 a pigeon's ^^g densely woolly crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes, ^ 



8; TiXNEVELLY Ghats above Calcad, 3-4000 ft., Beddome. 



A large and beautiful tree. Leaves very thick, 3-5 by 2-3J in. ; nerves quite 

 uiconspicuous except in dried specimens, pen ni nerved, with the usual marginal looping 

 or occasionally 3-nerved at the base, the two lateral nerves not prominent ; petiole 

 aeosely floccose, ^-§ in. Flowers about 1 in. diam. DisJc large, subglobose, woolly. 



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flowers nearly sessile clustered in terminal heads at the extremities of short 

 aoortive bmnches or axillarv and solitary or few to*?ether, fruit globose 1-2- 



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NiLGHiRi and Kurg Mts., Mimro. 

 ' A shrub with stout terete branchlets ; young parts clothed with white pubescence. 

 Uaves 1^-2J by f-l| in., coriaceous, glabrous, shining above ; dots minut^, pellucid ; 

 lateral nerves slender, prominent, uniting within the margin; petiole \-\ in. Calyx- 

 fttw campanulate, silky-pubescent; lobes 4, broad, persistent, ciliate. FetaU oblong, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Berries about \ in. in diameter.— Judging from the 

 specimen in Wight's Herbarium it seems to be closely allied to E. elUptica, Lam., of 

 ™ich it is perhaps only a variety : the leaves are rather longer petioled and the 

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'Allied to this is E. buxifnlia, Lam., a native of the Mauritius. 



11^. E. luclda, Lam, Diet. iii. 203; young parts and inflorescence 

 covered with light-coloured cottony pubescence, leaves petioled broadly obovate 

 ?r nearly orbicular revolute at the edges very coriaceous, flowers large solitary 

 ^ the axils or collected 3 or 4 together at the ends of the former year's branches 

 ^ mth 2 small subacute bracts, calyx-lobes rounded, unequal. Jossinia lucida, 

 ^t. Prodr. iii. 237. E. cotiuifolia, Jacq. Obs. iii. 3 t. 63 in part E. hypo- 

 pea, Thmites MSS. C.P. 3864 ^' 3865; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, Anal. Gen. cxii. 

 ^yrtus cotiuifoha, J^reny. Syst. ii, 481 in part M. Oommersonii, S^^eny. 



:" Ceylon; Wattekelle Hill, 5000 ft. alt., Thwaites.—DisriuB. Bourbon, Mauritius. 

 ^J^^^es li-2 by 1-1| in,; nerves indistinct above, slender beneath and uniting 

 T'jnin the margin; petiole about i in. Flowers upwards of an inch in diam. Pedicels 

 t^n.orless. Calyx-tithe \ in. *' Fruit obovate or globose glabrous crowned with 

 ^ ODt^se calyx-lobes " (Decandolle, 1. c). 



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1. ^^3. E, macrosepala, Buthie) leaves petioled ovate or oblong-lanceo- 

 ^^ subacute at the base obtusely acuminate or sometimes rounded at each end 



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 t^ng narrowly lanceolate acute exceeding the obtuse petals. 



3 -i^PP^r branches stout, terete or compressed at the nodes ; bark brownish. Leaves 

 ^ ^ ^^^5 '°-' shining a little above and of a reddish tinge; nerves inconspicuous 

 J, slender but prominent beneath uniting witliin the margin. Calyx-lobes clothed 

 W^ ^'^S spreading white hairs. Tetds ovate, pilose at the back and ciliate at the 





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