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shorter than the leaves. Flowers white, shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted; lacinie linear, acute. Corolla 5- 
petaled, fimbriated at the summit. Nectary of 5 yellow 
retuse glands, surrounding the ovary. Stamens 15, erect, 10 
are inserted by pairs between the glands of the nectary, the 
remaining 5 between those glands and the ovary. Anthers 
linear, bilamellate at the summit. Style as long as the calyx. 
Stigma simple. Drupe globose, containing a 5-celled nut, 
which is rugose, and marked with 5 obtuse longitudinal 
ridges; in general only 1 cell is fertile, and contains a single 
seed. Seed furnished with albumen: embryo inverse, with flat 
cotyledons and superior radicle. 
Oss. This may, perhaps, be one of the smaller varieties 
of Ganitrus mentioned by Rumphius: it differs from E. 
Ganitrus of Roxburgh, who quotes Rumphius, v. 3. t. 10, in 
the number of the stamens, the position of the racemes, and 
the number of fertile cells in the nut. * Compare Adenoda - 
sylvestris, Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. which agrees in the number 
of its stamens. I suspect Geertner must have fallen into an - 
error in representing the embryo erect in his Ganitrus ; in this 
it is certainly inverse. 
MONOCERA.* W. J. 
. Exxocarri SPECIES. 
Caise 5-phyllus. Corolla 5-petala, petalis apice laciniatis, 
. Spe sericeis. Stamina plura, antheris apice dehiscenti- 
bus, unicornibus, valvula altera majore. Ovarium basi 
glandulis cinctum, Dimless ee Drupe nuce. 
1-2-sperma. .. 
This genus, whose chatacters appear riliceuly distinct, 
will include, besides the following i new species, several hitherto - 
referred to Eleocarpus, viz. E. Monocera, (Cavanilles,) the 
. separation of which has already been suggested, and of which 
the specific name may be appropriately adopted for the genus ; 
E. rugosus, E. aristatus, and E. bilocularis of Roxburgh; 
probably also E. grandiflora, and E. reticulata (Sir J. E. 
* ** See R, Brown's Prodromus —under Velleia, v. 1. p. 580.” 
