594 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  LElaeocarpus. 
the surface elegantly tubercled, and marked with five-equi- 
distant, deep grooves running from the apex to the base, 
five-celled. Seeds generally solitary, though sometimes two, 
when single, oblong, tapering most at the apex. Integu- 
ments two; the exterior one brown, hard, smooth,. and 
brittle ; the inner one grey, and membranaceous. — Peris- — 
perm conform to the seed, oily. Embryo inverse nearly as 
long and broad as the perisperm. Cofyledons oblong, thin, 
three-nerved. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle oblong, supe- 
rior. Gzertner has no doubt mistaken the apex of the drupe 
of this plant, for the base ; and if more proof is required, 
let me add of Elaeocarpus serratus also, where the em- 
bryo is also inverted, though the nut is never more than 
three-celled, that being the number of cells in the germ, and 
also my E. bilocularis, where the perisperm and embryo 
are the same, and the nut bilocular.: I am a very inferior 
judge of natural orders, but certainly think this cannot 
belong to the same order with Garcinia, in which 1 include 
Gambogia, and two species of Xanthochymus. If it does, 
I must despair of ever making any progress in this branch 
of the science. : 
2. _E, tuberculatus. R. : 
Leaves petioled, obovate-cuneate, remotely-serralate. 
Flowers racemed : stamina seventy-five, terminal by 
a thread. Drupe oval, nuts ovate, much:tubercled, thick- 
margined, two-celled. ee. 
Tam. Roodrach, or Ooderach. 4 
A tree, a native of the forests of Travancore, where, it 
blossoms about the beginning of the hot season. Dr. 
Berry of Madras, who has procured from Mr. George 
Young specimens and seeds of this’ sacred tree, SAYS _ 
_ the nuts are sold by the Sunyasees, or holy men, to the 
Hindoos, set in gold, and by them wore as a religious 
ornament, 
Leaves crowded. about the ends of the branchlets, i. 
