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Elaeocarpus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 595 
ternate, petioled, long, ovate-cuneate, remotely serrulate, 
obtuse, smooth on the upper side, somewhat hairy, parti- 
cularly the rib and veins underneath, from six to twelve 
inches long, by three or four broad. Petioles one-sixth of 
the length of the leaves, round, a little hairy. Stipules 
conical, hairy. Racemes from the axills of the former 
year’s fallen leaves, single ; twice the length of the peti- 
oles. Pedicels alternate, drooping, one-flowered. Brac- 
‘tes lanceolate, villous, caducous, one under the insertion 
of each pedicel. Flowers larger than in any of the other 
species I have yet met with. Calyx five-leaved. Leaflets 
lanceolate, downy on both sides, more than half of the 
length of the petals. Petals five, unciform, very hairy 
on both sides; exterior margins deeply divided into nu- 
merous capillary segments. Filaments numerous, viz. 
from seventy to eighty, short, inserted into the receptacle, 
round the base of the germ, very hairy. Anthers linear, 
much longer than the filaments, and terminated by a 
single, long, capillary point. Germ superior, ovate, a 
little compressed, very hairy, two-celled, with about eight 
seeds in each, disposed in two vertical rows, and attached 
to the partitions. Style rather longer than the stamina. 
Stigma acute, simple. Drupe oval, smooth, of the size of a 
small apple ; in the dry state, in which only I have seen it, 
covered with a considerable portion of a friable substance 
under the thin, tender, smooth cortex. — Nut ovate, or 
oval, compressed, much tubercled on each of the flat sides, 
having an elevated sulcate ridge from the apex to the base, 
which marks where the two valves separate, of a tough, 
hard, ligneous texture, two-celled, though one is very often 
abortive, two-valved ; partitions contrary. Seed generally 
solitary, rather thin, long-ovate. Integuments uncertain. 
Perisperm conform to the seed, horny. Embryo yery 
nearly aslong and broad as the perisperm, inverse. _ Co- 
tyledons thin, three-nerved, Radicle sub-cylindric, sap 
rior. 
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