596 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Elaeocarpus, 
3. E. serratus. Willd. 2.1169. 
Leaves alternate, broad-lanceolar, serrate. Stamina 
thirty, bearded. Drupes oblong. Nut porous, with three- 
cells. 
Perin Kara. Rheed, Mal. 4. t. 24. 
_ Beng. Julpai, the name it is known by in the ioe 
at Calcutta. . 
This small tree is now common in the Company’s Bo- 
tanic garden, Itis a native of the interior provinces, 
towards the mountains. It flowers during the hot season. 
Leaves spreading about the extremities of the branch- 
lets, alternate, petioled, oblong, serrate, smooth, of a 
shining green on both sides, from four to five inches long- 
Petioles nearly round, smooth, an inch and a half long. 
Stipules minute. Racemes solitary, simple, just below 
the leaves of the present year’s shoots, or from the axills 
of the fallen leaves. Flowers very numerous, small, white, 
surrounding every part of the raceme, all pointing to the 
earth. Bractes most minute. Calyx five-leaved. Petals 
five, wedge-formed, beautifully fringed. Nectary, five large 
fleshy glands surrounding the base of the germ. — Fila- 
‘ments thirty, inserted into the upper and inner sides of the 
nectarial glands. Anthers linear, with the apex bearded. 
Germ superior, round, Style single, pointed, as long as the 
corol and stamens. Drupe size of a large olive, and very 
much like one, even in colour when ripe. Nut very hard, 
pointed, oblong, smooth, with three equi-distant spurious 
sutures, that So not open, smooth, except for small pits 
like those of the almond, but smaller, three-celled. Seeds 
oblong, smooth, 
Without success I have tried to extract oil from the 
fruit. They are dried and used in curries by the nalts 
and also — ae 
4, E. rugosus, R. 
Leaves - subsessile, obovate-oblong, serrate, ssnooth. 
