Elaeocarpus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 597 
Racemes below. the leaves, single. Stamina thirty, ter- 
minated by a single thread. Drupe oval; nut rugose, 
thin-edged, from one to two-celled. 
Bun Julpai, the vernacular name in Chittagong, where 
itis indigenous, and grows to a great size, witha scanty 
crown, Flowering time March; the seed ripens in June 
and July. 
Leaves about the ends of the branches, alternate, subses- 
sile, obovate-oblong, serrate, of a firm texture, smooth on 
both sides, except when very young, thin, and clothed 
with a little ferruginous down; from six to twelve inches 
long, and from four to six broad. Racemes numerous, 
under the leaves, and shorter than them, spreading nearly 
horizontally. Flowers large, long-pedicelled, drooping. 
Peduncles and pedicels clothed with dark ferruginous 
down. Bractes small, caducous. Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets 
lanceolate, on the outside downy. Petals five, subcunei- 
form, villous, with the apex irregular, and deeply cut into 
numerous filiform segments. Filaments thirty, short, in- 
serted round the base of the germ, into a villous receptacle. 
Anthers linear, crowned with a single thread. Germ su- 
perior, villous, grooved, two-celled, with about eight ovu 
la in each, attached in an imbricated order, in two ver- 
tical rows from their apices to the middle of the partitions. _ 
Style longer than the stamina. Stigma simple. Drupe 
obovate, of the size of a small pullet’s egg, smooth, of an 
olive yellow. Nut oblong, a little pointed, rngose, having 
the edges sharp, thick, hard, and tough, one, rarely two- 
celled. Seed solitary, oblong. Integument single, thick and 
brown. Perisperm conform to the seed, horny. Embryo 
inverse. Cotyledons very thin, oblong, three-nerved, nearly 
as broad and long as the perisperm. Plumula two-lobed. 
Radicle ovate, superior. 
he ‘E. pulnstan, R, 
_ Leaves oyate-nblane, serrate, acuminate, saint ‘Sta. 
