598 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  Elaeocarpus. 
mina fifty, bearded. DiApai, probably Julpai, is the ver- 
nacular name in Silhet, where itis indigenous, and grows 
to be a very large tree. Flowering time the beginning of 
the rains in June. : 
Young shoots slightly villous. Leaves alternate, petiol- 
ed, ovate-oblong, serrate, acuminate, smooth, thick, and 
of a hard texture, about six inches long, and three 
broad. Petioles about an inch long. Racemes axillary, 
and from those of the last year, solitary, simple, diverg- 
ing with a curve, villous, scarcely so long as the leaves. 
Flowers numerous, large, white, fragrant, pedicelled, 
drooping. Calyx of five lanceolate, hoary leaflets. Petals 
five, broad-cuneiform, with the exterior margin multifid. 
Nectarial glands five, large, villous. Filaments fifty, nine 
between each pair of glands, and one from the inside of 
the apex of each short. ;Anthers linear, gaping at the 
top, and somewhat bearded. Germ oval, three-celled, with 
two ovula in each attached to the axis. Style shorter than 
the petals. Stigma small, tri-dentate. Drupe oval, of the 
size of a pigeon’s egg, smooth, of a yellow olive colout, 
’ and pulpy; when ripe one-celled. Nut oblong, rugose, 
very hard, three-celled, and in time having three valves. 
Seed solitary, linear, oblong. © Perisperm conform to the 
seed, soft and oily. Embryo inverse, &c. as in the other 
species. 
6. E. lanceefolius. R. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolar, serrate, smooth. Stamina 
fifteen, bearded. Drupe long, turbinate, with a one-celled 
nut of nearly the same shape. 
‘Sufed-pai, is the vernacular name in Silhet, “where it 
grows to be a middling sized tree. Flowering time the 
beginning of the rains ; Khe fruit ripens in September ied 
October. 
Young shoots round and perfectly smooth. ‘Leaves: 
about the ends of the _—— alternate, short-pe 
