Elaeocarpus. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIAL 599 
broad-lanceolar, serrate, rather obtuse, pointed, smooth 
on both sides, from four to six inches long, and scarcely 
two broad. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, and from 
those of the last year, solitary, diverging with a curve, 
rather shorter than the leaves. Flowers alternate, pretty 
long-pedicelled, recurvate, small, white. Calyx five-leav- 
ed; leaflets lanceolate. Petals five, cuneiform; exterior 
margin deeply laciniate. Nectarial glands five, large, 
embracing the lower part of the germ. Filaments fifteen, 
short, two between the nectaria] glands and one from 
the inside of the apex of each of them. Anthers linear, 
gaping at top, and there somewhat bearded. Germ ovate, 
three-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the axis. 
Style the length of the corol. Stigma small, three-toothed. 
Drupe long, turbinate, of the size and appearance of a 
large olive, smooth, when ripe of a greenish yellow, 
one-celled. Nut sub-clavate, turbinate, tapering most to- 
wards the base, and having there a superficial perfora- 
tion, one-celled, three-valved. Perisperm conform to the 
seed, Embryo inverse. Cotyledons cordate-lanceolate. 
Radicle superior. : 
7. E. aristatus. R. 
_ Leaves petioled, oboyate-cuneate, obtuse, and obtuse- 
ly serrulate. Racemes axillary. Stamina from forty-five 
to fifty, awned. Drupe oval, nut generally one-celled. 
Ran dulia is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 
is indigenous, and grows to be a tree of very considerable 
magnitude. Flowering time in April, and the fruit ripens 
in August. 
Young shoots thick, and rather sends with a few hairs, 
which soon disappear by the wind, friction, &c. Leaves 
alternately crowded about the ends of the branchlets, 
petioled, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, and obtusely serrulate, 
smooth on both sides, and firm in texture ; from. four: to 
six anes, long and from two to three broad. . si i 
