600 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Elaeocarpus. 
about an inch long, with a very few short hairs scat- 
tered over them. Stipules subulate, hairy, caducous. 
Racemes axillary, drooping and spreading, of the length 
of the leaves, a little hairy. Flowers few, long-pedicelled, 
generally drooping, large, yellow, and fragrant. Calyx of 
five, lanceolate, hairy, villous leaflets. Petals five, cu- 
neiform, having the exterior margin deeply laciniate, very 
hairy, particularly on the outside; the hairs white, de- 
pressed, and pointing forward. Wilaments regularly from 
forty-five to fifty, short, smooth, and slender, inserted in 
five, scarcely distinct bundles, on the top of the hairy 
receptacle. Anthers linear, opening at the top, the exte- 
rior lip of this mouth is continued into a pretty long, 
simple, straight arista. Germ ovate, very hairy, and 
elevated on the usual receptacle, which is here very hairy, 
two-celled, with from ten to twelve ovula in each, attach- 
ed in two vertical, rows, to the middle of the partition. 
Style subulate. Stigma acute. Drupe the size, shape, 
and colour of a large olive. Nut oblong, both ends pointed, 
having a pretty large rib on each of the flattened sides 
running from the base of the apex, one, rarely two-celled, 
surface a little rugose, texture both hard and tough. Seed 
solitary, oblong, flat. Integument single, thick, hard, 
and of a dark brown. Perisperm conform to the seed, 
cartilaginous. Embyo inverse. Coiyledons as: much ex- 
tended as the perisperm, oblong, very thin, ——e 
Radicle oval, superior. © 
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Leaves long-petioled, broad-lanceolar, fompieher serrate, 
meas two minute glands at the base, 
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