Elvretia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAs 697 
Filaments in the’ mouth of the tube of the corol, and tather 
shorter than the border. Anthers ovate. Germ roundish, 
Style as long as the stamens, half two-cleft. Stigma obtuse. 
_ Drupes round, pulpy, when ripe red, and about the size of 
a pea. Nuts two-celled, they are flat on one side, and con- 
vex on the other. The above description is taken from trees 
sent to the Botanic garden by Dr. Glass, who:says the fruit 
is delicious. Plants of the same have also been received 
from Dr. Buchanan, but with him, about Lukshmeepoora 
where the tree is indigenous the fruit is not esteemed, indeed 
they have little orno pulp onthem. The others have but 
little, what they have is, however, palatable. Both now have 
been twelve years in the Botanic garden, The trees are about 
<a feet high, ramous, and stout in proportion, 
iD EB laevis. Willd. i, 1077. Roxb, Corom. 1. 56. ji 9 
Arboreous, Leaves ovate, smooth. Corymbs. ak 
composed of dichotomous, recurved, secund spikes, _—— 
with a four-partible nut. 
Teling. Seregada, 
The species grows to be a pretty large tree. Itis a native 
of the Circar mountains. 
Trunk erect; Bark ash-coloured. Branches numerous; 
nearly erect. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, some- 
times scolloped, pretty smooth, from three to four inches 
long, and two or three bréad. Corymbs lateral or axillary, 
two-forked, composed of thin, recurved, one-ranked spikes. 
Flowers white, small. 
The parts of fructification as in the last, except that ere 
the seeds or nuts are wrinkled onthe outside, The chief spe- 
cific difference is in the corymbs, there — are terminal, here 
lateral or axillary. — 
The wood of this tree i ie sles by. the hill: puipledbe'indhy 
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