82 : ELJEOCARPEJE. Er XoCARPUS. 
tion I-celled. Seeds 1 or 2 (rarely more?) in each cell. Albumen 
fleshy. Embryo inverted: cotyledons flat, foliaceous : radicle superior. 
— Leaves alternate or opposite, with deciduous stipules. Petals 3-lobed 
or fimbriated, rarely only emarginate. 
I. ELJEOCARPUS. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 459; Gaertn. fr. t. 43. 
Calyx 4-5-sepaled. Petals 4-5, glabrous on the back, cuneate, ciliated — — 
below, 3-5-cleft and laciniated towards the apex. Stamens 15-50, inserted 2 
into the upper and inner side of the glands of the torus: anther-valves equal, i 
obtuse, usually bearded at the tip with several short pellucid bristles. Ova- | 
rium surrounded at the base by 5 large glands, 3-celled: ovules 2 in each 
cell. Fruit a drupe: nut tubercled, 3-, or by abortion 1-celled ; seed soli- 
tary in each cell.— Trees orlarge shrubs. Leaves lanceolate, usually serrated. 
To this genus, formed for E. serratus, belongs De Candolle's Aceratium, the charac- 
ter he has given to Eleocarpus corresponding principally to Monocera. We incline 
with Jussieu to keep Ganitrus (El. Ganitrus, Roxb: distinet, on account of the 5- 
celled ovarium, with 4 ovules in each cell; with it E/. nitidus of Jack is a congener- 
Elbifidus, Hook. and Arn., and Dicera dentata, Forst., having 2- or 3-lobed peta and 
a 2-celled ovary, may also form the type of a genus, although the one has unequal 
pointed, and the other 2 retuse anther-valves: to the former, Acronidia Bl. is very 
closely allied. Dicera serrata Forst. has sometimes, if not always, unisexual flow- 
ers, and has little affinity with any genus we know except perhaps Aristotelia. De- 
cadia Lour. appears to be a species of Symplocos. 
_ 295. (1) E. serratus (Linn. :) arborescent : leaves petioled, alternate, el- 
liptical, obtuse, bluntly serrated ; nerves with glands in their axils and at 
most of their subdivisions: petioles with a small gland on each side near the 
apex : racemes simple, from the axils of the present year’s leaves, and scarcely 
so long: stamens 20-30 ; anther-valves bearded: drupes oblong ; nut oblong, 
very hard, indehiscent, prominently tubercled, 1-celled, 1-seeded.— Linn. sp. 
pl. p. 734; Sm.! in Rees’ eycl.; Spr. syst. 2. p. 449 (bad as to numb. of 
stam.) ; Wall.! L. n. 2666. f; Wight! cat. n. 290.—E. integrifolius, Lam. ill. 
t. 459; DC. prod. 1. p. 519% Spr. I. e——Malabar, Travancore. : 
De Candolle’s character of this species, with the synonyms of Rumphius 
and Geertner belong to the genus Ganitrus: the plant he saw in Burmann 8 
herbarium, to the next species. In E. integrifolius, Lam., the serratures are 
more shallow than usual. 
296. (2) E. oblongus (Gærtn. :) arborescent: leaves petioled, alternate, 
elliptic-oblong, pointed, with blunt and often shallow serratures ; nerves 
with glands in some of the axils, or often without any: petioles with a sm 
gland on each side near the apex : racemes simple, from the axils of the fallen 
leaves, and considerably shorter than them: stamens 30-40; anther-valves 
beardless: drupes oblong ; nut oblong, very hard, indehiscent, prominently 
tubercled, 1-celled, 1-seeded—Gertn. fr. t. 43 ; Sm.! in Rees’ cycl.; DC- 
prod. 1. p. 519.—E. Perim-Kara, DC. l. e-—Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 24 (bad); — 
Burm. Zeyl. t. 40; Rumph. Amb. 3. t. 102 (bad).—2 ; leaves very shortly 
pointed: racemes about two-thirds of the length of the leaves ; pedicels 
stout.— Wight ! cat. n. 291.—£ ; leaves with a longish acumination, twice as 
long as the racemes ; pedicels slender.— Wight ! cat. n. 293.——z ; Neelgher- 
ries, 8; Southern provinces, mam 
Of the synonym of Smith we feel certain ; and we have little doubt as to 
Rumphius, that author nowhere saying that the leaves are entire, but 
the margins are “ obscurely and amply toothed."— E. serratus, Roxb.! (f. 
Ind. 2. p. 596, and E. I. C. mus. tab. 951), Wall.! L. n. 1666. a, c, ^, aD 
apparently also of Blume, is a closely allied species to the present, ing 
the same foilage, but differing by the anthers bearded, by the indehiscent 
