638 pentandrta monogynia. Elceodendrum. 



long, by one or two broad. Stipules none. Petioles cylin- 

 dric, somewhat villous. Panicles one from each of the lower 

 axills, nearly as long as the leaves, very ramous and spread- 

 ing ; like the young shoots very downy. Flowers numerous, 

 minute, caducous. Bractes very minute, caducous. Calyx 

 five-parted, small, downy on the outside ; segments rounded. 

 Petals five, oval, concave. Nectary urceolate, rather 

 shorter than the petals, mouth five-toothed. Filaments five, 

 very short, inserted on the inside of the bottom of the belly 

 of the nectary. Anthers sagittate, and completely hid in 

 the nectary. Germ semi-superior, three-celled; cells with 

 one or two ovula attached to the axis. Style short and thick. 

 Stigma turbinate, truncate, six-grooved. Berry round-oval, 

 rather more than an inch in diameter, three celled, contain- 

 ing seldom more than one fertile seed, most of the ovula be- 

 ing in general abortive. Cortex firm, rather dry, covered 

 with a rough, brownish gray mealiness. Seed solitary, oval, 

 inserted in a complete thick, fleshy, lucid, edible aril, like 

 that of the Lichee of China. Integument single, brown, ad- 

 hering more firmly to the aril than the seed. Peri sperm none. 

 Embryo transverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, equal 

 with the surface, furrowed. Corculum transverse, hairy. 

 Radicle short, pointing to the umbilicus. 



ELMODENDRUM. Schreb. gen. N. 385. 

 Corol five-petalled. Germ two-celled, two-seeded ; attach- 

 ment inferior. Drupe superior, oval. Nut two-celled. Em- 

 bryo erect, without perisperm. 



1. E. glaucum. Persoon. Synops. ii. 241. Roxb. Corom. 

 ii. 2. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, serrate. Panicles axillary, di- 

 chotomous. Drupes spherical. 



Schrebera albens. Wit Id. spec. i. 1092. 



Celastrus glancus. Vahl. symb. ii. 42. 



