5$8 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. EhretlCt. 



3. E. aspera. Willd. spec. i. 1077. Roxb. Corom. 1. 55. 

 Shrubby. Leaves ovate, above scabrous, below downy. 



Corymbs terminal, dichotomous. Drupe with a four-celled 

 nut. 



Teling. Tella-joflv*. 



A small bushy tree, a native of dry rocky barren places. 

 Flowers during the wet season. 



Trunk and larger branches covered with dark, rust-co- 

 loured bark ; young shoots downy. Leaves alternate, petiol- 

 ed, ovate, above scabrous, downy underneath, from two to 

 three inches long, and from one to two broad*. Petioles 

 channelled, about an inch long. Cornmbs terminal, globu- 

 lar, composed of dense, recurved, one-ranked spikes ; divi- 

 sions always two-forked. Flotvers very small, white. Calyx; 

 divisions ovate, outside downy. Corol ; tube gibbous. Style 

 two-cleft. Stigma simple. Berry the size of a grain of pep- 

 per, red, marked with four angular elevations corresponding 

 with the angles of the four-celled nut. Nut four-celled, or 

 by exposure four-partible, smooth. 



4. E. unijlora. R. 



Shrubby, twiggy. Leaves crowded, sub-sessile, oblong", 

 entire, hairy. Floioers solitary, sub-sessile. Drupe with four 

 one-celled nuts. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



5. E. setosa. R. 



Tender parts bristly. Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate. 

 Panicle terminal, composed of dichotomous, secund, recurv- 

 ed spikes. Drupe with four one-celled nuts. 



A native of the Island of Hamoa. 



6. E. buxifolia. Willd. i. 1079. R. Corom.pl. 1. N. 57. 



Shrubby. Leaves wedge-shaped, apex tridentate, scab- 

 rous. Peduncles from two-to six-flowered. Nuts five or six- 

 celled. 



