596 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Elaeoccirpus. 



3. E. serratus. Willd. 2. 1169. 



Leaves alternate, broad -laiiceolar, serrate. Stamina 

 thirty, bearded. Drupes oblong. Nut porous, \vith three- 

 cells. 



Periu Kara. Rheed. Mai. 4. t. 24. 



Beug. Julpai, the name it is known by in the gardens 

 at Calcutta. 



This small tree is now common in the Company's Bo- 

 tanic garden. It is a native of the interior provinces, 

 towards the mountains. It flowers during the hot season. 



Leaves spreading about the extremities of the branch- 

 lets, alternate, pctiokd, oblong, serrate, smooth, of a 

 shining green on both sides, from four to live inches long. 

 Petioles nearly round, smooth, an inch and a half long. 

 Stipules minute. Racemes solitary, simple, just below 

 the leaves of the present } car's shoots, or from the axills 

 of the fallen leaves. Flowers \ ery numerous, small, white, 

 surrounding every part of the raceme, all pointing to the 

 earth. Bractes most minute. Calyx live-leaved. Petals 

 live, wedge-formed, beautifully fringed. Nectary, five large 

 iieshy glands surrounding the base of the j^erui. Fila- 

 ments thirty, inserted into the upper and inner sides of the 

 neclarial glands. Anthers linear, with the apex bearded. 

 Germ superior, round. Style single, pointed, as long as the 

 corol and stamens. Drupe size of a large olive, and very 

 much like one, even in colour when ripe. Nut very hard, 

 pointed, oblong, smooth, with three equi-distant spurious 

 sutures, that do not open, smooth, except for small pits 

 like those of the almond, but smaller, three-celled. Seeds 

 oblong, smooth. 



W ilhout success I have tried to extract oil from the 

 fruit. They are dried and used in curries by the natives, 

 and also pickled. 



4. E. rugosus. R. 



Leaves subsessile, obovatc-oblong, serrate, smooth. 



