598 poLYANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Elaeocarpus. 



miua fifty, bearded. D/dpai, probably Julpai, is the ver- 

 nacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous, and grows 

 to be a very large tree. Flowering time the beginning of 

 the rains in June. 



Young shoots slightly villous. Leaves alternate, petiol- 

 ed, ovate-oblong, serrate, acuminate, smooth, thick, and 

 of a hard texture, about six inches long, and three 

 broad. Petioles about an inch long. Racemes axillary, 

 and from those of the last year, solitary, simple, diverg- 

 ing with a curs'e, villous, scarcely so long as the leaves. 

 Flowers numerous, large, white, fragrant, pedicelled, 

 drooping. Calyx of fiive lanceolate, hoary leaflets. Petals 

 five, broad-cuneiform, with the exterior margin multifid. 

 Nectarial glands five, large, villous. Filaments fifty, nine 

 between each pair of glands, and one from the inside of 

 the apex of each short. Anthers linear, gaping at the 

 top, and somewhat bearded. Germ oval, three-celled, with 

 two ovula in each attached to the axis. Style shorter than 

 the petals. Stigma small, tri-dentate. Drnpe oval, of the 

 size of a pigeon's egg, smooth, of a yellow olive colour, 

 and pulpy ; when ripe one-celled. Nut oblong, rugose, 

 very hard, three celled, and in time having three valves. 

 Seed solitarj', linear, oblong. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed, soft and oily. Embryo inverse, &c. as in the other 

 species. 



6. E, lancecpfoliits. R. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolar, serrate, smooth. Stamina 

 fifteen, bearded. Drupe long, turbinate, with a one-celled 

 nut of nearly the same shape. 



Sz/fed-pai, is the vernacular name in Silhet, where it 

 grows to be a middling sized tree. Flowering time the 

 beginning of the rains ; the fruit ripens in September and 

 October. 



Young shoots round and perfectly smooth. Leaves 

 about the ends of the twigs, alternate, short-pctiolcd. 



