coo poLYANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Elaeocarpus. 



about an inch long, with a very few short hairs scat- 

 tered over them. Stipules subulate, hairy, caducous. 

 Racemes axillary, drooping and spreading, of the length 

 of the leaves, a little hairy. Flowers few, long-pedicelled, 

 generally drooping, large, yellow, and fragrant. Calyx of 

 five, lanceolate, hairy, villous leaflets. Petals five, cu- 

 neiform, having the exterior margin deeply laciniate, very 

 hairy, particularly on the outside ; the hairs white, de- 

 pressed, and pointing forward. Filaments regularly from 

 forty-five to fifty, short, smooth, and slender, inserted in 

 five, scarcely distinct bundles, on the top of the hairy 

 receptacle. Anthers linear, opening at the top, the exte- 

 rior lip of this mouth is continued into a pretty long, 

 simple, straight arista. Germ ovate, very hairy, and 

 elevated on the usual receptacle, which is here very hairy, 

 two-celled, with from ten to twelve ovula in each, attach- 

 ed in two vertical rows, to the middle of the partition. 

 Style subulate. Stigma acute. Drupe the size, shape, 

 and colour of a large olive. Nut oblong, both ends pointed, 

 having a pretty large rib on each of the flattened sides 

 running from the base of the apex, one, rarely two-celled, 

 surface a little rugose, texture both hard and tough. Seed 

 solitary, oblong, flat. Integument single, thick, hard, 

 and of a dark brown. Perisperm conform to the seed, 

 cartilaginous. Embyo inverse. Cotyledons as much ex- 

 tended as the perisperm, oblong, very thin, three-nerved. 

 Radicle oval, superior. / 



8. E, lucidus. R. 



Leaves long-petioled, broad-lanceolar, remotely serrate, 

 lucid, two minute glands at the base. 

 A tree, a native of Chittagong. 



9. E. fruticosus. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, serrulate. 

 Corymbs axillary. Petals much lacerated, united by 



