592 poLYANDRiA >ioNOGYNiA. Elaeocavpus. 



having the whole margins serrate, acuminate. Stipules 

 simple. Panicles terminal. Petals rctuse. Drupe with 

 a single bearded, three- celled nut. 



A native of China and of the country about Silhet. It 

 flowers in the rains ; the seed ripens during the cool 

 season. In Silhet it grows to be a tree, the fruit is the 

 size of a gooseberry, and very generally eaten. 



23. G. hegonifolia. R. 



Leaves oblong, with the base obliquely-cordate, entire, 

 three-nerved, harsh, with stellate hairs underneath. Sti- 

 pules and primary bractes ear-shaped. Panicles termi- 

 nal, douny. 



Found J)y Mr. Smith at Amboyna in flower in August. 

 From the appearance of his specimens, I imagine it is a 

 tree. 



ELAEOCARPUS. Schreh. gen. n. 898. 

 Calyx five-parted, or five-leaved. Petals five, lacini- 

 ate. Anthers with the top two valved, and bearded, 

 crowned. Germ from two to five celled; cells two, or 

 many-seeded. Drupe superior, with a tubercled, from two 

 to five- celled nut; cells one-seeded. £m6ri/o inverse, and 

 furnished with a perisperm. 



1. E. (janitrus. Jl. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolar, serrulate. Flowers ra- 

 cemed. Sfrtmma forty, bearded. Drupes si^hcrical ; nuts 

 spherical, five-celled. 



Ganitrus sphcerica. Gcert. sent. 2. p. 271. 1. 139. 



Ganitrus. Rumph. Amb. 3. p. 162. 1. 101. 



Sans. Koodraksha. 



Hind. Roodrakh. 



Beng. Roodrakhya. 



A tree, a native of various parts of India, as well as 



