594 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNiA. Elaeocarpus. 



the surface elegantly tubcrcled, and marked with five-equi- 

 distant, deep grooves running from the apex to the base, 

 five-celled. Seeds generally solitary, though sometimes two, 

 when single, oblong, tapering most at the apex. Integu- 

 ments two ; the exterior one brown, hard, smooth, and 

 brittle ; the inner one grey, and membranaceous. Peris- 

 perm conform to the seed, oily. Embryo inverse nearly as 

 long and broad as the perispcrra. Cotyledons oblong, thin, 

 three-nerved. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle oblong, supe- 

 rior. Ga^rtner has no doubt mistaken the apex of the drupo 

 of this plant, for the base ; and if more proof is required, 

 let me add of Elaeocarpus serratus also, where the em- 

 bryo is also inverted, though the nut is never more than 

 three-celled, that being the number of cells in the germ, and 

 also my E. bilocularis, where the perisperm and embryo 

 are the same, and the nut bilocular. 1 am a very inferior 

 judge of natural orders, but certainly think this cannot 

 belong to the same order with Garcinia, in which 1 include 

 Gambogia, and two species oi Xanthochymus. If it does, 

 I must despair of ever making any progress in this branch 

 of the science. 



2. E. tubercuhUus. R. 



Leaves petioled, obovate-cuneate, remotely-serrulate. 



Flowers racemed : stamina seventy-five, terminal by 

 a thread. Drupe oval, «Mf« ovate, much tubercled, thick- 

 margined, two-celled. 



Tam. Roodrach, or Oodcrach. 



A tree, a native of the forests of Travancore, Avhere it 

 blossoms about the beginning of the hot season. Dr. 

 Berry of Madras, who has procured from Mr. George 

 Young specimens and seeds of this sacred tree, says 

 the nuts are sold by the Swnyasees, or holy men, to the 

 Hindoos, set in gold, and by them wore as a religious 

 ornament. 



Leaves crowded about the ends of the branchlets, al- 



