82 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 34. 
1, Flowering branch of Berria Ammonilla—natural 7. The same cut transversely. 
ize. 8. A full grown fruit. : 
2. A flower closed showing the relative size of the . The same cut transversely, showing by the pre- 
sepals and petals, and that the former are partly united _ sence of the full number of wings, that in this instance, 
at the base. one of the cells of the ovary has aborted in the course 
3. The same forcibly expanded. of its progress towards maturity. 
and sepals partially removed, showing the . One of the valves of the capsule removed, 
relative situation of all the parts of the flower. showing by the partition in the centre between the 
An anther, seeds, that the dehiscence is loculicidal. 
ll. A seed 
6. The ovary cut vertically, showing ovules pendu- 
lls. 
lous in the cells 12. The same cut vertically. 
XXVII.—ELHOCARPE. 
A small order of plants and principally of Indian origin, 10 out of about 20 described 
species, being natives of this country. The species are either handsome trees, or shrubs, with 
alternate, stipulate leaves, the stipules usually early deciduous, racemose flowers, and divided 
fimbriated petals. 
Sepals 4 or 5 without an involucrum, the cestivation valvate. Petals 4 or 5 hypogynous, 
rarely wanting, lobed or fringed at the point, cstivation imperfectly imbricated or sometimes 
valvate. Disk glandular, somewhat projecting. Stamens hypogynous or rarely perigynous, some 
multiple of the sepals, (8—80) filaments short, distinct, or slightly united at the base, anthers 
long, opening at the apex by adouble pore. Ovary with two or more cells: style solitary, 
simple, or sometimes trifid, rarely several: stigmas either free, equalling the cells of the ovary, 
or united. Fruit variable, indehiscent, dry, drupacious, or valvular and loculicidal ; sometimes 
by abortion l-celled. Seeds one or two in each cell, Albumen fleshy. Embryo inverted. 
Cotyledons flat, foliaceous, radicle superior, 
_ Geocrarnicat Distrreution. India and her islands seem to be the head quarters of 
this order, the species of which we find very generally distributed over the sub-alpine regions 
of the country, though not confined to them. Dr. Wallich in his list of Indian plants enume- 
rates no fewer than 28 species, not however all continental. Dr. Rox yurgh gives descriptions 
of 9 species, and Blume in his flora of Java of 11. These last however are not ali distinct from 
those named by Wallich. Only five or six species have yet, so faras | am aware, been found in 
the Peninsula and Ceylon. In addition to these Indian ones, a few are found in Australia 
and South America, whence it would appear, that in proportion to the number of species, few 
orders are spread over a more extensive surface than the Eleocarpee. oe: 
are esteemed sacred by some casts of the Hind : 
tuberculated on the surface, and are readily kates by are of a dark brown colour, very Hard, 
the number of carpels namely, that unite to form the perfect fruit. 
