1 84 TlllCCCecS. \Ela:ocarpHS. 



Low country; a common weed. Fl. Dec-Jan.; yellow. 

 Throughout the Tropics of both worlds. 



Much the commonest species in Ceylon. This represents C. olztorms, 

 L., in Hermann's Herb. It is called 'Jaladara' by Moon. 



6. EIiHIOCAKFUS,^ Z. 



Trees ; fl. in axillary racemes ; sep. 5, distinct ; pet. 5, 

 distinct, laciniate ; stam. 15-30, inserted within a fleshy, 

 5-lobed disk ; anth. linear, opening by a terminal pore ; ov. 

 2-3-celled, with 2-many ovules in each cell ; style simple ; 

 fruit an indehiscent drupe, with fleshy epicarp and hard, bony 

 stone, usually i -celled, i -seeded ; cotyledons flat, endosperm 

 copious. — Sp. 50 ; 40 in Fl. B. hid. 



One anther-valve tipped with a brush of hairs . i. E. serratus. 

 Anther-valves equal, not bearded. 

 L. glabrous beneath. 



L. oval ; petiole i in. long . . . . 2. E. amcenus. 

 L. obovate ; petiole very short . . . 3. E. OBOVATUS. 

 L. pubescent beneath. 



L. rotundate, very obtuse . . . . 4. E. MONTANUS. 



L. oval 5. E. SUBVILLOSUS. 



One anther- valve elongated into a beak or bristle 

 {Monocera). 



L. ovate 6. E. zeylanicus. 



L. lanceolate attenuate 7. E. glandulifer. 



I. E. serratus, L. Sp. P/. 515 (1753). Weralu, S. [Plate XX.] 

 Herm. Mus. 9. Burm. Thes. 93. Fl. Zeyl. n. 206. Moon Cat. 42. 



Thw. Enum. 32. C. P. 539. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 401 (not given for Ceylon). Burm. Thes. t. 40. Lam. 



111. Gen. t. 459, f. 2 (fruit). 



A rather small tree, young parts pubescent ; 1. 2-4 in., 

 oval or obovate-oval, acute at base, obtuse, often rounded at 

 apex, usually shallowly crenate-serrate, glabrous, paler beneath, 

 with glandular thickenings in the vein-axils, petiole I in. ; fl. 

 drooping, in numerous racemes from axils of past and present 

 1, and rather shorter than them, ped. as long as sep., bracts 

 none, buds conical ; sep, \ in., lanceolate, acute, finely pilose 

 or glabrous ; pet. larger than sep., with a broad cuneate base, 

 cut more than half-way down into numerous filiform laciniaj ; 

 stam. 25-35, fil- short, anth. linear, black, one valve tipped 

 with a brush of hairs half as long ; disk hairy, orange ; ov. 

 hairy, 3-celled ; drupe i-i| in., ovoid, bluntly pointed, smooth, 

 dull greenish yellow, pulp copious, stone under i in., ovoid- 



* From the very strong resemblance of the fruit of E. serratus to the 

 olive. 



