Elceocarpzis. ] 7"t ll acecs . 1 8 5 



oblong, pointed, thick, bony, strongly tubercled, i -celled, 

 I -seeded. 



[Var. fi. cuneaius, Wight, 111. i. 83 (sp.), stone 3-celIed.] 



Low country in the moist region up to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan. and 

 July, August ; white. 



Throughout the Indian and Malay Peninsulas and in Java. 



Wight gives Ceylon as a locality for his E. cimcatiis, and in Fl. B. Ind. i. 

 402, where it is maintained as a separate species, all the Ceylon E. sen^atics 

 is apparently referred to it. But the common Weralu is the basis of 

 Linnaeus' species, and the stone is invariably i -celled. 



When the leaves are nearly entire (as is often the case), it is E. inte- 

 grifolius, Lam. 111. t. 459. 



The fruit is generally known as 'wild olives' by the English, and is 

 eaten, the pulp being pleasantly subacid and palatable. Wood Hght, 

 open, yellowish-white. 



[^E. robtistus, Roxb., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. i. 402, I do not 

 know on what authority. There are no specimens from here in Hb. Kew. 

 It is figured in Wight, Ic. t. 64.] 



2. E. amoenus, Thiu. Enum. 32 (1858). Titta-weralu, S. 



C. P. 2651, 2587, 25240?), 3906. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 404. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. in. 



A moderate-sized, much-branched tree, young parts finely 

 appressed-puberulous ; 1. variable, 2-4 in., oblong-oval or oval, 

 usually tapering at both ends, slightly acuminate, obtuse, 

 crenate-serrate, glabrous, rather thick, veins prominent beneath, 

 with glandular pits in their axils, petiole i in. ; fl, drooping, in 

 short, spreading racemes from the axils of past leaves below 

 the new growth, ped. longer than sep., buds nearly globular ; 

 sep. \ in., lanceolate, acute, pilose, red ; pet. a little longer 

 than Sep., cuneate, more or less deeply cut into linear laciniae ; 

 stam. 18-30, pilose, fil. as long as beardless anth. ; ov. and 

 disk pilose; drupe nearly globular, |-i^ in., smooth, stone 

 spherical, deeply tubercled, with 3 vertical grooves, i -celled. 



Moist country at elevations of 2-5000 ft. ; rather common. Dickoya ; 

 Hewahette ; Hantane ; Dolosbagie ; Dimbula ; Rambodde. Fl. Sept., 

 October, March, and April ; white. 



Said in Fl. B. Ind. to occur also in S. India. 



Probably more than one species is here included, but I cannot 

 separate them. C. P. 3906 from Dickoya is a form with considerably 

 smaller fruit. C P. 2587 from Dimbula has broader leaves and wider 

 sepals than the type, very large fruit, and quite differently shaped petals. 



C. P. 2524 from N. Eliya is thought lay Thwaites to be perhaps a 

 different species. It has smaller flowers, more coriaceous, very obtuse 

 leaves, and approaches E. motitanus. I have also collected it in Rangala. 



The rather ornamental bony stones of the fruit are said to be exported 

 to India as beads for necklaces. 



