TILIACE^. 49 



raised torus 1/20 inch high, very numerous; anthers 

 li inch gaping at the end not produced beyond. Ovary 

 1/20 inch covered with short erect hairs ; style twice as 

 long, tapering to a point. Fruit an Olive-like drupe, 

 I by Vz inch. t. 37. Wight Ic. t. 46. 



In the axils of the main veins, on the under side of the leaves, one 

 nearly always finds small perforated swellings. These though probably 

 cne result of insect agency occur too consistently to be left out of a descrip- 

 tion. The crimson colouring of the autumn foliage is very striking ; one 

 nearly always finds a few leaves turned, and a tree may be identified by 

 them. When a whole tree is crimson the effect is comparable to that of 

 the "Virginia-creeper." 



Quite common towards the lower limit of our areas, often 

 planted near villages. Jjson 649, 1721, 2674, 2771. Bourne 

 219, 801. 



Distributed to the north in the evergreen forests of Canara, and 



Mableshwar; westwards to Burma and the Malay islands, but not on the 



intervening plains. Confined to the semi-temperate hill-tracts of the 

 tropics of Asia. 



Elaeocarpus fcrrugineus Wight, Herb. Prop ! ; F.B.I. 

 i 406, XIII 27 ; a shola tree with greyish green foliage 

 in well-marked tiers, easily recognisable at a distance and 

 more closely by its absolutely characteristic round-backed 

 leaves. All young parts and leaves covered with a dense, 

 rusty or greyish, tomentum of short stellate hairs ; leaf- 

 scars flat; lenticels small; petiole I inch. Leaf very 

 convex, like an inverted boat without its keel, elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, with very shallow serrations 1/16 to J^ 

 inch apart and tipped with short hairs ; densely tomen- 

 tose on the lower side, less so on the upper and eventually 

 smooth ; veins about nine pairs, very regular and repeat- 

 edly bifurcating towards the margin. Racemes 2 to 4 

 inches, pedicels ^ inch ; buds elliptic, Y^, inch. Sepals 

 Vzhy Ye inch, all densely tomentose. Petals as long, % 

 inch wide, covered with long appressed hairs, cut from the 

 margin about one-third down. Stamens twenty or so, on 

 a low yellow torus; anthers Ye inch, one lobe prolonged at 

 the end into a slender curved awn, the other much shorter. 

 Ovary densely covered with hairs, three-celled ; style 

 4 



