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usually produced into filiform appendages, glabrous, base rounded ; 

 petioles -g—l in. long, slender, hairy ; stipules lanceolate, acicular. 

 Flowers small, in leaf-opposed cymes ; buds obovoid, apiculate ; bracts 

 filiform ; pedmicles almost ; pedicels 2-3, very short. Sepals /^ in. 

 long, liuear-oblong, apiculate. Petals spathulate, a little longer than the 

 sepals. Capsules f-l-^- in. long, erect, stout, cylindric, truucate, 6-angled 

 (3 of the angles winged) ; valves 3-4, slightly septate or without parti- 

 tions ; beak 3-tid, the tips stellately spreading or recurved. Seeds 

 truncate, dark brown. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 398 ; Grab. Cat. p. 20 ; Dak. & 

 Gibs. p. 25 ; Trim. M. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 183 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1897) p. 265 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 534.— Plowers : 

 Sept. 



A eonunon weed. Konkan : Law !, Stocks ! ; Bombay, Capt. Geburnc ! ; Parel 

 (Bombay), Woodrow ! ; Neral (below Matherau), Woodrow ! Gujauat : Godra, 

 (Jookcl SiND : Jemadar ka Landa (near Karachi), Stoc/is! — Distrib. Oeylou. 



5. EL-ffiOCARPUS, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves simple, entire or serrate. Plowers in i-acemes, rarely 

 polygamous. Sepals 4-5, valvate (rarely imbricate), distinct. Petals 

 as many as the sepals, laciuiate, lobed or rarely entire, inserted round 

 the base of a thickened glandular torus. Stamens numerous (rarely 

 8-12), inserted on the torus between the glands ; anthers linear, de- 

 hiscing by a transverse valve at the apex. Ovaiy 2-5-celled ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell ; style subulate, entire. Drupe with a single bony tuberculate 

 stone, 3-5- or (by suppression) 1-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Seeds pendulous ; 

 testa crustaceous or bony ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat or 

 undulate. — Distrib. Tropical Asia, islands of the Pacific and Australia ; 

 species abqut 50. 



Anthers not terminated by an awn. 



Drupe 5-celled 1. E. Ganitrus. 



Drupe 1-3-celled. 



Anthers bearded ; filaments short, straight 2. E. scrratus. 



Anthers rarely bearded ; filaments long, twice bent 3. E. oblongus. 



Antliers terminated by a long awn. 

 Leaves obovate. 



Stone much tubercled 4. E. tuherculatus. 



Stone rugose, not tubercled 5. E. aristatus. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate 6. E. Munroii. 



1. Elseocarpus Ganitrus, Roxh. Hort. Bcng. (1814) p. 42. A tree. 

 Leaves 4-6 by 1-1| in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate (rarely 

 obtuse), obscurely and irregularly crenate-serrate or subentire, decurrent 

 into the petiole, glabrous ; petioles ^-^ in. loDg. Racemes 2-3 in. long, 

 from the old wood : buds ovoid-conical, pointed ; pedicels ^ in. Jong. 

 Sepals I in. long, oblong, acuminate, pubescent outside. Petals y^ in. 

 Ions:, oblong, laciniate about half way down, ciliolate. Stamens about 

 40, in groups opposite each petal ; filaments very short : anthers hnear, 

 one valve tipped at the apex with a small tuft of glistening hairs. 

 Ovary pilose, 5-celled ; style longer than the stamens. Drupes g-f in. 

 in diam., globose or somewhat obovoid, purple ; stone tiibercled, 5-celled, 

 5-seeded. El. B. I. v. 1, p. 400 ; Grab. Cat. p. 22 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 27 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 27 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 



