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9. El^ocarpus, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves simple. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, rarely 

 polygamous, in axillary racemes. Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, usually 

 laciuiate at the apex, rarely entire, springing from the outside of a 

 cushion-shaped, often 5-lobed torus. Stamens usually indefinite, never 

 less than 10, arising from the inside of the torus, and more or less ag- 

 gregated into groups opposite the petals and alternating with the glands 

 of the torus; anthers innate, linear, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary 

 sessile, 2-5-celled, cells 2-many-ovuled ; style columnar. Drupe with a 

 single bony stone which is 3-5 or, by abortion, 1-celled. Seeds pendulous, 

 1 in each cell, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. • Distrib. About 50 

 species chiefly in the Indian Archipelago and India; a few in some of 

 the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. 

 Sect. I. Ganitrus. Ovary and drupe 5-celled, 

 the latter globular. 



Leaves glabescent or glabrous, without 

 stipules. 



Leaves lanceolate 



,, ovate- oblong ... 

 Leaves softly rusty-pubescent or tomen- 

 tose beneath, stipulate ... 

 Sect. II. Eu-elceocarpus. Ovary 3-celled : longer 

 cell of anthei's usually with an apical 

 tuft of minute hair ; petals cunei form, 

 fimbriate. 



Leaves pubescent beneath, elliptic- 

 oblong 

 Leaves glabrescent beneath ; the midrib 

 pubescent. 



Leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate, with 

 black dots beneath 

 „ narrowly lanceolate, not 

 dotted beneath... 

 Leaves quite glabrous everywhere. 

 Leaves with rounded bases. 

 Petals glabrous ... 



„ glandular-pubescent ... 



1. E. Oanitrus. 



2. E. parvifoKus, 



3. E. stipularis. 



4. E. Scortechiniu 



5. E. Wrayi. 



6. E. salicifoUus. 



Leaves with their bases much 

 narrowed. 



Petals glandular-pubescent : 

 fruit ovoid or slightly ob- 

 ovoid, blunt 



7. E. rohustns. 



8. E. nitidus, var. 



leptostachyus. 



E, nitldus. 



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