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Leaves rufous-pubescent on lower surface 

 when young : ultimately glabrescent 

 or glabrous ... ... ... 21. E. glahrescens. 



Leaves glabrous at all stages. 



Leaves acute narrowed at the base 

 into the petiole : fruit oblong- 

 ovoid, "5 in. long ... ... 22. E.punctatus. 



Leaves acuminate (often caudate) 

 base not passing into petiole : 

 fruit ovoid-globose, "35 in. long... 23. E. Mastersii. 



1. El^ocarpus Ganitrus, Roxb. Hoi't. Beng. 42 : Fl. Ind. iii. 592. 

 A tree 30 to 60 feet high : branchlets with dark bark, cinei'eously pu- 

 berulous when quite young. Leaves membranous, lanceolate, acute at 

 base and apex, obscurely serrulate, glabrescent or glabrous : main 

 nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, slender : length 35 to 55 in., breadth 

 1*25 to 2"25 in., petiole '3 to '5 in. Racemes from the branches below 

 the leaves, drooping, shorter than the leaves, crowded, many-flowered. 

 Flowers '35 in. long, narrow and pointed in bud ; their pedicels rather 

 longer, puberulous. Sepals lanceolate, shorter than the petals, puberu- 

 lous outside, glabrescent inside. Petals obovoid, the base thickened, 

 rounded and puberulous at the edge ; the limb glabrous, laciniate for 

 more than half its length. Torus short, fleshy, wrinkled, pubescent. 

 Anthers about 30 to 35, sessile, slightly pubescent or glabi'oas ; the 

 cells slightly unequal, the longer with 1 (or sometimes 2) short white 

 terminal hairs. Ovary ovoid-conic, with deep vertical grooves, minute- 

 ly tomentose, 5-celled, each cell with about 4 ovules. Strjle much 

 longer than the ovaiy, thin, fluted, puberulous or glabrescent, thickened 

 towards the base. Fruit spherical, 75 to '9 in. in diam., glabi-ous, 

 bluish-purple ; the stone vertically 5-grooved, tubercled, 5-celled, often 

 only one cell containing a ripe seed. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 400 ; Kurz Fl. Burm. i. 13 ; Wall. Cat. 2660 A to D ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 27. Ganitrus sphcerica, Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 271, t. 139, f. 6 ; 

 Wight Ic. i. 66. — Rumph. Amb. iii. t. 101. E. cyanocarpa, Maing. in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 406. 



Malacca ; Maingay, No. 263. Penang ; Curtis. Perak ; King's Collec- 

 tor, Scortechini. Distrib. Java; British India, in damp tropical forests 

 as far west as Nepal. 



I have dissected flowers of the type specimen (Maingay No. 263) of 

 E. cyanocarpa, Maingay, and I can find no difference in them from those 

 of the type sheets of E. Ganitrus in Wall. Cat. Roxburgh's original 

 drawing of E. Ganitrus in Herb. Gale, is wrong as regards the petals, 



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