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which it. represents as too broad and with too many fimbi'ise : other- 

 wise it is an equally exact I'epresentafcion of the Indian plant described by 

 him as E. Ganitrus, and of E. cyanocarpa, Maingay. 



2. Elj;ocarpus parvifolids, Wall. Cat, 2662 A & B. A tree 30 

 to 50 feet high : young branches at first minutely pubescent, ultimately 

 glabrous greyish-brown and minutely lenticellate. Leaves membranous, 

 ovate-oblong, rather bluntly acuminate, serrulate, the base cuneate : 

 upper surface shining, glabrous ; the lower dull of chocolate brown 

 colour, glabrous or glabrescent, the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of curved 

 ascending nerves pubescent on both; length 2'5 to 4 in., breadth 1*1 to 

 1'4 in.; petiole "6 to '75 in., slender, puberulous. Racemes irom the 

 branches below the leaves, rather shorter than the leaves, the rachis, 

 flower-pedicels and outside of calyx softly and shortly pubescent. 

 Floioers '3 in, in diam., their pedicels about "1 in., recurved, buds conical. 

 Sepals slightly shorter than the petals, lanceolate, puberulous within 

 and 3-uerved. Petals cuneiform, slightly nerved, cut half-way down 

 into numerous narrow lacinise, almost glabrous. Torus of 5 distinct, 

 broad, shallow, fleshy, grooved, pale, velvety glands. Stamens 15, 

 shorter than the petals, with short filaments ; the anthers scaberulous, 

 cells equal, obtuse, the outer sometimes with 2 or 8 minute pale apical 

 hairs. Ovary globose, 5 -grooved, 5-celled, sparsely pubescent. Style 

 as long as the stamens, cylindric, faintly 5-grooved, glabrescent or gla- 

 brous. Frtiit globose, sometimes ovoid-globose, '75 to 1 in. in diam, : 

 stone 5-celled, with fertile seeds in only 2 or 3 cells, ovoid, '7 in. long, 

 bluntly rugose, and with 5 very faint grooves from base to apex. C. 

 Mull. Anuot. de fam. Elseocarp. 24; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 401. 



Singapore ; Ridley, King's Collector. Malacca ; Griflith, (Kew 

 Distrib.) 684, Maingay, 254. Penang and Singapore; VVallich, Curtis. 

 Perak ; King's Collector, Scortechini. 



3, El^OCARPUS sttpularis, Blume Bijdr, 121. A more or less 

 rusty-pubescent tree 40 to 70 feet high : young branches thin, minutely 

 toraentose. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or acumin- 

 ate : the edges usually entii-e, slightly recurved when dry, sometimes 

 waved ; the base slightly cuneate, or sometimes rounded : upper sur- 

 face at first puberulous, ultimately glabrous, the midrib always pubes- 

 cent: lower softly rusty-pubescent : main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, spread- 

 ing, interarching close to the margin : length 3'6 to 65 in., breadth 

 1*75 to 2*5 in. ; petiole "5 to "75 in,, minutely tomentose, not conspicu- 

 ously thickened at the apex ; stipules halbert-sha])ed, tomentose, fuga- 

 ceous. Bacemes axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, usually 

 shorter than, but sometimes as long as the leaves ; the rachises, pedicels 



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