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and pedicels pubescent. Flowers '25 in. in diam., the pedicels "15 to "2 

 in. Sepals lanceolate, spreading, hoary adpressed-tomentose outside, 

 pubescent inside, the midrib slightly thickened, the edges not incurved. 

 Petals a little longer than the sepals, cuneiform, contracted into a rather 

 narrow claw, divided more than half-way down into about eight 3-fim- 

 briate lobes, glabrescent outside, pubescent inside. Torus of 5 distinct, 

 subglobose, fleshy, externally grooved glands. Stamens 25, shorter than 

 the petals : filaments half as long as the minutely scaberulous shining 

 anthers : cells subequal, pointed, the upper with a minute apical tuft 

 of short hairs. Ovary globose, pointed, tomentose, 3-celled. Style 

 longer than the stamens, thick and tomentose at the base, cylindric and 

 glabrous above. Fruit unknow^n. 



Singapore ; King's Collector, No. 1207. 



This approaches E. augustifolius, Bl. but has smaller more pubes- 

 cent petals, fewer stamens, and less glabrous leaves. It is also closely 

 allied to E. hypadenns, Miq., but has not the characteristic rounded 

 stipules of that species, and the leaf-venation is different. It is also 

 allied to F. parvifolius, Wall, from which it differs in its narrower leaves 

 ■with much more slender veins, and also by its 3-celled ovary. 



7. El^ocarpus robustus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 598. 

 A tree 40 to 60 feet high ; young branches rather stout, at first puberu- 

 lous ; afterwards glabrous, ciuereous, lenticellate. Leaves thinly coria» 

 ceous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate or acute, serrate almost to 

 the slightly narrowed rounded rarely cuneate base ; both surfaces gla- 

 brous, the upper shining ; the lower dull, slightly paler, the minute 

 reticulations rather distinct and the 10 to 12 pairs of spreading curving 

 nerves rather prominent: length 3'5 to 9 in., breadth 175 to 35 in. ; 

 petiole 1 to 2'25 in., thickened at the apex. Racemes from the branches 

 beneath the leaves, and a few axillary, often nearly as long as the 

 leaves : rachis, pedicels and outer surface of the sepals pubescent. 

 Flowers "5 in. in diam., the pedicels slightly recurved and about '3 in. 

 long. Sepals lanceolate, glabrous inside except the incurved pubes- 

 cent edges, the midrib thick. Petals broadly cuneiform, much contract- 

 ed in the lower half, the base acute, cut half-way down into about 30 

 narrow fimbriae, glabrous except the puberulous edges. Torus of 5 

 fleshy, truncate, cushion-like velvety glands. Stamens 30 to 50, shorter 

 than the petals, scaberulous; the filaments curved, about one-fifth 

 the length of the anthers ; cells subequal, the longer with a small 

 tuft of white hair at its apex. Ovary ovoid-globose, with about 6 

 shallow vertical grooves, tomentose, 3-celled. Style cylindric, longer 

 than the ovary, shorter than the petals, pubescent in its lower, glabrous 



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