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in its upper half. Fruit ovoid-globose, 1 to 1"25 in. long : stone oblong- 

 ovoid, rugose, slightly 3-grooved at base and apex, 3-celled. Mast, in 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 402 ; Kurz Fl. Burm. i. 169 ; Pierre Fl. For. 

 Coch-Chine, t. 147 ; Wight Ic. t. 64 ; Wall. Cat. 2664. E_^_ovalv[oUus, 

 Wall. Cat. 2665; C. Miill. Annot. de fam. Elseocarp. 21. E.amygdalinus, 

 Wall. Cat. 6857. E. serratus, Wall. Cat. 2666 C. E. ohlonga, Wall. 

 Cat. 2677. E. aristatus, Wall. Cat. 2665 B. ? Wall. Cat. 9027. E. 

 Helferi, Kurz MSS. ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 402. 



Penang ; Curtis. Pahang; Ridley. Andaman Islands. Distrib. 

 British India, from Burmah to the tropical forests of the E. Himalaya. 



8. El^ocarpus nitidus. Jack Mai. Misc. Vol. i. No. 2, 41 ; Hook. 

 Bot. Misc. ii. 84. A tree 25 to 35 feet high ; young shoots deciduously 

 pulverulent-pubescent, speedily glabrous as are all other parts except the 

 inflorescence ; young branches with blackish bark. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acuminate, crenate-ser- 

 rulate, (sometimes obscurely so) the base cuneate (rounded in var. 

 leptostacliya) ; upper surface shining, the lower dull brown ; main nerves 

 10 to 13 pairs, sjjreading, forming slender arches a little short of the 

 margin : length 4"5 to 9 in., breadth 1*75 to 2' 75 in. ; petiole 1"25 to 2 

 in. thickened at the apex. Racemes crowded on the old wood below the 

 leaves and rather more than half as long ; rachis, flower-pedicels, and 

 exterior of sepals sparsely puberulous. Flowers "35 in. in diam., their 

 pedicels recurved and rather shorter. Sepals shorter than the petals, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous and sometimes lenticellate outside, 

 puberulous inside and the midrib very thick. Petals cuneiform, finely 

 and irregularly laciuiate for nearly half their length, the entii'e trian- 

 gular part with thickened nerves and truncate base, glandular-pubescent 

 especially at the edges. Toriis of 5 truncate, sub-globular, fleshy, to- 

 meutose, cushion-like glands. Stamens 15 to 35 ; the filaments nearly 

 as long as the scabrid obtuse anthers : cells sub-equal, awidess, but 

 sometimes the longer with 2 or 3 small white hairs. Ovary globose, 

 slightly pointed, tomentose, 3-celled ; style longer than the ovary, slight- 

 ly thickened below and puberulous. Frtdt ovoid, or slightly obovoid, 

 smooth, 1'5 in. long, and 1 in. in diam. when quite ripe : stone 3-celled, 

 only one cell bearing a perfect seed. Wall. Cat. 2670 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. 2, p. 208 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 401 ; Wall. 

 Cat., No. 2678 (E. pedimculattis) in part. 



Penang; Jack, Curtis, No. 282, 463. Perak; King's Collector, No. 

 4926. 



The anthers are sometimes without any terminal hairs : sometimes 

 there are a few. I have seen no authentic specimen of Jack's naming, 



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