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or two of the cells sub-abortive, the walls thick. Mast, in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. i. 401 ; Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. i. pt. 2, 210 ; Kurz Fl. Br. Burm. 

 i, 167; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch.-Chine, t. 143; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 

 2, 210. E. serratus, Roxb. (not of L.) Fl. Ind. ii. 596. E. grossa, Wall. 

 Cat. 2661. E. serratus, Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. 2666 A, B. partly. E. 

 oblongus. Wall. Cat. 2677 ; C. Miill. Annot. de fam. Elseocarp. 19, f. 30. 

 E. Lobbiamos, Turcz. in Mosc. Ball. 1858, 235. 



The Nicobar Islands. Distrib. British India through Burmah to 

 the E. Himalaya, in tropical forests. 



There is no doubt that this is the plant which Roxburgh described 

 as E. serratus, Willd. 



10. Elj:ocarpus paniculatus, Wall. Cat. 2663. A tree 15 to 30 

 feet high : all parts glabrous except the inflorescence, young branches 

 with dark polished bark. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or ob- 

 lanceolate-oblong to ovate-oblong, shortly acuminate ; the edges entire, 

 slightly wavy ; base slightly cuneate, sometimes rounded : both sur- 

 fafjes glabrous, the upper shining ; the lower paler and rather dull, the 

 reticulations distinct ; main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, sub-ascending, inter- 

 archino- freely within the margin : length 4'5 to 6"5 in., breadth 1"65 to 

 2' 75 in. ; petiole '8 to 2 in., glabrous. Racemes numerous, from the 

 axils near the apices of the branches, longer than the leaves, erect, 

 rachises puberulous, becoming glabrous : pedicels spreading, slender, 

 minutely pubescent, '5 to 65 in. long. Flowers about '5 in. in diam. ; 

 buds ovoid with long narrow points. Sepals ovate, acuminate, ad- 

 pressed-sericeous outside ; glabrous inside except the pubescent infolded 

 edges. Petals not longer than the sepals, ovate acuminate, entire, out- 

 side adpressed-sericeous, inside glabrous in the upper villous in the 

 lower half and especially on the thickened midrib and infolded edges. 

 Torus a shallow fleshy waved sericeous disk. Stamens 50, almost 

 sessile, nearly as long as the petals ; anthers sericeous, the cells sub- 

 equal, the outer with a rather thick terminal awn. Ovary narrowly 

 ovoid, sericeous, 2-celled. Style longer than the ovary, cylindric, gla- 

 brous. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, smooth, glabroug, blui.sli 

 when ripe, '4 to "5 in. long and "25 to '35 in. in diam. ; pulp rather 

 thick, slightly fibrous ; stone bony, minutely tuberculate, l-ccllod, 1- 

 seeded. C. Miill. Annot. de fara. Elaeocarp. 12 ; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. i. 407. Monoceras leucobotryum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 409. 

 Monocera Grijjithii, Miill. 1. c. 



Singapore ; Wallich, Anderson. Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay (Kew 

 Distrib.) No. 257. Perak ; Scortechini, King's Collector ; common at 1o>y 

 elevations. 



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