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11. ELiEOCARPUS PKTIOLA.TUS, Wall. Cat. 2673. A tree 20 to 40 

 feet high ; all parts glabrous except the inflorescence ; young branches 

 dark-coloured, about the thickness of a goose-quill. Leaves coriaceous, 

 elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate; 

 edges entire : base slightly cuneate or rounded; both sui'faces shining, 

 the lower slightly paler when dry, the reticulations sharply distinct on 

 both surfaces : main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, sub-ascending, curving and 

 interarching a little within the margin : length 4'5 to 6"5 in., breadth 

 2 to 2 75 in. ; petiole 1'4 to 2*-l in. slender, dark-coloured, slightly thick- 

 ened at the apex. Racemes numerous from the old wood just below the 

 leaves, shorter than the leaves, rachises and pedicels deciduously puberu- 

 lous. Flowers "5 in. in diam., their pedicels "35 in. ; buds ovoid, rather 

 abruptly pointed. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, almost glabrous exter- 

 nally ; quite glabrous internally, the infolded edges alone pubescent, the 

 midrib thickened from base to apex. Petals about as long as the sepals, 

 oblong, the apex cut into 10 to 13 narrow glabrous teeth, the lower two- 

 tliiids sericeous, cucullate at the base from the infolding of the edges, a 

 large fleshy villous gland in the middle near the base with a quasi-cell 

 at each side of it, the hairs on the inner surface retroversed. Toras a 

 10-lobed fleshy glabrescent disk. Stametis 18 to 25, shorter than the 

 petals, with sericeous or glabrescent flat or sub-cylindric filaments much 

 shorter than the shortly puberulous anthers : apex of anther deeply 

 cleft, the outer cell with a sub- recurved thick awn shorter than the 

 filament. Ovarij ovoid, pointed, glabrous, 2-celled. Style as long as the 

 stamens and much longer than the ovary, cylindric, grooved, glabrous. 

 Fruit elHptio, blunt at each end, smooth, "4 to '6 in. long, and '3 in. in 

 diam. : the pulp thin, with very few fibi'es ; stone very slightly rugose, 

 1-celled, 1 -seeded. Monocera petiolata, Jack Mai. Misc. i. No. v, 43; 

 ex Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 86 ; Cum. et Zoll. in Bull. Mosc. xix, 495. 

 Monoceras petiolatum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt, 2, p. 212; Kurz Fl. Burm. 

 i. 164 ; Pierre, Fl. Forest. Coch. -Chine, t. 140. Elceocarpus intejra, 

 Mast (not of Wall.) in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 408. 



Malacca; Griffith No. 699; Maingay, No. 256, (Kew Distrib.); 

 Derry. Singapore; Hullett, King. Peoang ; Curtis, No. 383. Perak ; 

 Scortechini, King's Collector, Wray, very common at low elevations, 

 Distrib. Sumatra, Beccari, N. S. No. 668. 



This is undoubtedly the Monocera petiolata of Jack; that it is 

 the Ela'ocarpus Integra of Wall. (Cat. No. 2668) I very much doubt. 

 Wallich's No. 2668 was collected in Silliet from which no specimen any- 

 thing like this has been collected since his day. In fact there is no 

 evidence to show that this species is found in any part of British India 

 (as distinguished from British Malaya), although Kurz includes it in hig 



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