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Flora of Burmah. This species is a smaller tree than E. peilancrdatus, 

 which, however, it closely resembles, differing chiefly in the shape of the 

 leaves, the nearly glabi-ous sepals and in the larger number of stamens, 

 I], ovalis, Miq. (a species from Sumatra) must be very nearly allied to 

 this. I have seen only a fruiting specimen of E. ovalis, but, except in 

 having leaves of thicker texture and slightly larger fruit, I see little to 

 prevent its being referred here. 



12. El^ocabpus Griffithii, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. lud. i. 408. 

 A tree 30 to 40 or over 70 feet high, all parts glabrous except the in- 

 florescence ; young branches almost as thin as a crow-quill, dark-colour- 

 ed. Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, 

 the edges cartilaginous with shallow mucronate crenulations, or sub- 

 entire with remote marginal black points, the base sub-cuneate or 

 rounded : both surfaces shining, the reticulations minute and distinct : 

 main nerves 5 or 6 pairs spreading, forking and interarching at some 

 distance from the margin, not prominent: length of blade 25 to 375 

 in., breadth 9 to 1'5 in., petiole "5 to 1 in. Racemes from the ujjper 

 axils, longer than the leaves, rachises and pedicels softly and minutely 

 pubescent. Flowers '5 in. in diam. ; pedicels thickened at the apex, 

 • 6 to '8 in. long : buds ovoid-conic. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, finely 

 adpressed sericeous externally, glabrous internally except the pubescent 

 infolded edges and the thickened sometimes sericeous midrib. Petals 

 about as long as sepals, ovate, acuminate, the apex irregularly 2 or 3- 

 toothed with 2 or 3 lateral fimbrise, out.side minutely adpressed- 

 sericeous, inside retroversed hirsute especially on the large gland near 

 the base; edges in the lower two-thirds much infolded so as to form with 

 the gland 2 quasi-cells. Tories a shallow, acutely 10-lobed, fleshy disk. 

 Stamens 35 to 40, shorter than the petals : filaments short, sericeous as 

 are the unequally 2-celled anthers : outer cell with a tapering awn j to |- 

 of its own length, the inner with a few apical hairs. Ovary narrowly 

 ellipsoid, tapering, glabrous except a few silky haij's, 2-celled. Style 

 cylindric, grooved, glabrous, longer than the ovary. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 blunt at both ends, smooth, "5 in. long aiid "3 in. in diam. : pulp thin 

 with a few fibres; stone slightly rugose, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, for 1870, p. 68 ; for 1874, pt. 2, 123 ; For. 

 Flora Burm. i. 164. Monocera tricanthera, Griff. Not. pt. 4, 518, t. 619, 

 fig. 3. Monocera Griffithii, Wight III. i. 84, (not of Miill.). Monocera 

 liolopetala, Zoll. et Cum. Bull. Mosc. xix, 496. Monoceras odontopeta- 

 lum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 409. 



Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay, No. 257/2 (Kew Distrib.). Perak, at 

 low elevations ; King's Collector, Wray. Penang ; King's Collector. 

 Distrib. Tcuasserim, Heifer, No. 714, Kcw Distrib. 



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