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13. El.kocarpus HuLiiETTii, n, sp., King. A tree 30 to 40 feet 

 high : young branches very slender, dark-coloured ; all jjarts glabrous 

 except the inflorescence. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; edges slightly cartilaginous, entire or remotely 

 and obscurely serrate ; the base cuneate or rounded : both surfaces 

 shining, the reticulations minute, elongate and rather distinct on the 

 lower; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs curving, interarching within the edge, 

 rather faint; length of blade 2-5 to 3 in., breadth "75 to 14 in.; petiole 

 •65 to "9 in., slender. Bacemes from the leaf-axils below the apex, 

 crowded, usually shorter than, but sometimes as long as, the leaves, the 

 rachises glabrescent or puberulons, the pedicels silky puberulous. 

 Floivers '3 in. in diam., their pedicels "35 in. long. Sepals linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate; externally adpressed-pubescent ; internally glabrous 

 below, puberulous near the apex and on the infolded edges. Petals 

 ovate, concave at the base, narrowed to the 10 to J2-fimbriate apex ; 

 outside glabrous, inside villous on the much-thickened base of the mid- 

 rib, otherwise puberulous. Torus very shallow, deeply 10-lobed, serice- 

 ous. Stamens 20, slightly shorter than the petals : filaments nearly as 

 long as the minutely scaberulous anthers, outer cell with tapering awn 

 nearly as long as itself. Ovary ovoid, pubescent, 2-celled. Style as 

 long as the petals and much longer than the ovary, subulate, puberulous 

 below, glabrous above. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, smooth, 6 

 in. long, -35 in. in diam. ; pulp thin, very slightly fibrous : stone rugulose, 

 rather thick, bony, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Singapore; Hullett, No. 132. Penang; Curtis, No. 1091, King's 

 Collector, No. 1475. Perak, on low hills ; Scortechini, King's Collector. 



A species not unlike E. Griffithii, Wall, but with smaller flowers 

 and much shorter racemes. 



14. ELiEOCARPUS PEDUNCULATDS, Wall. Cat. 2678 in part. A tree 

 40 to 80 feet high: glabrous except the inflorescence : young branches 

 nearly as thin as a crow-quill, polished, dai-k-coloured ; their apices and 

 the older branchlets rough and thickened. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceo- 

 late or narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse or slightly narrowed at the apex, 

 the base very cuneate; the edges cartilaginous, remotely-mucronate 

 crenate- waved, slightly recurved when dry ; both surfaces shining: the 

 lower very slightly the paler and with the minute reticulations distinct ; 

 main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, interarching at some distance from the edge ; 

 length of blade 3 to 45 in., breadth 125 to TS in., petiole 75 to ] '2 in. 

 Racemes axillary but mostly from axils of fallen leaves, 3 or 4 in. long, 

 rachises and pedicels hoary-pubescent. Floivers "3 in. in diam., buds 

 narrowly ovoid, sub-acute ; pedicels recurved, slightly longer than the 



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