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U. Monoceras, Cav. to wliieli Dr. Masters I'eduoes this, was founded 

 by its author on specimens from the island of Luzon. The species, how- 

 ever, is not given in the latest Flora of the Philippines (that of Sig. 

 Vidal) ; and, as the original description of Cavanilles does not quite 

 agree with the flowers of the Perak specimens, I think it safer not to go 

 farther back them Blume's name, leaving it to be settled hereafter 

 whether E. ohtusus, Bl. is really the same plant as the Philippine i?. 

 Monoceras. The Perak plant is closely allied to B. littoralis, T. B. (for 

 which Kurz mistook it) ; and also to the smaller-flowered Sumatran 

 JE. cuneifolius, Miq. 



17. Elj:ocarpus apiculatus. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 407. 

 A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches glabrous, their apices mucii 

 thickened, rough and iDuberiilous. Leaves coi'iaceous, obovate or ob- 

 lanceolate-oblong, slightly narrowed to the obtuse, sub-acute, or shortly 

 apiculate apex, and much narrowed to the base, the edges sub-entire or 

 with coarse shallow crenations ; both surfaces glabrous, shining, the 

 midrib on the lower glabrescent when young ; under surface pale, the 

 reticulations minute, rather distinct ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath and interarching freely within the margin, not 

 scrobiculate ; length 7 to 10 in. ; breadth 25 to 3'75 in., petiole "3 to 1 

 in., thickened at the apex. Eiacemes few, mostly from the axils of 

 fallen leaves, usually about a fourth but sometimes half the length of 

 the leaves ; the rachises and pedicels softly pubescent. Flowers '9 in. 

 in diam. ; buds oblong, sub-obtuse or pointed, their pedicels "75 to 1'25 

 in. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, rufous-pubescent outside, glabrous or 

 glabrescent inside, the edge infolded and pubescent, the midrib thickened 

 from base to apex. Petals slightly longer than the sepals, oblong- 

 cuneiform to cuneiform, cut from one-fourth to one-fifth of their length 

 into numerous rather broad fimbriae ; externally adpressed-sericeous 

 in the lower half, glabrous in the upper ; internally thickened and 

 villous in the lower, glabrous in the upper, half. Torus a shallow 

 fleshy puberulous cup. Stamens 30 to 40, half as long as the petals ; 

 filaments shorter than the minutely scaberulous anthers, bulbous at the 

 base: outer anther-cell with short or long apical recurved awn. Ovary 

 ovoid, rufous-tomentose, pointed, 2-celled. Style as long as the petals, 

 conic-cylindric and pubescent in the lower half, filiform and glabrous 

 in the upper. Fridt (fide Masters) " 1 in. long, resembling the fruit of 

 a Diospi/ros." Terminalia mohiccana, Wall, (not of Lcmk.) Cat. 3969. 



Penang ; Wallich. Malacca; Griffith, Maingay, No. 262 (Kew. 

 Distrib.). Perak; Scortechini, King's Collector; common at low ele- 

 vations. 



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