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Allied to E. Kunstleri, King and to E. rugosus, Roxb. In fact I 

 am inclined to believe that it is merely a form of the latter, from -whicli 

 it should not be separated specifically. Dr. Prain has called my atten- 

 tion to Wallich's sheet No. 8969, which is unmistakeably this species, 

 and has nothing to do with Terminalia moluccana, Lamk. which, is T. 

 Gatappa, Linn. 



18. ELiEOCARPUs ARISTATUS, Roxb. Hort. Beng. : Fl. Ind. ii. 599. 

 A tree 30 to 60 feet high : young branches of about the thickness of a 

 swan's qiiill, smooth, thickened and rough towards the apex. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, obovate, shortly and bluntly apiculate, remotely cre- 

 nate-serrate, narrowed to the base, glabrous on both surfaces ; main 

 nerves 7 to 10 pairs, slender, curving, scrobiculate at the origin from 

 the midrib; length 6 to 85 in., breadth 2 75 to 375 in., petiole '5 to "7 

 in. Bacemes axillary and from the axils of fallen leaves, often nearly as 

 long as the leaves, 3 to 5-flowered, rachises and pedicels puberulous or 

 glabrous. Flowers nearly 1 in. in diam. ; buds cylindric, pointed ; pedi- 

 cels -8 to 1-25, or longer in fruit. Sepals as in E. apiculatus. Petals 

 also as in E. apiculatus but broadly cuneiform, and lobed as well as 

 fimbriate. Stamens 50, otherwise as in E. apiculatus. Ovary less vel- 

 vety, but otherwise as in E. apiculatus. Fruit ovoid, smooth, 1-25 to 

 1-4 in. long and '8 to '9 in. in diara., pulp rather thick; stone oblong, 

 flattened, pointed at each end, rugose, slightly ridged in the middle of 

 each side, 1 in. long. 1-celled, 1-seeded. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 405. E. rugosus, Wall. Cat. No. 2659 (not of Roxb.). 



Andaman Islands ; King's Collector. Distrib. Brit. India in 

 Burmah, Chittagong, Sylhet, Assam, Khasia Hills and base of Eastern 

 Himalaya. 



This is very closely allied to E. rugosus, Roxb. — a species originally 

 discovered by Roxburgh in Chittagong, but specimens of which from 

 that province are very rare in collections. The plants distributed under 

 this name by Wallich as No. 2659 of his Catalogue were not collected 

 there but in Sylhet, while some of them were taken from trees cultiva- 

 ted in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. They are not E. rugosus at all, 

 but iJ. arisia^/t.9, Roxb.; and they differ from true E. rugostis in having 

 their youngbranches tliinnerand smoother; and in leaves which are always 

 glabrous, not so gradually narrowed to the base and with much Ioniser 

 petioles. Their racemes are also more numerous, the petals more broad- 

 ly cuneiform and the stamens more numerous, (50 as against 30 to 40). 

 The pulp of the fruit is thicker in Andamans specimens of this than in 

 those from Sylhet and Assam ; and the stone is proportionately smaller. 

 There is in Assam and Burmah a plant closely allied to this which has 



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