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smaller leaves with very large scrobiculae on the lower surface at the 

 junction of the petioles with the midrib. This has been named E. 

 simiAex by Kurz, (Fl. Burm. i. 1G5.) A similar form occurs in Travancore 

 and has been named E. venustus by Beddome (Flora Sylvatica, t. 574). 



19. Eljiocaepus polystachyus, Wall. Cat. 2671. A small tree : 

 young shoots rather stout, minutely tawny-tomentose. Leaves coriace- 

 ous, pale when dry, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly acumi- 

 nate ; the edges rather remotely serrulate except at the base, sub-entire 

 when old; the base broad, rounded; upper surface glabrous; the loAver 

 sparsely and minutely sub-adpressed puberulous, the midrib pubescent 

 main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, ascending, curving, prominent beneath, the 

 reticulations minute, faint : length 5"5 to 7'5 in., breadth 2-25 to 3'5 in. ; 

 petioles 2'5 to 4 in., minutely tawny-tomentose, slightly thickened at 

 the apex. Racemes slightly longer than the petioles ; the rachises, 

 pedicels and outside of sepals densely minutely tawny-tomentose. 

 Flowers '35 in. in diam., their pedicels '4 in., recurved, buds sub-globose. 

 Sepals ovate, acute ; inner surface glabrous, except the pubescent edges, 

 the midrib thickened. Petals elliptic, little longer than the sepals, the 

 apex obtuse, sometimes slightly lobed, not fimbriate : villous on both 

 surfaces, the hairs on the inner I'eversed. Torus of 5 refuse thin densely 

 villous glands. Smensta half as long as the petals : filaments nearly 

 as long as the hispid-pubescent anthers ; cells subequal, awnless, beard- 

 less. Ovary ovoid, blunt, densely villous, 2-celled. Style about as long 

 as the ovary, puberulous. Fruit oblong, blunt, 'G in. long and '35 in. in 

 diam., smooth, glabrous ; stone minutely but sharply rugose, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded, pulp thin and slightly fibrous. C. Miill. Annot. de fam. 

 Elseocarp. 20, f. 13; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. P>r. Ind. i. 403. 



Singapore ; Wallich, HuUett, Ridley. Malacca; Maingay, Nos. 204, 

 266, (Kew Distrib.). 



20. Elj;oca.rpds Jackiands, Wall. Cat. 2679. A tree 40 to 80 

 feet hio-h : young branches stout, densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate-oblong to elliptic, rarely oblong-ovoid, shortly acumi- 

 nate or acute, edges entire, recurved ; the base rounded or slightly 

 narrowed : upper surface rather dull and pale when diy ; glabrous, the 

 midrib alone sometimes pubescent, the lower softly rufous-tomentose, 

 becoming sub-glabrescent when very old, the minute reticulations dis- 

 tinct; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, sub-ascending, curving, prominent on 

 the lower, impressed on the upper, surface : length 4 to 7 5 in., breadth 

 2-5 to 4-5 in. ; petiole 1'75 to 3 in., stout, thickened at each end, tomen- 

 tose. Bacemes crowded on the branches below the leaves, sometimes 



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