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23. ELiEOCARPDS Mastersii, King. A tree 30 to 50 feet high : 

 young branches as thin as a crow-quill, smooth, puberulous ; otherwise 

 glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong- 

 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often caudate ; the edge 

 slightly cartilaginous, remotely and faintly serrate, the base cuneate; 

 both surfaces shining and with the rather transverse reticulations 

 distinct; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, faint, spreading, interarching with- 

 in the edge; length of blade 2-75 to 4"5 in., breadth '8 to 1'4 in, ; petiole 

 •5 to '75 in., slender. Racemes few-flowered, less than half as long as 

 the leaves, from the axils under the apex ; rachises and pedicels puberu- 

 lous, becoming glabrous. Floioers 2 in diam. ; buds narrowly ovoid, 

 pointed. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, puberulous or glabrescent 

 outside : glabrous inside on the lower, often puberulous in the upper 

 half and slightly on the infolded edges. Petals 4, oblanceolate or nar- 

 rowly cuneate, the rouuded apex with about 15 short teeth, thickened 

 towards the base, veined, glabrous. Torus a very shallow wavy pubes- 

 cent disk. Stamens 8 or 9, shorter than the petals, filaments nearly as 

 long as the sub-scaberulous anthers ; the cells blunt at the apex, awu- 

 less. Ovary (absent in many flowers^, ovoid, blunt, glabrous, 2-celled. 

 Style about as long as the ovary, thick, cylindric, grooved, glabrous. 

 Fruit ovoid-globose, the apex slightly pointed, smooth, '35 in. long and 

 •25 in. in diam. ; pulp thin and without fibres ; stone smooth, cartilagi- 

 nous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Elmocarptis Acronodia, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Bx-. Ind. i. 401, in part (excl. syn. Acronodia punctata, Bl.). 



Malacca; Griffith, No. 681; Maingay, No. 261, (Kew Distrib.). 

 Singapore ; Hullett, Ridley. Perak ; common at low elevations, King's 

 Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 



This is a true Acronodia allied to A. punctata, Bl. ( = EUeocarpus 

 punctatus. King, not of Wall.) but is di.stinguished by its less acuminate 

 longer petiolate leaves, slightly different flowers and smaller, more glo- 

 bose fruit. This occurs at low elevations and is a tree whereas the 

 other is a shrub and is found as high as 7000 feet. 



Excluded species. 



El^eocaupus punctatus, Wall. Cat. 2676 is, (as Kurz pointed out) 

 no Elipjjcarpus but a Parinariiim. Maingay's Nos. 621 and 621/2 (Kew 

 Distribution) seem to be conspecific with it. 



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