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anthers) shorter than tlie pistil ; filaments glabrescent or glabrous, 

 those of the perfect stamens dilated at the base. Ovary pubescent, 

 style glabrous, stigma discoid-capitate. Follicles broad, obliquely sub- 

 rhomboid, tapered to the base, the dorsal suture straight and ending in 

 a conical point, the ventral compressed and widely curved, glabrous, red 

 when ripe, 25 in. long and 15 in. broad ; pericarp woody, adpressed- 

 pubescent on its inner surface. Seed oblong, flat ; the testa black, half 

 covered by a thiu basal arillus. E rythrostigma ellipticum, ZoU. in 

 Tijdscli. Ned. Ind. XIV, 174. 



Singapore ; Ridley, No. 1380. Perak ; King's Collectors, Nos. 4090, 

 4943,5958, 7480,8435. Wray ; Nos. J831, 2870, 2873; Scortechini, 

 No. 1689. Penang; Curtis. 



There is a specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium collected by Kurz in the Buiten- 

 zorg garden which exactly agrees with this. That specimen is named Erythrostigma 

 ellipticum Zoll. ; and it is on the strength of this identification of Kurz's that I 

 have included this synonym here. For Zollinger (who refers the genus Erythros- 

 tigma to Anacardiacese) defines his three species (1. c.) E. ellipticum, E. ohliquum 

 and E. villosum so briefly and imperfectly, that it is quite impossible, from his des- 

 criptions alone, to identify any of them. 



2. Ellipanthus, Hook. f. 



Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves with 1 leaflet, quite entire. Racemes 

 or cymes axillary, short. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 

 5, not enlarged in fruit, sub-erect, valvate. Petals 5, longer than the 

 sepals, oblong-lanceolate, densely pubescent. Stamens 10, 5 shorter 

 without anthers ; filaments short, subulate, connate at the base. Ovary 

 1, pubescent ; style short. Follicle stalked, oblique, velvetty ; valves 

 glabrous within. Seed arillate, albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex. — 

 DiSTRiB. 12 species ; Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 



Both surfaces of leaves quite glabrous. 



Leaflet narrowly elliptic-oblong, tapering to each end ; 

 follicles 5 in. long 



Leaflet elliptic-ovate to elliptic; follicle 1 in. long 

 Under surfaces of leaves hairy. 



Leaflet oblong- lanceolate, 25 to 3-5 in. long ; flowers in 



short panicles 



Leaflets ovate- or oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 4 to 6 in long. 



Flowers in racemes, follicle with a pseudo-stalk only '2 



in. long ... 



Flowers in dense capituloid cymes ; follicle gibbous at 



the base on one side, its pseudo-stalk about 1 in. long .. 



I. Ellipanthds Scortechinii, King n. spec. A small tree; young 

 branches with pale cinereous bark, pubescent. Leaflet thinly coriaceous, 

 narrowly elliptic-oblong, tapering from the middle to either end, the 



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