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only, fruiting specimens, I. have provisionally placed it in, dlsodeia, 
though the numerous seeds are rather opposed to its admission. I. do 
not find anything like it either in the Kew or British Museum. Herbaria. 
Mr. Storck says (‘ Bonplandia,’ x. p. 295), “the flowers. are greenish 
and the fruit yellow." The leaves, when in very young bud, are. co- 
vered with silky, whitish hairs ; but after expansion they are perfectly 
glabrous, the largest being 5 inches long and from 2-22 inches broad. 
Capsule 2 of an inch long, drooping. 
ELmocarpus Graf, Seem. n. sp. ; ramulis petiolis peduncalis 
pedicellis calycibusque rufo-tomentellis, foliis obovatis v. oblongis acu- 
minatis basi obtusis dentatis. coriaceis utrinque. glabris subtus palli- 
dioribus, racemis ex axilla foliorum delapsorum nascentibus 3-12- 
floris, floribus parvis nutantibus solitariis v. geminis, . sepalis ovato- 
lanceolatis acutis sestivatione. valvatis. extus l- intus 3-nerviis, petalis 
fimbriatis (albidis) glabris, staminibus numerosis glabris, antheris longe 
aristatis, ovario villoso 2-loculari, drupa . . .—Viti Levu (Graffe!, n. 59).. 
One of the small-flowering species, named in honour of its disco- 
verer, Dr. Greeffe, and in look extremely like E, leptostachys, Wall; 
List, n. 2692, from Penang ; but the leaves of Æ. leptostachys (in a dried. 
state) are not pale-green, but brown or ferruginous on the under side, 
the flower-buds are ovate, obtuse, and the anthers are blunt; resembling 
those of Z. bifidus, Hook, and Arn. I take Z. leptostachys to be iden- 
tical with Z. ovalifolius, Wall. List, n. 2665, from Sylhet, and, accord- 
ing to the original specimens at the British Museum, with Craspedum 
tectorum of Loureiro, from Cochinchina, of which J. tectorius, Poir., and 
Dicera Craspedum, Gmel., are synonyms.* Endlicher regarded Æ. i- | 
Jlorus, Hook. and Arn., as the type of a genus (Beythea), the anthers 
of which are very different from those of the other Higocarpi.. If, it 
should be kept up, either as a separate genus or a subgenus, its name will 
have to be suppressed in favour of Craspedum, the oldest of the two. 
The leaves of Æ. Greffei, including petiole, are from 5—6 inches long. 
and from 2-3 inches broad, less coriaceous than those of E. Storckii. 
Racemes longer than the petiole, but shorter than the blade of the leaf. 
Flower-buds ovate, acute. : 
* The synonymy of this plant is as follom — Maanas us tectorius, Poir, . TA 
leptostachys, Wall.! E. ovalifolius, Wall. | Dicera Crea pedes Cel ] pha 
dum tectorium, Lour.!—Cochinchina (Loureiro! in Mus, Brit), Sylhet (Wallich ! 
n. 2265), Penang (Wallich ! n, 2672). 
