122 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Corchoni*. 



5. CORCHORUS OLITORIUS, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 397 ; W. & A. 73. 



Found run wild in many Districts, but probably not in- 

 digenous in S. India. Jute. 



6. CORCHORUS TRILOCULARIS, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 397 ; W. & A. 72. 



Dry Districts of the Deccan and Carnatic, a weed of waste 

 places, roadsides, etc. 



7. CORCHORUS URTICAEFOLIUS, W. & A. 73 ; F. B. I. i. 397. 



Dry Districts of the Carnatic, Salem, Chingleput. 



8. CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 397 ; W. & A. 73 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 311. 



Found run wild occasionally, but not indigenous, less 



common than C. olitorius. Jute. 



Berrya AmmoniUa, Eoxb. ; F. B. I. i. 383 ; W. & A. 86 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. t. 58 is the Trincomali wood tree of Ceylon, frequently culti- 

 vated in Madras and elsewhere, but not yet found wild in S. India. 



Family XXIX. ELAEOCARPACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs without mucilage sacs. Leaves entire, alternate 

 or verticillate ; stipules present, persistent or caducous. Flowers 

 usually hermaphrodite, in axillary racemes, regular. Sepals 46, 

 valvate. Petals 4-6, free, valvate, laciniate or rarely entire, 

 inserted outside the disk. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the 

 cushion-like disk ; anthers linear, opening by terminal pores. 

 Ovary sessile, 2-5-celled, ovules 2 or more in each cell, usually 

 pendulous ; style columnar. Fruit a drupe with a bony usually 

 3-5- sometimes 1-celled stone. Seeds pendulous, 1 to each cell, 

 albumen fleshy, cotyledons flat. 



Elaeocarpus, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves simple, usually crenate or serrate, sometimes 

 entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous, in axillary or 

 lateral racemes. Sepals 4-5, valvate (rarely imbricate), distinct. 

 Petals 4-5, laciniate lobed or rarely entire, inserted round the base 

 of a thickened glandular disk. Stamens numerous, rarely 8-12, 

 inserted between the glands on the disk ; anthers linear, dehiscing 

 by a transverse valve at the top. Ovary 2-5-celled ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell; style subulate, entire. Drupe with a single bony tuber- 

 culate stone divided into 1-5 1 -seeded cells. Seeds pendulous ; 

 testa hard ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad. 



