482 *:entandria monogynia; Elaodendrum. 



1. E. glaucum, Persoon. Synops. ii. 241. Roxb Corom. ii. 2. 



Leaves opposite, oblong, senate. Panicles axillary, dichotom- 

 ies. Drapes spherical. 



iSchrebera albem, Willd. spec. i. 1092. 



Celastrus glaucus, Vahl. si/mb. ii. 42. 



Mangifera glauca, Rottb. in Nov. Act. Havn. ii. 534. t. 4. f. 1. 



A middle-sized, or rather small tree, native of various parts of 

 India. From Ceylon it was received into the botanic ^atden at 

 Calcutta, under the name Ceylon tea; its leaves are like those of 

 that plant but much longer; their taste slightly bitter and astrin- 

 gent. It flowers in May ; the seeds ripen in September and October. 



Trunk straight. Bark in young trees, smooth, and olive-colour- 

 ed. Branches numerous, spreading in every direction, and form- 

 ing a very dense, ova! head; young shoots round, and smooth.— 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, and cunea:e-obiong, some- 

 times very acutely, and sometimes obtusely serrate; texture hard, 

 with both surfaces polished, the upper shining ; apex rather obtuse, 

 and always bent down, from three to four inches long, and about two 

 broad. — Stipules a minute scale on each side of the inside of the base 

 ©f each short, polished petiole. — Panicles axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves; all its divisions dichotomous and divaricate. — Flowers pedi- 

 celled, small, greenish yellow. — Bractes small, oblong, from one to 

 three, at the base of each pedicel, and at the divisions of the pa- 

 nicle. — Calyx of five, somewhat unequal, round, concave, caducous 

 leaflets.— Petals five, expanding, linear-oblong, sessile. — Nectary 

 a green, pentagonal, fleshy, scalloped gland, in which a great part 

 of the germ is immersed. — Filaments five, inserted on the nectary, 

 scarcely half the length of the petals ; at first nearly erect, but by age 

 becoming so much revolute as to bring the roundish, two-lobed an. 

 ihers under the calyx. — Germ superior, immersed in the very large, 

 green, fleshy nectary, two-celled, with two ovuia in each, attached to 

 the bottom of their cells. Style short, conic. Stigma simple, ob- 

 tuse. — Drupe nearly round, size of a large cherry, smooth, pulpy, 

 when ripe olive-f^'oed, one celled. Nat oval, rather more acn^ 



