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Masters states that the prickles of E. murex are dilated at the hase ; 

 the Khasya specimens No. 5. Hb. or. Hf. and Th., liowever, exhibit not a 

 vestige of dilatation being simply incrassate at base just as those of the 

 Javanese plant. The sigun is a common tree in the hill-forests of western. 

 Java and there well-known to Dutch botanists. 



2. E. STERCULIACEUS,. Bth. in Linn. Proc. V. Suppl. 72 ; Hf. Ind. 

 Fl. I. 400. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the drier hill-forests of Martaban ; Tenasse- 

 rim, Moulmein District (Falconer) ; Birma (GrifF. 675). 



Elseoearpus, L. 



Conspectus of species. 



Suhg. 1. Monoceras. Anthers cuspidate or aristate. Flowers usually rather large, the 

 petals silky-hairy, fringed or very rarely entire. 



* Petals entire with a few short teeth at apex or simply fringed, not cut or 



cleft. Petioles continuous, not geniculate-incrassate. 



O Inflorescence and sepals outside almost glabrous. ■ 

 All pai'ts glabrous, ... ... .. ... ,».JE. petiolattis. 



O O Inflorescence and sepals outside silky-pubescent. 

 Glabrous; petals entire, acuminate; pedicels |-f in. long, ... .. ^. Qriffithii. 



Glabrous ; petals deeply but simply fringed ; pedicels 3 4 lin. long, ...E. Varunua. 



* * Petals 2-3-cieft, the lobes jagged or fringed ; anthers glabrous or puberu- 



lous. 



O Petiole geniculate-thickened at apex. 



f Inflorescence with long-persistent leafy bracts. 

 All parts also sepals and inflorescence glabrous, ... ... ,..!]. Iracteatus. 



•j" f Bracts of inflorescence small, very deciduous. 



X Racemes and sepals glabrous or nearly so, ...JE. simplex. 



Ys % Racemes and sepals more or less tomentose or pubescent. 

 Leaves 1-1^^ ft. long, cuneate- acuminate at base, acute ; anthers shorter than the bristle j 

 drupes puberulous, the putamen slightly compressed, ... ...E. grandifolius. 



Leaves i-1 ft. long, rounded at the narrowed base ; leaves glabrous or nearly so ; puta- 

 men terete, ... ••. ... ... ...E. rugosiis. 



O O Petiole continuous, not geniculate-thickened at apex. 

 Glabrous. Putamen long recurved-aculeate, ... ... ...E. grandijlorus- 



Putamen lacunose-tubercled ; leaves blunt, very thick coriaceous, glabrous, E. littoralis. 

 Subg. 2. Elceocarpi veri. Anthers blunt, or the longer valve sharply produced ; flowers 

 small ; petals glabrous, 



f Putamen even and usually slightly rimose, or obsoletely Avrinkled. 

 Calyx and pedicels glabrous. 

 Leaves glabrous, blistered-speckled and opaque ; petioles long, thickened at the summit ; 

 anthers bearded, ... ... ... ... .. E. floribundus. 



Leaves glabrous, opaque, acuminate ; petiole not geniculate-thickened, ...E. lancecsfoUus . 



Leaves glabrous, blunt or rounded at apex ; petioles short but slender, not thickened ; 



anthers naked ; drupes unknown, .. ... ...E. hygrophilus. 



f f Putamen wrinkled or tubercled. Calyx and pedicels puberulous. 

 Ys Petioles not geniculate-thickened at apex. 



