162 TILIACER, [ Echinocarpus. 
white, forming dense, short clusters or very pee peduncled cluster- 
like Scmentoas cymes in the axils of the ves ; 
shorter than the flower-buds, oblong, acute, blackish when dried, 
appressed hirsute outside, or linear-lanceolate and longer than the 
buds; sepals densely rusty pubescent or appressed tawny hispid ; 
petals about 4 lin. long, oblong, blunt, the blade nearly as long as 
the villously frmged thickened basal scale ; ovary hirsute; drupes 
the size of a large pea, sparingly hirsute, soon glabrescent, deeply é 
4-lobed from the top and 4-pyrenous, the lobes almost spreading, 
the stones l-seeded. A very variable shrub as to indument and tex- 
ture of ES ete. 
, unfrequent in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and 
oe ok open ‘oes the low and Eng forests) of Pegu, Prome and Marta’ 
ay 
G. Scl phe wey. Wall, (Brand. For. Fl. 39.) —With still acta 
flowers and almos t globular entire = of the size of a cherry, 1s 
said to occur in Ava and Chittagong 
ECHINOCARPUS, BI. 
Sepals 4-5, imbricate. Petals 4-5, variously cut. Stamens numer- 
ous, free, arising from a thick disk; anther-cells opening by a te 
nal pore. Ovary 3-6-celled, with many ovules in each cell; style 
subulate. Capsule woody or coriaceous, 3-6- or by abortion fewer 
I umen fleshy.—Trees with simple leaves. she teh 
tary or clustered in the axils of the leaves. 
Leaves entire, tufted-hairy in the nerv peas pet —e 
of capsule strong, aed thickened ath . 2B. Sigun, 
Leaves crenate-serrate or toothed, at md we coe puberulous 
beneath, the prickles lines, all. thin ubulate . E. sterculiaceus. 
1. E. = Bl. .(£. murea, Sis: ILE. i Fl. i. 399.)— 
A large tree, all glabrous or nearly so; leaves elliptically 
ae to cblong-laeeolat, 3-5 in. long, ona long glabrous petiole, 
rounded to acute at base, usually quite entire or obsoletely crenate- 
acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous, an wi 
of Som in the nerve-axils beneath ; flowers genes k on rather long 
ry peduncles ; petals 4-5, ovate, 3 3-cleft at summit ; filamen 
panier A te ee puberulous ; capsules ovoid-globular, shortly 
tomentose een the prickles, woody, densely or laxly covered 
with 5 to 6 tin, jess rigid, minutely hispid priékles. arising from a 
thickened base and terminating in a rather bluntish point. 
HAs.—Tenasserim hills —Fr. Apr. 
2. E. sterculiaceus, Bth.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 400.—A 
eer leaves ae phlne: on an 41g in. ts 
