Erythroxylon. | LINER. 171 
ERYTHROXYLON, L. 
Sepals 5, free or connate. Petals 5, with an erect double scale 
on the inner face, imbricate. Stamens 10 or 12, united in a tube. 
Ovary 3- rarely 4-celled, with 1 or 2 ovules in each cell. Drupe by 
abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded. Albumen none or present.—Shrubs 
or small trees, with alternate simple entire leaves. Stipules intra- 
petiolar. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, or fascicled. 
* Styles free from the pi 3 leaves shortly acuminate - E. Kunthianum. 
* *& Styles united ha he 
Leaves obovate or oblong, bl fivig P  itedla about 3 Sara Bova Bo » E. monogynum. 
Leaves broadly obovate or oblétigy retuse ; pedicels - BB i 
E. Kunthianum, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 414.—A small tree 
(20-80 +4—10 4+2—3), stunted, shedding leaves in the CS., all 
— Epirus leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse at 
ong, shortly and bluntish acuminate, rarely blunt, 
hort but slenderly petioled, entire, glabrous, chartaceous, glaucous 
beneath; stipules subulate ; flowers small, white, on about 3 in. 
long slender pedicels thickened upwards, usually by pairs in the 
axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the fallen ones ; petals 
oblong, with a large 2-lobed scale inside; stamens alternately 
shorter ; ovary ovate; styles 3, short and thi ck, free from the base ; 
drupes elliptically oval, k- seeded, crimson, glossy. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill-forests, especially the stunted ones, 
on the Martaban hills east of To anghoo, at 6.000 to 7200 feet elevation also 
in the Thoung-gyeen hills of Tenasse eem—Vi 3 == Metam 
E, monogynum, Roxb., according to Dr. Mason, is said t 
occur in fe Bure It is a small glabrous tree with blunt leaves, the 
white small flowers on 8 rarely up to 6 lin. long pedicels, and styles 
united for 3 of their length. 
2. E. Burmanicum, Griff.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 414.—A small — 
tree with compressed bran chlets, all parts quite glabrous; leaves 
broadly obovate or oblong, 3-4 in. long, very shortly petioled, 
retuse, entire, chartaceous or almost coriaceous, glaucous beneath, 
— stipules err acuminate; flowers small, 
2-3 lin. long pedicels thickened upwards, usually arising 
cite 
several from the axils of Pprarratt petals -white, 
teeny inside with a toothed, erect, petalo ; stamens 10, 
es 1 s oe A j 
erect, the alternating ones spreading ; filaments slender, abruptly 
arising from the Dat truneate staminal tube ; styles united for : 
of their length; stigmas capitate ; drupes red, 3-angled, 1- 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl.-Apr. 
