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drous ; anthers red ; ovary smooth, 2-celled ; styles 2, simple and 
free to the base ; capsules drupaceous , obovate- didymous or by abor- 
tion ire ahi "smooth, scarlet or reddish, the size of a large 
cherry-sto 
Has. ,—Freuet in the sch ans aghae all over Chittagong, pie - Mar- 
taban down to Tenasserim.—F. —s.—SS.—=Lat. p. SiS. Met 
ieinee'Woot white, ibe eae coarsely fibrous, perishable. 
EXCOECARIA, L. 
Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious. Calyx 3- to 2-merous, 
the lobes shorter or a connate or quite pret or much reduced 
in the males, imbricate in bud. Petals and disk none. Stamens 
53 or 2, free or connate, central; anthers 2-rimose, the cells ie 
tudinally adnate. Ovary-ruc iment none. Ovar ry 3- or 2- rarely 4- 
celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell ; styles 2-4, simple, con- 
nate at the base, stigmatic on their inner face. Capsule fleshy or 
almost dry, more or less readily capsular-dehiscing, 3- or 2-coccous, 
the central column developed. Seeds without spermaphore or 
arillus.—Trees or shrubs, with usually alternate, rarely opposite, 
simple, cima a or palmati-nerved leaves. Stipules paired. Flowers 
y in terminal or axillary androgynous spikes, the lower 
ones Seale females. 
* Male “arena ase! cored woody, large. 
All sy glabrous; leaves Sonnet . E. Indica, 
* "Male Susser prior oes wer $03 “capsules crustaceous, 
‘aged Padi r aloatioatls and twisting; all 
parts gla 
X Leaves more or i: ees meet toothed or serrate. 
Leaves alternate; capsules as large asa pea. se’ > BR. Agetlocha, 
Leaves opposite; capsule the size of | a aheee po ate etre yee anar Ate age 
eaves quite entire, alternate . . . . . FE. holo 
1. E. Indica, Muell. Arg. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 215. ses ever- 
green tree (20—25 + 8—10 + 3—4), all parts glabrous ;_ bark 
smooth, ash-coloured ; leaves a to. elliptically oblong, ‘obtuse 
or acute at the base, on a 3-4 lin. “long petiole, shortly bluntish 
acuminate, with a mucro, 1-4 in. long, chartaceous, serrulate or 
crenate-serrulate, glabrous, the lateral nerves very thin and faint ; 
owers small, yellowish, shortly pedicelled, forming glabrous posts 
at the end of the branchlets or of the axillary shoots, the females 
at the base and few in number; calyx 3-merous ; goed ally 
3; ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, long, foeetrs oo the b psules 
ry an and woody, the size of a small wood-apple, esincat Fibalar. 
usually 3-coccous, somewhat lentcellate-ronghish or smooth; seeds 
smooth, pale-coloured, not arillat 
Has.—In the tidal forests of Cokes Vebiieeti —¥ Apr.—lL—S8S.=Sal. 
