234 | OLACINER. [ Erythropatum. 
nate, revolutely marginate, glabrous, often blackish-dotted beneath, 
the nerves and veins conspicuous ; flowers small, white, on rather 
slender pedicels, forming short axillary glabrous racemes; petals 
about 2 lin. long; staminodes 2-cleft at apex ; drupes the size of 
a pea, for more than one-half uncovered by the enlarged, cup-shaped, 
free, membranous calyx, apiculate, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Ava. 
3. 0. imbricata, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 575.—A large arbore- 
ous climber, all parts glabrous, the branchlets terete ; leaves oblong 
or ovate-oblong, 4-5 in. long, obtuse at base, on short strong 
petioles, acute, entire, coriaceous, glossy above, the nerves conspicu- 
ous beneath; flowers rather large, white, forming short, dense 
racemes in the axils of the leaves; petals 4-5 lin. long; filaments 
glabrous; staminodes 2-cleft at apex ; drupes oval, perfectly en- 
closed in the globose, fleshy, when dry, leathery calyx of the size of 
a small cherry. 
Has.—Chittagong; Tenasserim.—Fr. Febr. 
ERYTHROPALUM, BI. 
h t Ovary hi 
mersed in the disk, 1-celled, containing 2-3 pendulous ovules ; style 
very short; drupes quite enclosed in, and adnate to, the enlarged 
calyx, at apex marked by the scars of the calyx-limb, containing 
a crustaceous l-seeded nut. Seed pendulous. Albumen fleshy. 
—Scandent glabrous shrubs, with 3-nerved entire leaves. Flowers 
4, eymose, some of the peduncles transformed into tendrils. 
1. E, scandens, Bl.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 578.—A large woody 
scandent shrub, all parts glabrous; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 
about in. long, almost peltate, long-petioled, 3-nerved at 
» acuminate or acute, entire, glabrous, beneath glaucescent, 
: Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
inca x from Martaban ae | to Tenasserim.—FI. Apr.—s.SS. = ; 
