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base, serrate towards the short: rather blunt point, chartaceous, 3-6 
in. long, glabrous ; flowers 5-merous, small, 3-4 lin. in diameter, 
on short but slender pedicels, forming long- aie slender, 
dichotomous cymes, either solitary in the axils of the leaves or al- 
‘most racemose along the young axillary branchlets; petals white, 
“entire, broadly oblong; disk green; capsule about 5-6 lin. long, 
obeordate, sharply 5-4-cornered. 
Has. Stipa ting ; not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and 
Tenasse rare in those of the a slopes of the Pegu Yomah.—FI. 
Marh-Ape Fr. Sept.—s.—SS.—=Met 
RemarKs.— Wood of a brown- ilowiak colour, turning brown, heavy, coarsel 
frou; sate close-grained, r sather hard, but soon attacked by xyicutiiges: 
2. E, Javanicus, Bl.; H-f. Ind. Fi. i. 607.—An evergreen 
tree (30 +10— —12+1}—2) with terete birainletee all parts quite 
glabrous ; leaves elliptical, obovate-oblong to oblong, on a short 
but slender petiole, somewhat narrowed towards the acute base, 
shortly acuminate, entire or slightly serrate towards dhe’ point, 5-6 
in. long, chartaceous, glabrous; flowers about 5-6 lin. across, on 
straight usually 6-8 lin. long (but often also much shorter or enger) 
strong pedicels, several together arising from short rus Be 
tubercles, or almost solitary ; petals oblong, long-fringed ; stamens 
5 ; the filaments inserted in the grooves of the disk-lobes ; cpa 
pyriform or obovate, 5-10 lin. long, sharply §-4.cornered, termi- 
ae ina sharp point or acuminate, smooth ; the valves almost 
y: 
Has.—Tropical forests of Tenasserim.—Fl. March.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
RemarxKs.—Wood like that of the preceding species. 
: 3. E, calocarpus, Kz. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 609.—A shrub or tree (?), 
with terete branchlets, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, shortly and bluntish-acumi- 
nate, entire, almost coriaceous, 4-6 in. long, pale beneath ; capsules 
on very short glabrous peduncles or almost sessile, usually obsoletely 
4-lobed = 4-valved, quite smooth, with a single red-arilled seed 
in eack 
Haz eae 
4. E. Griffithii, Kz. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 611.—An evergreen shrub, 
with ‘comered almost. winged branches, all parts glabrous ; Mavis 
oe deer or oblong, 2-3 in. long, on a very short petiole or 
obtuse at base, almost entire or ome serrate, 
in the axils 0 
Shorter than them ; calyx broad, nearly 2 lin. in diameter, 4-lobed ; 
