| Ellipanthus. J CONNARACER, oy s:) 
velvety-tomentose outside and bright red, densely tawny setose 
within, thick and fleshy coriaceous, acid and edible. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma in the tropical and low forests from Pegu 
and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl, R. S.; Fr. Apr.- 
May.—s: 1],—SS.—petrophilous, Metam. Lat. p. 
RemarKs.—Wood soft and white. 
» ae 4 ramiflora, Griff.—Very like the preceding, but an erect 
shrub or small tree and the leaflets much. alternate and usually 
more acute ; flowers larger, on longer pedicels ; sepals about 2 lin 
long ; rest as in preceding species. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
ELLIPANTHUS, Hf. 
Calyx 5-parted, not enlarging, nearly erect, valvate. Petals 5, 
longer than the calyx, imbricate. Stamens 10, the alternating 5 
without anthers ; filaments short, subulate, united ina tube at the 
base. Carpel solitary, dehiscing along the outer suture, tapering in 
ashort style. Follicle stalked, coriaceous, glabrous within. Aril- 
lus basilar. Albumen none.—Small trees or shrubs, with 1-foliol- 
ate leaves. Flowers small, in axillary short racemes. 
X Both surfaces of leaf glabrous. 
Leaves and petiole glabrous fae, ee ee 
Midrib beneath and petiole puberulous. . . . . . &. Helferi. 
X X Leaves pubescent or puberulous beneat: eG oe tomentosus. 
1. 2 calophyllus, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fi. ii. 55.—A little ever- 
green tree, 15 to 25 ft. high, with a girth of 2-3 ft., the leaf-buds 
tawny pubescent ; leaves 1-foliolate, ovate-oblong to oblong, on a 
glabrous petiole an inch long or longer, bluntish acuminate, 5-6 in 
ong, almost coriaceous, entire, glabrous, copiously and elegantly 
small, on straight rather short densely puberulous pedicels, forming 
short densely puberulous axillary racemes hardly an inch long; petals 
linear-oblong, densely velvety, about 3 lin. long; follicles obliquely 
oblong, tapermg in a short and thick stalk, compressed, apiculate, 
about an inch long, coriaceous, velvety-tomentose, glabrous within 
, Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans,—Fl. May; Fr. 
June-July.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
