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_ Sprc. Car. Tree: leaves cuneate-obovate, remotely serrulate ¢ 
yacemes lax, simple: pedicels slender, drooping: filaments hairy > 
drupe oval: nut compressed, much tubercled on each side, 1-2- 
celled: flowers largish, white. 
Neilgherries. Travancore. Flowering in February and Mareh. 
The nuts of this sacred tree are sold by holy men to the Hindoos, 
setin gold, and worn by them as religious ornaments. 
(2) M. rucosa. ( Wight.) 
Ident. Wight’s Ill. I. p. 83. 
' Syn. Eleocarpus rugosus, Roxb. fl. Ind, Il. p. 596. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 61. 
Srec. Cuar. Large tree: leaves subsessile, obovate-oblong, 
serrated: racemes numerous, shorter than the leaves, spreading 
horizontally : drupe obovate, smooth: nut oblong, wrinkled; thick- 
ish at the margin: flowers large, long-pedicelled, drooping, white. 
Chittagong and Assam, flowering in March. 
(8) M. Roxsurenu. (Wight.) 
Ident, Wight’s Ill. I. p. 83. 
Syn. Eleocarpus aristatus, Roxb. fl. Ind. Il. p. 599. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 63. 
Spec. Cuar. Large tree: leaves obovate-cuneate, obtusely ser= 
rulate: stamens awned: racemes axillary, drooping, somewhat 
hairy : petals very hairy, particularly on the outside: hairs white, 
‘depressed: drupe size and colour of a large olive: nut oblong, 
pointed at both ends, ribbed on each of the flat sides, surface slight~ 
ly wrinkled: flowers large, yellow, fragrant. 
Silhet, flowering in April. 
(4) M. Munron. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s TH. I. p. 84. 
Engrav. Wight’s Spicil. I. t, 18. 
Srrc. Cuar. Tree: leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrulate, acumfs 
nated, without glands on the underside: racemes about the length 
of the leaves, many-flowered : flowers drooping : anthers glabrous : 
ovary elevated on a disk, very hairy: drupe the size of an olive: 
flowers white. 
Coorg and valleys near Coonoor, flowering. in November. The 
fruit is eaten by the natives. 
(5) M. rerrveinra, (R. W.) 
_ Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. I. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 205. 
