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SCOLOPIA CRENATA. (Nat. order BixineEe.) 



ScOLOPIA. Schreb. Gen. PI p. 127. — QEN. CHAE.' Flowers heirnathrodite, sepals 4-6 slightly imbricate when very young but opeu long be- 

 fore flowering, petals as many and nearly similar, stamens indefinite inserted on to the thickened torus with or without glands. Connective of the anthers 

 terminating in a thick process ; ovary with 3-4 placentas and few ovules. Style filiform, with an entire or lobed stigma ; fruit a berry, seed 2-4 with a hard 

 testa, cotyledons leafy. Trees, often armed with axillary spines, leaves simple with pinnate veins entire or toothed. Flowers small in axillary racemes. 

 Schreb. Gen. 335. Phoberos, Lour. Fl. Cock. 317. Ebinanthera, Bl. Bijdr. 1121. Dasyanthera, Presl. Bel. Bank. ii. 90. t. 66. 



OCOLOPIA CRENATA. (Wight.) A good sized tree, unarmed, leaves glabrous elliptic slightly attenuated at the base and 

 gradually narrowed into an obtuse point at the apex, obtusely crenated, without glands at the base, 3-4 inches long by 1-1| broad, 

 racemes pubescent as long or a little longer than the leaves from the superior axils, flowers nearly -£ an inch in diameter on longish 

 peduncles which are furnished with 2-3 small bracts at the base, calyx and corol scarcely distinguishable pubescent and ciliated, 

 placentas of the ovary 4, fruit 5 lines in diameter apiculate. Phoberos crenatus, WA. Prod. p. 29. Flacourtia crenata, Wall I. n. 

 6679. Phoberos lanceolatus, (Wight). WA. Prod. p. 30. 



This trei is very common on the Shevaroys, Nilgiris, &c. ; it is called Hitterloo by Me Burghers on the Nilgiris ; it is a first-rate -wood, 

 | and although while, is very hard and dense ; it resists the saw and injures tools ; planks are said to hoist. The Phoberos lanceolatus of Wight has 

 the leaves narrower and more shining but does not differ otherwise. 



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