EL^EOOARPUS AMvENUS. (Nat. order Tiliaceee.) . 



ELiEOCARPUS. Linn.— GEN\ CHAR. Sepals 4 or 5, usually valvate. Petals as many, friuged, lobed or rarely entire, inserted round the 

 base of the torus, induplieate-valvate, and embracing some of the outer stamens in the bud. Stamens indefinite, inserted on the torus within a glandu- 

 lar ring ; anthers oblong or linear, opening at the top in 2 valves (that is, the cells placed back to back and opening in short, terminal, eoufluent slits.) 

 Ovary 2 to 5 celled, with 2 or more ovules in each cell ; style subulate. Fruit a drupe, with a hard often bony putamen, 2 to 5 celled or 1 celled by 

 abortion. Seeds solitary in each cell, pendulous (or rarely erect ?), testa hard, albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad, flat or undulate. Trees, leaves alternate 

 or rarely opposite, entire or serrate. Flowers in axillary racemes, sometimes polygamous. (Monocera, Jack.) 



JbjLiEO CARPUS AMiENUS. (Thw.) A middling sized tree, glabrous except the youug leaf buds, leaves ovate or ovato- 

 lanceolate with a short blunt or retuse point, crenate-serrate. furnished with glands in the axils of the leaves beneath, 2-4J inches long 

 by f-2 broad, petioles 4 lines to 1 inch long, racemes puberulous very numerous towards the end of the branches, axillary and from the 

 axils of fallen leaves, anthers quite naked, deeply cleft at the apex, each petal cut down at the apex about |- of its length into about 8 

 segments each with 2-4 fringed points, ovary 3 celled, ovules 2 in each cell attached about the centre of the axis, drupe spherical. 

 Thw. En. PL Zey. p. 32. 



This very beautiful tree is common in the central provinces of Ceylon up to 4000 feet, and is also cultivated in gardens. 



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