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EKffiOCARPUS FERRUGINETTS. (Nat. order Tiliaoeje.) 



-Cor 6eu. Char, see letter press to PI. uxi. 



ELiEOCAKPUS FERRUGINEUS. (Wight.) A good sized tree, young shoots densely villous, leaves cucullate very 

 coriaceous ovate to elliptic serrulate, with a bluntish rather sudden point at the apes, at first villous above with fugacious tonientum, 

 at length glabrous, densely and closely tomentose beneath, stipules linear acute glabrous viscid and shining above, downy at the base 

 on the back, early caducous, racemes axillary or from the old axils just below the leaves, a little shorter than the leaves, tomentose as 

 are the calyx, petals and ovary, flowers less than £ an inch long, pedicels about the same length drooping slightly elongating in fruit, 

 petals involute at the margins furnished with a prominent ridge up the inner face about 9 fringed but not otherwise, divided, anthers 

 puberulous along the cells furnished with a long awn from the exterior valve, ovary 3 celled, ovaries 6-8 in 2 rows in each cell, drupe 

 oval smooth a little more than £ an inch long. Monocera ferruginea, Wight Icones tab. 225. 



A very common tree on the NilgirU, Anamallays and Pulneys, at the higher elevations. Thernargins of the leaves are always connivent, 

 rendering the leaves quite boat-shaped. The timber is used for building purposes. Wight figures the ovary as 4 celled, but in several flowers that 

 I have dissected it is 3 celled. 



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