ELL1PANTHUS TJNIFOLIATUS. (Nat. order Connaraceaj.) 



ELLIPAXTIIUS. Bool fiL—GRy. CHAR. Flowers polygamous, calyx 5 parted not increasing in size after flowering subereefc valvate, 

 petals 5 longer than the calyx oblongs-lanceolate pubescent imbricate, stamens 5 fertile alternate with as many shorter sterile ones, filaments short subulate 

 connate at the base into a hirsute tube, carpel 1 ovoid strigose attenuated into a short style, stigma lobulate; capsule stipitate volutinous, glabrous 

 within, seed arillate at the base, exalburuinous. Trees or shrubs, leaves short petioled 1 foliate, oblong or lanceolate glabrous or slightly tomentose 

 beneath, racemes short axillary tomentose, flowers small. 



ELLIPANTHUS UNIFOLIATUS. (Thtv.) A middling sized tree 20-30 feet high, branches and petioles blackish, 

 young parts fusco-pilose, leaves 1 -foliate glabrous elliptic or ovate abruptly acuminate reticulate, l|-3-| inches long by 1-lf inches 

 broad, petiolule tumid 1 line long rugulose articulate with the petiole which is 3 lines long, panicles small axillary 1-2 or 3 together 

 racemiforni 4-7 flowered, fusco-hirsute, bracteoles linear deciduous, flowers pale green about 3 lines in expansion, short pedicelled calyx 

 divisions acute, petals externally pilose twice as long as the calyx, stamens 5 joined into a tube alternate with 5 minute teeth-like 

 staminodes, ovary strigose attenuated into a short style, stigma dilated, fruit fulvo-tomentose arcuato-falcate acute attenuated at the 

 base into a stipe. — Connarus unifoliatus, Thw. En. PI. Zey. p. 80. EUipanthus, Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL 1. p. 434. 



Ceylon in the central provinces, 3-4000 feet, rather a rare tree. 



1. 



Analysis. 

 A flower bud. 



2. 



A flower. 



3. 



A fertile flower, petals removed. 



4. 



Stamen tube showing the 6 fertile stamens alternate with 5 minute staminodia. 



5. 



Anthers, front and back view. 



6. 



Ovary. 



7. 



The same cut vertically. 



8. 



The same cut transversely. 



9. 



A sterile flower. 



10 to 14. 



Fruit and seed. 





(Figures 9—14 communicated by Dr. Thwaites.) 



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