EL^OCARPUS VENUSTUS. (Nat. order Tiliace».) 



For Geo. Ukar. see letter press to PI. cxi. 



EUEOCARPUS VENUSTUS. (Bedd.) A large tree, glabrous in all its parts except the flowers, leaves elliptic to 

 oblong or sometimes obovate, slightly acute or quite rounded at the apex attenuated at the base, serratures shallow distant and incon- 

 spicuous, coriaceous, 3-4£ inches long by l£-2 broad, furnished with very large glands in the axils of the primary veins beneath, which 

 often terminate in a pointed or bifid process raised above the lamina of the leaf, the glands form prominent convex marks on the upper 

 side of the leaf, petioles 6-8 lines long, racemes axillary lax 4-8 flowered as long or a little longer than the leaves, pedicels distant 

 12-16 lines lon<* with a minute deciduous bracteole at the base of each, flowers 12-16 lines in expansion pure white and very fragrant, 

 calyx glabrous on the outside, pubescent within, divisions thick and coriaceous, petals a little longer than the calyx 3 cleft with each 

 division 5-6 fingered, rather densely silky on the outside, nearly glabrous within except the hairy raised process at the base, the linear 

 anthers and filaments hairy, the upper valve with a short point, ovary glabrous 2 celled, cells with 6 ovules in 2 rows, style subulate 

 very slightly hairy, drupe not seen. 



A fine large tree only observed in the Muti-kuli vayal, South Travancore, 4500 feet elevation, in flower in August ; it is truly beauti- 

 ful when covered with its snow white large flowers, which it produces in great abundance; it has only jvst been discovered, and should be added, 

 to the Manual at page xxxviii. 



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