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3. Erythrospermum, Lamarck. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Flowers racemed, 
fascicled or pauicled, 2-sexual. Sepals 4-6, imbricate in bnd. Petals 
4-6, usually small. Stamens 4-6 ; anthers lanceolate-sagittate, connec- 
tive dilated. Ovary 1-celled ; style short, stigma entire or 3-4-fid ; 
ovules many, on 3-4 parietal placentas. Capsule coriaceous, 3-4-valved \ 
valves bearing the seeds on the middle. Seeds few, testa coriaceous or 
fleshy; embryo incurved. Disfcrib. Species about 8, of which 6 aro 
Mascarene, one is from Ceylon, and the following Malayan. 
E. Scobtechinii, King n. sp. A small glabrous tree, the branehlets 
lenticellate. Leaves thickly membranous, broadly ob-lauceolato, abrupt- 
ly shortly and bluntly acuminate, faintly crenate-serrate, the base slight- 
ly narrowed ; nerves 5 to 6 pairs, thin, anastomosing *25 in. from t ho 
margin ; length 4 to 6 in., breadth 2 to 2"5 in. ; petiole "5 in. ; Stipules 
caducous. Racemes two to four in a lax terminal panicle, 3 to 4 in. 
long in flower, and twice as long in fruit. Ovary glabrous, 12 — 20 ovuled ; 
style glabrous ; stigma 3-lohed. Capsules on thin pedicels '5 in. long, 
globular, smooth, '35 in., iti diam., crowned by the conical style with 
3-cleft stigma, 3-valved, 1-seeded. Seed sub-globular with red pulp. 
Perak. Scortechini. 
This species was collected only once by Father Scortechini ; and 
he found no flowers. He describes it as a tree 30 to 40 feet high. 
No species of the genns has hitherto been described from any 
Ala lay an province, Ceylon being the nearest country in which one is in- 
digenous. 
4. Flacourtia, Commers. 
Trees or shrubs, often spinous. Leaves toothed or crenate. Flow- 
ers small, dioecious, rarely 2-sexual. Sepals 4-5, small, imbricate. Petals 
0. Stamens many j anthers versatile. Ovary on a glandular disk ; 
styles 2 or more, stigmas notched or 2-lobed ; ovules usually in pah's 
on each placenta. Fruit in dehiscent ; endocarp hard, with as many cells 
as seeds. Seeds obovoid, testa coriaceous ; cotyledouB orbicular. Dis- 
trib. About 12 species, natives of the Old World, some being cultivated 
in various tropical countries. 
Flacourtia Rueam, Zoll. et. Moritzi Verz. 33. A tree; the young 
branches puberulous and lenticellate. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
membranous, shortly acuminate, slightly and remotely crenate-serrate, the 
base narrowed, glabrous except the puberulous petiole and midrib j nerves 
7 to 8 pairs ; length 4 to 5-5 in., breadth 2 to 2 5 in., petiole -3 in. Ra- 
cemes three times as long as the petioles, axillary, pubescent, bracteolate, 
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