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suggested by the late Di\ Anderson and Mr. Dyer (Journ. Liun. Soo. 
xiii, 331), Aif in an dm acuminata, Korth. 
4. Ecbya, Thunb. 
Shrubs. Leaves narrow, usually cronate-serrate. Flowers small, 
unisexual, sessile or shortly pedicelled, in axillary fascicles, rarely 
solitary, with persistent bracteoles. Sepals 5. Petals 5, united at the 
base. Stamens 15 or loss, rarely 5 ; anthers glabrous. Ovary 3 (rarely 
2-5)-ccllod; styles 3 (raroly 2-5) free or united; ovules manj- in the 
inner angle of each coll. Fruit baccate. Albumen fleshy. Distrib. 
S. E. Asia, Indian Archipelago and Pacific Islands ; described species 
more than 30, probably reducible to 10 . 
I. EtJRYA acuminata, DC Meru. Ternst. 29. A tree 30 to 40 feet 
high ; young branches slender, pubescent to minutely tomentoso. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, narrowly obloug- lanceolate or oblaneeolate, aouiuiuato, 
serrulate, tho base acute; upper surface glabrous, shining; the lower 
paler, pubescent especially on the midrib, or sub-glabrous; length 2 5 
to 3 5 in., breadth '5 to *75 in., petiole "1 in. or none. Flowers "25 in. 
in diatn., in '2 to G-flowered clusters ; pedicels short, pubescent, bracteo- 
late. Buds globose. Sepals unequal, the outer smaller, rotund with a 
thickened wrinkled patch near the base, pubescent externally. Petals 
larger and thinner than the sepals, oblong, blunt, veined, glabrous. 
Male flowers : stamens about 12, glabrous ; filaments slender, anthers 
oblong, blunt; rudimentary ovary conic without styles, or absent. 
Female /lower as in the male, but the sepals and petals smaller and 
narrower; stamens 0; ovary ovoid-conic; smooth, 3 or (by abortion) 
2-celled, multi-ovulate ; styles 3, united or free in the lowor two-thirds, 
cylindric, about as long as the ovary. Stvjmas on the inner surfaces of 
the upper part of the styles. Fruit globular, 15 in. in diam., smooth, 
subtended by the persistent calyx and crowned by the styles. Seeds 
small, angled, pitted, shining, brown. Biospyros serrata t Ham. in Don 
Prod. Fl. Nep. 143. 
In all the provinces at low elevations, oninmon, Distrib. Sub- 
tropical Himalaya, Assam, Chittagong and Burmese Ranges, Malay 
Archipelago, Fiji Islands. 
In a plant with such a wide distribution, variations in form ore 
only to be expected. Many of these have been treated as species which, 
in Sir J. D. Hooker's Flora of British India, Mr. Thiselton Dyer has re- 
duced to varieties as follows r 
Var. 1. euprista, Korths. Verb. Nat. Geseh. Bot. 113 (sp.) ; 
styles distinct. Griff. Ic. 604, f. 3. E. multiflora, DC. li c. 25. F. 
sciiafo, Bluiut' H. Jhy\ pioef. vii. E, angitstifolia, Wall. Gat. 1165. 
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