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9. Elstocarpcs, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves simple. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, rarely 
polygamous, in axillary racemes. Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, usually 
laciuiate at the apex, rarely entire, springing from the outside of a 
cushion-shaped, often 5-lobed torus. Stamens usually indefinite, never 
loss than 10, arising 1 from the inside of the torus, and more or less ag- 
gregated into groups opposite the petals and alternating with the glands 
of the torus j anthers innate, linear, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary 
sessile, 2-5-celled, cells 2-many-ovnled ; style columnar. Drupe with a 
single bony stone which is 3-5 or, by abortion, 1-celled. Seeds pendulous, 
1 in each cell, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat. Distrib. About 50 
species chiefly in the Indian Archipelago and India; a few in some of 
the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, and Australia. 
Sect. I. Qanitrus. Ovary and drupe 5-celled, 
the latter globular. 
Leaves glabescent or glabrous, without 
stipules. 
Leaves lanceolate ... 
„ ovate- oblong ... 
Leaves softly rusty-pubescent or tomcn- 
tose beneath, stipulate 
Sect. II. Eu-eleeocarpus. Ovary 3-celled : longer 
cell of authors usually with an apical 
tuft of minute hair ; petals cunei form, 
fimbriate. 
Leaves pubescent beneath, elliptic- 
oblong 
Leaves glabresceut beneath ; the midrib 
pubescent. 
Leaves ovate to elliptic-ovate, with 
black dots beneath 
„ narrowly lanceolate, not 
dotted beneath... 
Leaves quite glabrous everywhere. 
Leaves with rounded bases. 
Petals glabrous ... 
„ glandular-pubescent ... 
1. E. Qanitrus, 
2. E. parvifoliuss 
3. K. stipularis. 
4. E. Scortechinii. 
5. E. Wrayi. 
6. E, salicifolius* 
Leaves with their bases much 
narrowed. 
Petals glandular-pubescent i 
fruit ovoid or slightly ob- 
ovoid, blunt 
7. E. robustus. 
8. E. nitidus \ var. 
leptostachyus. 
8. 
E. nitidus. 
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