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Leaves rufous- pubescent on lower surface 
when young : ultimately glabrescent 
or glabrous ... ... ... 21. E. glabrescens, 
Leaves glabrous at all stages. 
Leaves acute narrowed at the base 
into the petiole : fruit oblong- 
ovoid, '5 in. long ... ... 22. E , punctatus* 
Leaves acuminate (often caudate) 
base not passing into petiole : 
fruit ovoid-globose, '35 in. long... 23. E. Masterm. 
1. Elsocarpus Ganitrus, Uoxb, Hort. Beng. 42 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 592. 
A tree 30 to 60 feet high : branchlets with dark bark, cinereously pu- 
bernlons when quite young. Leaves merabranons, lanceolate, acute at 
base and apex, obscurely serrulate, glabrescent or glabrous: main 
nerves 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, slender : length 3*5 to 5 5 in., breadth 
1*25 to 2*25 in., petiole '3 to '5 in. Racemes from the branches below 
the loaves, drooping, shortor than the leaves, crowded, many-flowered. 
Flowers '35 in. long, narrow and pointed in bud ; their pedicels rather 
longer, pnberulous. Sepals lanceolate, shorter than the petals, puberu- 
Ions outside, glabrescent inside. Petals obovoid, the base thickened, 
rounded and puberulous at the edge ; the limb glabrous, laciniate for 
more than half its length. Torus short, fleshy, wrinkled, pubescent. 
Anthers about 30 to 35, sessile, slightly pubescent or glabrous ; the 
cells slightly unequal, the longer with 1 (or sometimes 2) short white 
term i mil hairs. Ovary ovoid-conic, with deep vertical grooves, minute- 
ly tomentose, 5-celled, each cell with about 4 ovules. Style much 
longer than the ovary, thin, fluted, puberulous or glabrescent, thickened 
towards the base. Fruit spherical, '75 to *9 in. in diara., glabrouB, 
bluish-purple ; the stone vertically 5-grooved, tubercled, 5-celled, often 
only one cell containing a ripe seed. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
i. 400; Kurz Fl. Burm. i, 13; Wall. Cat. 2660 A to D ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 27. Ganitrus sphcerica, GeBrtn. Fruct. ii. 271, t. 139, f. 6 ; 
Wight Ic. i. 66.— Rnmph. Amb. iii. t. 101. E. cyanocarpa, Maing. in 
Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 406. 
Malacca ; Maingay, No. 263. Penang ; Cnrtis. Perak ; King's Collec- 
tor, Scortechini. Distrib. Java ; British India, in damp tropical forests 
as far west as Nepal. 
I hare dissected flowers of the type specimen (Maingay No. 263) of 
E, cyanocarpa, Maingay, and I can find no difference in them from those 
of the type sheets of E, Ganitrus in Wall. Cat. Roxburgh's original 
drawing of E. Ganitrus in Herb. Calc. is wrong as regards the petals, 
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