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and pedicels pubescent. Flowers "25 in, in diam., the pedicels '15 to "2 
in. Sepals lanceolate, spreading, hoary adpressed-tomentose outside, 
pubescent inside, the midrib slightly tliickcnod, the edges not incurved. 
Petate a little longer than the sepals, cuneiform, contracted into a rather 
narrow claw, divided more than half-way down into about eight 3-firu- 
briate lobes, glabrescent outside, pubescent inside. Torus of 5 distinct, 
snbgloboso, fleshy, externally grooved glands. Stamens 25, shorter than 
the petals : filaments half as long as the minntely scaberulous shining 
anthers: cells subequal, pointed, the upper with a minute apical tuft 
of short haii*s. Ovary globose, pointed, tomentosc, 3-ccllcd. Style 
longer than the stamens, thick and tomeutose at the base, cylindric and 
glabrous above. Fruit unknown. 
Singapore ; King's Collector, No. 1207. 
This approaches B. aitgustifolius, 131. but has smaller more pubes- 
cent petals, fewer stamens, and less glabrons leaves. It is also closely 
allied to E. hypcuJenns, Miq., but has not the characteristic rounded 
stipules of that species, and the leaf- venation is different. It is also 
allied to E. parvifolius, Wall, from which it differs in its narrower leaves 
with much more slender veins, aud also by its 3-celled ovary. 
7. Eljjocarpus robustus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 42 ; V\. Ind. ii. 598. 
A tree 40 to (30 feet high ; young branches rather stout, at first pubcrn- 
lous ; afterwards glabrons, cinereous, lenticellate. Leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acuminate or acnto, sorrate almost to 
the slightly narrowed rounded rarely cuneate base ; both surfaces gla- 
brous, the upper shining; the lower dull, slightly paler, the minute 
reticulations rather distinct and the 10 to 12 pairs of spreading curving 
nerves rather prominent: length 3*5 to 9 in., breadth 1*75 to 3 5 in. ; 
petiole 1 to 2*25 in., thickened at the apex. Racemes from the branches 
beneath the leaves, and a few axillary, often nearly as long as the 
leaves : rachis, pedicels and outer surface of the sepals pubescent. 
Floivers *5 in. in diam., the pedicels slightly recurved and about *3 in. 
long. Sepats lanceolate, glabrous inside except the incurved pubes- 
cent edges, the midrib thick. Petals broadly cuneiform, ruuch- contract- 
ed in the lower half, the base acute, cat half-way down iuto about 30 
narrow fimbriae, glabrous except the puborulous edges. Torus of 5 
fleshy, truncate, cushion-like velvety glands. Stamens 30 to 50, shorter 
than the petals, scaberulous; the filaments curved, about one-fifth 
the length of the anthers; colls subequal, the longer with a small 
tuft of white hair at its apex. Ovary ovoid-globose, with about G 
shallow vertical grooves, tomentose, 3-cclled. Style cylindric, longer 
than the ovary, shorter than the petals, pubescent in its lower, glabrous 
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