129 
or two of the cells sab-abortive, the walls thick. Mast, in Hook, ftl. 
Fl. Br. Ind. i. 401 j Miq. PL lad. Bat. i. pt. 2, 210 ; Kurz Fl, Br. Burm. 
1. 167 ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coeh.-Chine, t. 143 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 
2, 210. E. serratus, Roxb. (not of L.) Fl. Ind. ii. 596. E. grossa, Wall. 
Cat. 2661. E. serratics, Roxb. ex Wall. Cat. 2666 A, B. partly. E. 
oblongus, Wall. Cat. 2677; C. Mull. Annot. de fam. Elseocarp. 19, f. 30. 
E. Lobbianus, Turcz. in Mosc. Bull. 1858, 235. 
The Nicobar Islands. Distrib. British. India through Burmah to 
the E. Himalaya, iu tropical forests. 
There is no doubt that this is the plant which Roxburgh described 
as E. serratus, Willd. 
10. Elsocarpus paniculatus, Wall. Cat. 2663. A tree 15 to 30 
feet high : all parts glabrous except the inflorescence, young branches 
with dark polished bark. Leaves thinly coriaceous, lanceolate or ob- 
lanceolatc-oblong to ov T ;ite-oblong, shortly acuminate ; the edges entire, 
slightly wavy ; base slightly cuneate, sometimes rounded ; both sur- 
faces glabrous, the upper shining ; the lower paler and rather dull, the 
reticulations distinct j main nerves 5 to 7 pairs, sub-ascending, inter- 
archiug freely within the margin : length 4*5 to 6 5 in., breadth 165 to 
2 75 in.; petiole '8 to 2 in., glabrous. Racemes numerous, from the 
axils near the apices of the branches, longer than the leuves, erect, 
rachises puberulous, becoming glabrous : pedicels spreading, slender, 
minutely pubescent, '5 to '65 in. long. Flowers about *5 in. in diam. ; 
buds ovoid with long narrow points. Sepals ovate, acuminate, ad- 
pressed- sericeous outside; glabrous inside except the pubescent infolded 
edges. Petals not longer than the sepals, ovate acuminate, entire, out- 
side adpressed-sericeous, inside glabrous in the upper villous in the 
lower half and especially on the thickened midrib and infolded edges. 
Torus a shallow fleshy waved sericeous disk. Stamens 50, almost 
sessile, nearly as long as the petals ; anthers sericeous, the cells sub- 
equal, the outer with a rather thick terminal awn. Ovary narrowly- 
ovoid, sericeous, 2-celled. Style longer than the ovary, cylindric, gla- 
brous. Fruit ellipsoid, blunt at each end, smooth, glabrous, bluish 
when ripe, '4 to *5 in. long and '25 to "35 in. in diam. ; pulp rather 
thick, slightly fibrous ; stone bony, minutely tuberculate, 1-cellod, 1- 
seeded. C. Mull. Annot. de fam. Elseocarp. 12 ; Mast, in Hook. fi). Fl. 
Br. Ind. i. 407. Monocera* leucobotryum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 409. 
Honocera Grijfithii, Mull. 1. c. 
Singapore ; Wallich, Anderson. Malacca ; Griffith, Maingay (Kew 
Distrib.) No, 257. Perak ; Scortechiui, King's Collector; common at low 
elevations. 
233 
