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E> Monoceras, Cav. to which Dr. Masters reduces this, was founded 
by its author on specimens from the inland of Lnzon. The species, how- 
ever, is not given in the latest Flora of the Philippines (that of Sig. 
Vidal) ; and, as the original description of Cava ni lies does not quite 
agree with the flowers of the Perak specimens, 1 think it safer not to go 
further buck thorn Blame's name, leaving it to be settled hereafter 
whether E. obtusus, Bl. is really the same plant as the Philippine E. 
Mounrrnis, The Perak plant is closely allied to E. littoral)*, T, B. ( for 
which Kurz mistook it) ; and also to the smaller-flowered Sumatrun 
E. ctiitvijoli'iv, Miq. 
17. Eljiocarpus apiculatus, Most, in Hook, fil, Fl. Br. Ind. i. 407. 
A tree 50 to 60 feet high : young branches glabrous, their apices much 
thickened, rough and pubernlons. Leaves coriaceous, obovate or ob- 
luueeo late-oblong, slightly narrowed to the obtuse, sub-acute, or shortly 
apiculale apex, and much narrowed to the base, the edges sub-entire or 
with coarse shallow crenationsj both surfaces glabrous, shining, the 
midrib on the lower glabrescent when young; under surface pale, the 
reticulations minute, rather distinct ; main nerves 12 to 14 pairs, slightly 
prominent beneath and interarchiug freely within the margin, not 
scrobiculate ; length 7 to 10 in. ; breadth 2 5 to 3*75 in., petiole '3 to 1 
in,, thickened at the apex. Macemes few, mostly from the axils of 
fallen leaves, usually about a fourth but sometimes half the length of 
the loaves ; the rachises and pedicels softly pubescent. Flowers "9 in. 
in diam, ; buds oblong, sub-obtuse or pointed, their pedicels *75 to P25 
in. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, rufous- pubescent outside, glabrous or 
glabrescent inside, the edge infolded and pubescent, the midrib thickened 
from base to apex. Petals slightly longer than the sepals, oblong- 
cuneiform to cuneiform, cut from one-fourth to one-fifth of their length 
into numerous rather broad fimbriro ; externally adpressed-sericeous 
in the lower half, glabrous in the upper; internally thickened and 
villous in the lower, glabrous in the upper, half. Torus a shallow 
fleshy pubernlons cup. Stamens 30 to 40, half as long as the petals ; 
filaments shorter than the minutely scaberulous anthers, bulbous at the 
base: outer anther-cell with short or long apical recurved awn. Ovary 
ovoid, rufous-tomentose, poiuted, 2-celled. Style as long as the petals, 
conic-cylindric and pubescent in the lower half, filiform and glabrous 
in the upper. Fruit (fide Masters) " 1 in. long, resembling the fruit of 
a Diospyros'* Terminalia moluccana, Wall, (not of Lcmk.) Cat. 3969. 
Penang; Wallich. Malacca; Griffith, Maingay, No. 262 (Kew. 
Distrib.). Porak; Scortechini, King's Collector; common at low ele- 
vations. 
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