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Allied to E> Kunst(eri, King and to E. rugosus, Roxb. In fact I 
am inclined to believe that it is merely a form of the latter, from which 
it should not be separated specifically. Dr. Pmin has called my atten- 
tion to Wallich's sheet No. 3969, which is unmistakeably this species, 
and has nothing to do with TerminaUa moluccana, Larak. which is T. 
Catappa, Linn. 
18. El-EOCARPUS aristatts, Roxb. Hort. Beng. : Fl. Ind. n. 599. 
A tree 30 to 60 feet high : young branches of about the thickness of a 
swan's quill, smooth, thickened and rough towards the apex. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, obovate, shortly and bluntly apicnlate, remotely cre- 
nate-serrate, narrowed to the base, glabrous on both surfaces; main 
nerves 7 to 10 pairs, slender, curving, scrobiculal e :il .the origin from 
the midrib; length 6 to 8'5 in., breadth 2*75 to 3'75 in., petiole '5 to '7 
in. Racemes axillary and from the axils of fallen loaves, often nearly as 
long as the leaves, 3 to 5-flowered, rachises and pedicels puberulous or 
glabrous. Flowers nearly 1 in. in diara. ; buds cylindric, pointed ; pedi- 
cels '8 to 125, or longer in fruit. Sepals as in E. apiculatus. Petals 
also as in E. apiculatus but broadly cuneiform, and lobed as well as 
fimbriate. Stamens 50, otherwise as in E. apiculatus. Ovary less vel- 
vety, but otherwise as in E. apiculatus. Fruit ovoid, smooth, 1*25 to 
1*4 in. long and '8 to '9 in. in diam., pulp rather thick; stone oblong, 
flattened, pointed at each end, rugose, slightly ridged in the middle of 
each side, 1 in. long. 1-celled, 1-seeded. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
i. 405. E. rugosus, Wall. Cat. No. 2659 (not of Roxb.). 
Andaman Islands ; King's Collector. Distrib. Brit. India in 
Bnrmah, Chittagong, Sylhet, Assam, Khasia Hills and base of Eastern 
Himalaya. 
This is very closely allied to E. rugosus, Roxb. — a species originally 
discovered by Roxburgh in Chittagong, but specimens of which from 
that province are very rare in collections. The plants distributed under 
this name by Wallieh as No. 2G59 of his Catalogue were not collected 
there but in Sylhet, while some of them were taken from trees cultiva- 
ted in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. They aro not E. rugosus at all, 
but E. aristatus, Roxb.; and they differ from true E. itigosus in having 
their you ug branches thinnerand smoother; and in leaves which ate always 
glabrous, not so gradually narrowed to the base and with much longer 
petioles. Their racemes are also more numerous, the petals more broad- 
ly cuneiform and the stamens more numerous, (50 as against 30 to 40). 
The pulp of the fruit is thicker in Atidanians specimens of this than in 
those from Sylhet and Assam; and the stoue is proportionately smaller. 
There is in Assam and Burmah a plant closely allied to this which has 
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