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smaller leaves with very large Bcrobiculce on the tower surface at the 
junction of the petioles with the midrib. This has beeu named E. 
simplex by Kurz, (Fl. Burni. i. 165.) A similar form occurs in Travancore 
and has been named E. venustus by Beddomo (Flora Sylvatica, t. 574). 
19. El^ocarpus poltstachyus, Wall. Cat. 2671, A small tree : 
young sboots rather stout, minutely tawny- torn entose. Leaves coriace- 
ous, pale when dry, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, abruptly and shortly acumi- 
nate ; the edges rather remotely Berrulate except at tho base, sub-entire 
when old ; the base broad, rounded ; upper surface glabrous; the lowor 
sparsely and minutely sub-adpressed puberulous, tho midrib pnbesceut 
main nerves 7 to 10 pairs, ascendiug, curving, prominent beneath, the 
reticulations minute, Faint: length 55 to 7 5 in., breadth 'J'iio to 3'5 in. ; 
petioles 2*5 to 4 in., minutely tawny-tomentose, slightly thickened at 
the apex. Racemes slightly longer than tho petioles ; the rachises, 
pedicels and outside of sepals densely minutely tawny-tomentose. 
Flowers '35 in. in diam., their pedicels "4 in,, recurved, buds sub-globose. 
Sepals ovate, acute ; iuuer surface glabrous, except the pubescent edges, 
the midrib thickened. Petals elliptic, little longer than the sepals, the 
apex obtuse, sometimes slightly lobed, not fimbriate : villous on both 
surfaces, the hail's on the inner reversed. Torus of 5 retuse thin densely 
villous glands. Smensta half as long as the petals: filaments nearly 
as long as the hispid-pubescent anthers; cells subequal, awnless, beard- 
less. Ovary ovoid, blunt, densely villous, 2-eelled. Style about as long 
as the ovary, puberulous. Fruit oblong, blunt, *G in. long and '35 in, in 
diam., Bmooth, glabrous ; stone minutely but sharply rugose, 1-celled, 
1-seeded, pulp thiu and slightly fibrous. C. Mull. Annot. do fain. 
Elaeoearp, 20, f. 13; Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 403. 
Singapore ; Wallich, Hullott, Ridley. Malacca ; Maingay, Nos. 2G4, 
266, (Kew Uistrib.). 
20, Eljeocarpus Jackianus, Wall. Cat. 2679. A troc 40 to 80 
feet high: young branches stout, densely rufous-tomentose. Leaves 
coriaceous, ovate-oblong to elliptic, rarely oblong-ovoid, shortly acumi- 
nate or acute, edges entire, recurved; the base rounded or slightly 
narrowed: upper surface rather dull and pale when dry; glabrous, the 
midrib alone sometimes pubescent, the lower softly rufous-tomentose, 
becoming sub-glabrescent when very old, the minute reticulations dis- 
tinct; main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, sub-asceuding, curving, prominent on 
the lower, impressed on the upper, surface : length 4 to 7 5 in., breadth 
2 5 to 4'5 in. ; petiole 175 to 3 in., stout, thickened at each end, tomen- 
tose. Racemes crowded on the branches below the leaves, sometimes 
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