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23. EljEOCarpus Mastersii, King. A tree 30 to 50 feet high I 
you ng branches as thin as a crow-quill, smooth, puberulous j otherwise 
glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong- 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, often caudate; the edge 
slightly cartilaginous, remotely and faintly serrate, the base cnneate ; 
both surfaces shining and with the rather transverse reticulations 
distinct ; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, faint, spreading, interarching with- 
in the edge ; length of blade 2*75 to 45 in,, breadth 8 to 14 in, ; petiole 
*5 to 75 in., slender. Racemes few-flowered, less than half as long as 
the leaves, from the axils under the apex; rachiaes and pedicels puberu- 
lous, becoming glabrous. Flowers "2 in diam. ; buds narrowly ovoid, 
pointed. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, puberulous or glabrescent 
outside : glabrous inside on the lower, often puberulous in the upper 
half and slightly on the infolded edges. Petals 4, oblaneeolate or nar- 
rowly cuneate, the rounded apex with about lo short teeth, thickened 
towards the base, veined, glabrous. Torus a very shallow wavy pubes- 
cent disk. Stamens 8 or 9, shorter than the petals, filaments nearly as 
long as the sub-scaberulous anthers ; the cells blunt at the apex, awu- 
less. Ovary (absent in many flowers' 1 , ovoid, blunt, glabrous, 2-celled. 
Style about as long as the ovary, thick, cylindric, grooved, glabrous. 
Fruit ovoid-globose, the apex slightly pointed, smooth, "35 in. long and 
*25 in. in diam.; pulp thin and without fibres; stone smooth, cartilagi- 
nous, l-celled, 1-seeded. Elmocarpus Acrouodia, Mast, in Hook. fil. PI. 
Br. Ind. i. 401, in part (exel. syn. Acronodia punctata, Bl.). 
Malacca; Griffith, No. 681; Maingay, No. 261, (Kew Distrib.). 
Singapore; Hullett, Ridley. Perak; common at low elevations, King's 
Collector, Scortechini, Wray. 
This is a true Acronodia allied to A. pttttctata, Bl. ( = Ekeacarptts 
punctatus, King, not of Wall.) but is distinguished by its less acuminate 
longer petiolate leaves, slightly different flowers and smaller, more glo- 
bose fruit. This occurs at low elevations and is a tree whereas the 
other is a shrub and is found as high as 7000 feet. 
Excluded species. 
Eljjocakpus htnctatus, Wall. Cat. 2676 is, (as Kurz poiuted out) 
no EUnocarpus but a Parinarium. Main gay's Nos. 621 and 621/2 (Kew 
Distribution) seem to be conspecific with it. 
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