Elceocarpus.] 
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11. ELiEOCARPUS, L. 
Trees, or in high mountains, shrubs. Flowers usually bisexual, 
in axillary racemes white. Sepals 5, distinct. Petals 5, usually 
laciniate at tip, from the outside of a cushion-shaped torus often 
5-lobed, or of 5 glands. Stamens usually many, never less than 10, 
more or less aggregate into groups within the torus, alternating 
with the lobes of the torus; anthers linear, opening by a terminal 
pore. Ovary 2- to 5-celled, cells 2- to many-ovuled; style 
columnar. Drupe with one bony stone, 3- to 5- or i-celled. Seeds 
pendulous, 1 in each cell, albuminous. Species 50, Indo-Malaya, 
a few Polynesia, Australia, and New Zealand. 
Malay name generally, Mendong, often accidentally Medang, 
which properly means Laurinea. 
i. Ganitrus. Ovary and drupe 5-celled (except a variety of No. 3). 
Leaves glabrescent. 
Leaves lanceolate; flowers *5 in. long; drupe 
globose blue, stone tubercled . . . (1) E. Ganitrus 
Leaves elliptic ovate; flowers -i in. long; 
drupe globose, green stone smooth . . (2) E. parvifolius 
Leaves tomentose beneath. 
Fruit globose; stipules conspicuous . . (3) E. stipularis 
ii. Eu-el^eocarpus. Ovary 3-celled; longer cell of anthers bearded 
longer cell 
with a tuft of hairs. 
Leaves glabrescent; nerves faintly puberulous. 
Leaves ovate, stiff, strong-nerved . 
Leaves lanceolate, thin; nerves fine 
Leaves elliptic-ovate, coriaceous 4 to 7 in. by 
2-5 to 4-5 in.; flowers *5 in. wide 
Leaves elliptic, very stiff, 4 by 2 in.; racemes 3 
in. long; flowers *25 in. wide 
Leaves glabrous entirely. 
Racemes very long, many flowered; leaves 
large ....... 
Racemes short; leaves small rigid coriaceous . 
iii. Monocera. Outer cell of anther awned; 
1-celled, 1-seeded. 
Leaves broad, elliptic, 5 in. long or more; 
racemes axillary, 3 to 4 in. long. 
Leaves oblong; flowers in erect panicle, 9 in. 
long or more, terminal . . . 
Leaves elliptic, short, blunt acuminate, 3 in. 
long; flowers - 5 in. wide . . . 
Leaves elliptic lanceolate, long, acuminate, 3 in. 
long; flowers '24 in. wide .... 
Leaves obovate serrate, 3 in. long; flowers 
many *25 in. long; sepals and peduncles silky 
Leaves obovate serrate, 3 in. long; flowers 
many *25 in. wide; sepals and petals glabrous 
Leaves obovate, 5 by 3-5 in. long, decurrent 
flowers ‘4 in. wide .... 
Leaves obovate, 5 by 2 in.; petioles 1 in. long 
flowers few, *75 in. wide 
Leaves oblanceolate, 10 by 4^5 in. long, de 
current; flowers 1 in. wide 
( 4 ) 
( 5 ) 
E. Wrayi 
E. salicifolius 
(6) E. robustus 
(7) E. floribundus 
( 8 ) 
( 9 ) 
ovary 
(10) 
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E. nitidus 
E. acmosepalus 
2-celled; drupe 
E. petiolatus 
E. paniculatus 
(12) E. Griffithii 
(13) E. Hullettii 
(14) E. pedunculatus 
(15) E. Barnardii 
(16} E. Kunstleri 
(17) E. obtusus 
(iS) E. rugosus 
