Elaeocarpus
(from Elaia, an Olive, and karpos, a fruit; fruit round, containing a nut furnished with rugosities). Including Monocera. ORD. Tiliaceae. Very handsome stove or greenhouse evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers small, in racemes, usually fragrant; petals five, either toothed or beautifully fringed. Leaves alternate, or rarely opposite, entire or serrate. They thrive well in a mixture of loam and peat. Increased by cuttings, made of the ripened shoots, with leaves intact, and placed in a sandy soil, in bottom heat; or by seeds, sown in a hotbed.
E. cyaneus (blue). fl. white; racemes axillary, close-flowered. July. Drupe somewhat globose, blue. l. oblong-lanceolate, serrated, netted with veins. h. 15ft. Australia, 1803. Greenhouse. (B. M. 1737.) E. grandiflora (large-flowered).* fl., racemes few, two, four, or five-flowered, generally one or two among the terminal clusters of leaves, drooping; calyx of five narrow, almost linear-lanceolate sepals, quite red externally, white within; petals five, spreading, white or pale yellow, cuneate, more or less silky, especially externally; the apex laciniated; pedicels red, much longer than the petioles. Summer. l. from 3in. to nearly 6in. long, including the petiole, broad-lanceolate, tapering into a footstalk, a good deal clustered at the apices of the branches; apex generally obtuse; margin entire, or usually more or less crenato-serrated or sinuated. h. 7ft. Java, 1852. An extremely handsome stove plant. SYN. Monocera grandiflora. (B. M. 4680.)
E. serratus (serrate). fl. white, but purplish before opening, sweet-scented; racemes axillary or lateral, drooping. March to October. Drupe globose. l. with glands in the axils of the veins beneath, elliptic-oblong, serrated, acuminated. h. 50ft. East Indies, 1774. Stove.