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.Talvate. Petals 3-5, imbricate. Bisk very small. Stamens 3-5, inserted 

 .Tvithin the disk, all fertile. Ovari/ sessile; style short, terminal, stigma 

 obscurely unequally 3-lobed-, ovule ascending from the waU of the cavity. 

 ■Urupe fleshy; stone thin, fibrous, 1-celled, 1 -seeded. Seed suherect; coty- 

 ledons fleshy; radicle very short, inferior.— Disxeib. Species 5, natives of 

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1. B. burmanica, Grif, Plant. Cantor 14; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic- 

 ^ianceolate obtusely acuminate, nerves 12-15 pairs, panicles obscurely pubeiiilous 

 ^S S^^^*^^ flowers 4r-5-merous. B. oppositifolia, Meissn. in Walp. Rep, i. 

 ^&t). B. Bmndisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bmg. 1871, ii. 60; 1873, ii. 66. 

 ^angifera oppositifolia, Hoxb. Fl. Ind. I 640-, Hort. BengK 18: Wall. Cat. 

 «*4yo. Cambessedea, Wt. 4- A. Trodr. i. 170. 



Pegu, Tenasserim and the Andaman Islands.— Distrib. Java. 



Leaves very coriaceous, pale ; nerves above sunk, very slender, beneath raised with 

 ^ Slender incised line along the ridge. Panicles much shorter than the leaves, 

 ^f.°*^^^' spreading, lax, few-flowered. Flowers about | in. diam., yellow, pedicelled, 

 ^mte glabrous. Sepals rounded. Petals oblong, keeled on the face. StaTuens 

 sually 4. Ovary obliquely ovoid. Drupe 1-2 in,, broadly ovoid, compressed, 

 jeuow, eatable.— * Mariam ' or ^Mai-een' of the Burmese. Kurz states that the 

 ^mens are usually 8, perhaps a misprint for 3. 



2iJi ^' °^*®f■0Pl»ylla» Griff. Plant. Cantor 15 ; Notul iv. 423 ; leaves 

 fl 1°* ®^^P*^C"^^iiceolate obtuse or ohtusely acuminate, panicles dense- 

 nowered obscurely puberulous, flowers 4^merous. B. diversifoUa, Miq. Fl. Ind. 



if'. *"?^^- i. 522. ? B. myrsinoides, Blume Mus. Bat. t. i. 204 ; Miqud 

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Malacca, Griffith, Maingay.—DisTRiB. Sumatra. 



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fn'o j^ Similar to B. hurmanica, but much smaller in all its parts and usually 

 tnaiidrous._< Roomaniya Paigo ' of the Burmese. 



f.4%*' ™acrophylla, GHff. Plant. Cantor 15; Notul. iv. 420, t. 667, 

 inucii if^^^ ^\^ in. oblong-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, panicle 

 ^Ja pancbed dense-flowered very pubescent, flowers usually 3-merous. ? B. 

 S-^naana, Plu^rne Mus. Bot. i. 204, in note ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 635. 



■^ A^''^^^^ G^^i^^A, Mamgay.—DisTm-B. Java, Borneo. 



^ms 1^^ ^^^^^ P^^t than B. oppositifolia, with more oblong glossy leaves, the 

 the ril ■ ^^^^^ ^^^^ °^ ^^^ upper surface, raised on the lower but not grooved on 



deimpl -^^"^^ 2-3 in. long ; branches stout, spreading horizontally and bearing 



StcmZ'^fli cymes of flowers about ^ in. diam. Sepals 3 in the 9 (Griffith). 

 Mh^h ' ^^^^ ^^^^^ oblong, a little oblique, as large as a hen's egg; pulp 

 CoUjlf T**^' ^^^ terebinthine ; stone leathery, fibrous, adherent to the testa. 

 Miiay ' ^^^^'' reticulate, rugose {Griffith). ^Koomaniya Baitool' of the 





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siiort!^^!- ^^*^ caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 

 ■^/ow^^ ' simple, oblong-, coriaceous. Panicles axillary and terminal. 



•«aducn ^"^i^' hermaphrodite. Calyx spathaceous, bursting irregularly, 

 abort i* °^^ ^ ®> adnate to the disk, imbricate. Disk elongate, rarely 

 on the ^T^^« 4-G, inserted on the disk, filaments capillary. Ovary sessile 

 ovule 1 ^^ stipitate, oblique, 1-celled ; style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; 

 tuWclprl pendulous from a basal funicle. Berry stalked, dry, deformed, 

 l)lac]j in- ^^ nidged. Seed with the testa adherent to the pericarp and full of 

 ^SIEIB^^V>^^*^*^■^®'^*'°^ ^*^&e, connate, flesty ; radicle short, obtuse, incurved 



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