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Burmanico, et ad orani Tenasscrim usque ad Tavoy, inter gradum xxv. et xiv. latitudinis meridlonalis. Ipse observavi 

 juxta ripam sinistram Irawaddi fluminis ad Pronie ; in provincia Martabaniae ad urbem Martaban, ad Kogun flummis 

 Saluen et ad Neynti fluminis Attran. Floret initio anni ; fructus maturi a fine Martii ad medium Man. 



Nomen vernaculum : Munipurensibus K/ieti ; Burmanis Theet-tsee vel Zitsi. 



Arbor vasta, ramosa et umbrosa, tninco robusto, cortice sordid^ fusco, rimoso, ligno ponderoso, compacto, e fusco rafescente, viliori 

 varietati ligni Swietem,^ Mahagoni hand absiinili. Hamuli crassi, cylindrici, grisei, viUosi, a lapsu foliorum cicatricibus majusculis, fre- 

 quentibus notati ; novelU ferrugineo-villosi. Gemm^ axillares et terminales parvse, ovatae, acutae, squamis panels, coriaceis, viUosis, cit5 

 dilabescentibus. Folia versus rainorura extreraitates approJcimata, sparsa, patentia, decidua, obovata, obtusa, rar6 subretusa, nunc 

 oblongo-cuneata, deorsum valde attenuata, basi acuta, integerriina, subsinuata, lateribus quandoque disparibus ; coriacea et firma, 

 spithamcea ad pedalia, utrinque ferrugineo-viUosa, nioUia, letate glabriora ; supra atroviridia, subtiis nerve principali crasso, elevato, 

 secundariis numerosis, suboppositis, parallelis, obliqufe ad peripheriam excurrentibus, parvaque ab ilia distantia arcuatiin anastomosanti- 

 bus ; venis numerosis, proniinulis, reticulatis. Petiolus brevis, nudus, villosus, crassus, basi intumescens, suprk planus, a folio subdecur- 

 rente parfiiii inargiiiatus. Stipule nullfe. Inflorescentiam baud vidi ; flores aliquot delapsos, emarcidos et cariosos tanttim observavi. 

 Erant parvi et inconspicui, pedicellis insidentes brevibus, teretibus, villosis. Nullum vestigium calycis nisi forsan lineola obsoleta infra 

 corollara. Petala 5 lanceolata, acuminata, bilinearia, purpurascentia, uninervia, pubescentia, ciliata, inti!is minutim glanduloso-punc- 

 tata, persistentia, tria exteriora pari^m majora. Stamina 20—30 libera, erecto-patula, petalis paul5 breviora, toro conico, elevato 

 undique inserta ; filamenta glabra, capillacea ; anthers ovata?, oscillatoriae, biloculares, utrinque dehiscentes, albicantes. Ovarium 

 obliqufe lenticulare, margine altero rectiore, altero gibboso, parvulum, pubescens, pedicello suffultum proprio, inter stamina e centre 

 tori surgente, 1-loculare, 1-sporum ; ovulum reniforme, sustentum funiculo libero, e fundo loculi orto, secus angulum hujus rectiorem 

 adscendente, apice incui-vato. Stylus lateralis e vertice ovarii, subulatus, pubescens, deciduus. Stigma parvulum, convexum. Discus 

 hypogynus nuUus. Panicula fructuum tenninalis, ampla, patens, laxa, villosa, constans cymis pluribus, pedunculatis, oblongis, nutan- 

 tibiis, 6 — 7-pollicaribus, ramosis, axillaribus foliorum delapsorum. Pedunculi teretes, villosi, infra divisuras cicatricibus bractearum 

 caducarum. Fructus coriaceus, indehiscens, transversa ovatus, depressus, subreniformis, vertice plana nudus, hinc gibbosior et porrectior 

 (ideoque excentricus), magnitudine cerasi, glaber, reticulato-venosus, venis viridibus deini^m nigricantibus, niber, glaucescens, plena 

 maturitate fuscescens, stipitatus thecaphoro clavato, tereti, unguiculari ; 1-locularis, 1-spermus, involucratus. Involucrum 5- rar^ 6- 

 phyllum, patentissiraum deratim subreflexum ; foliola oblonga, obtusa vel paul6 retusa, integerrima, 2 — 3-pollicaria, pubescentia, niber- 

 rima, furfuracea, demfim fusca, coriacea, arida, suprk convexiuscula, subtfis eleganter reticulato-venosa, venis mediis in fasciculum 

 coUcctis latiusculum, prominulum, ultra basin in unguem brevissimum subproductum. Semen transversa decumbens, magnum. Spermo- 

 DERMiuM chartaceum, laeve, embryonem arctfe cingens, vertice crassius et ad latus ejus radiculare exsculptum sulco pro recipienda 

 chorda funiculari lata, plana, e basi fundi oriunda, adscendente, partem spermodermii apici radiculae oppositam perforante moxque 

 evanida. Embryo magnus, semini conformis, exalbuminosus. Cotyledones crassse, carnosee, semiovatte, obtusse, gibbosse, rugosulae, ad 

 paginaiu internam plana; arcttquc sibi invicem accumbentes, hypogese. Radicul-v brevis, planiuscula, ad extremitatem elevatiorem 

 embryonis locata, adscendens, commissurae cotyledonum adpressa, basi subbifida, apice inclinata et obtusa. Plumula minuta, occulta, 

 lanceolat^. 



Tlie first time I met with this very interesting tree was at a small village below Prome, on the river Irawaddi, 

 where a few had been planted ; and on my return from Ava I found it again in abundance on the hills surrounding 

 the first-mentioned town ; but in both instances the trees were without any fructification. In the Martaban province 

 I had the satisfaction of seeing the tree in great numbers in March 1827, on a small acclivity rising behind the town 

 of Martaban. lliey were loaded with bunches of red, nearly ripe fruit, but were not very large; few only exceeding 

 thirty feet in height, with a short trunk measuring not more than four or five feet in circumference. The leaves 

 had entirely fallen off, and strewed the ground in every direction. At Neynti, a village on the Attran river, behind 

 the military station at Moalmeyn, I also observed a few trees : and lastly, on the Saluen river towards Kogun. Here 

 they were of greater dimensions than those just mentioned ; one of them being forty feet in height, with a stem twelve 

 feet long and eleven in girth at four feet above the ground. One of my assistants brought me fruit-bearing 

 specimens from Tavoy on the Tenasserini coast. 



1 took with me to Bengal a large quantity of ripe fruits of the Varnish-tree, which germinated freely and produced 

 upwards of 500 strong and healthy plants. Out of several individuals, which I had with me on board the ship 

 m which I came to Europe, I succeeded in preserving only one living plant, which was presented to His Majesty's 

 garden at Kew by the East India Company. Subsequently several other plants have been forwarded from the 

 Calcutta garden to England. 



Before leaving Bengal I had an opportunity of identifying our tree with the majestic Kheu, or Varnish-tree of 

 Munlpur, a principality in Hindustan, bordering on the N.E. frontier districts of Slllet and Tippera. Mr. George 

 Swmton, chief Secretary to the Bengal Government, (to whose kindness I am indebted for much valuable information 

 concernmg the produce of this and other useful trees of India,) obtained for me a supply of ripe fruits from thence 

 which differed in no respect from those I had seen at Martaban. Tliey vegetated speedily, and produced plants 

 snmlar to those we already possessed. Captain F. Grant, who has a military command at Munlpur, had the goodness 

 to furnish the following particulars.-Tlie tree grows in great abundance at Kubbu, an extensive valley in the above- 

 mentioned prmcipahty, forming large forests in conjunction with the two staple timber-trees of continental India, the 

 haul and leak {Shorea robusta and Tectom grandis), especially the former. Numbers of the gigantic woodoil-tree 



