210 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Kyct-ta-yor (Kurz). 



Leaves tbincliartaccous, one-coloured, pubescent beneath. Flowers axillaiy, 

 grcyisb-tomentose. 



B. EETUSA, Spreng. Ava and Pegu up to 2000 feet. 



Tseik-kbye. ' Goat's duug.' 



Leaves tliin-coriaceous, glauccsccnt, and puberulous beneath, strongly-veined. 

 Flowers glabrous. Drupes purplish-black, the size of a pea, containing a dehiscent 

 2-coccous putamen. AVood grey, prizeil for bouse posts. So named from its di'upes, 

 as Sapindus is so called from the dark marks in its wood. 



\\ All jxirts fflabrous. 



B. AitJENA, "Wall. Ava. 



Leaves blunt or rounded. The female flowers crimson, shortly pediceUed. 



B. ovATA, Dene. £.T. Tenasscrim and the Andamans. 



Leaves abruptly acuminate. Bracts of flower-clusters pubescent. Female 

 flowers almost sessile. 



** Shrubs. Sipe fruits ellipficnl. 

 B. sTipuLARis, S.S. All over Burma. 



iSin-ma-no-pyin (Kurz). 



Leaves bluntish. Calyx glabrescent, enlarging under the fruit. Female flowers 

 shortly pediceUed, disk smooth. 



B. DASTCAXYS, Kz. Ava and Pegu. 



Leaves shortly acuminate. Calyx densely pubescent. Flowers sessile. Disk 

 round the fruit, pilose. 



Kurz adds from the Nicobars : 



B. GiAUCA, Bl. Kamorta and Katcball. 



Cleistanthtjs, Hooher, f. 



Flower monoecious or dioecious. Cahjx 5-parted. Petals 5, small, alternating 

 with the calyx-lobes. Disk e,x:planate, almost entire to 5-parted. Ocary 3-celled, 

 each 2-ovuled. Styles 3-, more or less 2-cleft. Seeds without arillus. Trees with 

 alternate simple leaves. 



C. MTEiANTnrs, Kz. E.T. Pegu. Tenasscrim and the Andamans. 

 Capsules stalked. Young parts and leaves beneath tawny, jiubescent. 



C. STENOPHTLLus, Kz. Tenasscrim (or the Andamans). 



Capsules sessile. AU parts glabrous. 



** Glides solitary in eaeh cell. 

 X Calyx ralrate in hul {tips of sepals rarely imhricate). 

 + Petals present, or if suppressed tlie hupoyynous glands opposite the calyx-seyments. 

 \ Stamens in hud, infracted or incurved. 



Ckoton, Linnaus. 



Flowers usually monoecious. Calyx -5- (rarely 4-6- or in females up to 12-) partite. 

 Petals as many as sepals, in males developed, in females rudimentary. Glands of the 

 disk alternating with the petals. Stamens usually 10-20. but may be less or more, 

 the filaments inflected in bud. Ocary 3- (rarely 2— 1-) celled. 



* Style simply 2-cleft to the middle or to near the base. 

 X Indument of young shoots silrery or coppery scaly. 

 J Pedicels of female flowers very short and thick, sulcate. 

 C. ARGTHATUS, Bl. F.T. Tree forests of Martabau and Teuasserim. Kamorta. 

 Leaves cbartaccous acuminate, densely silvery or coppery-scaly beneath. 



