248 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Wood red-brown, adapted for cabinet work. Exudes a red resin (Kurz). 

 M. iNDicA, Wight. H.T, Tree forests of tlie Andamans. 



Bracts linear in males, with a gland, terminating in a subulate appendage ; in 

 females tlio gland is often wanting. Capsules 1-coccous. Exudes a red resin. 



X X Male flowers in panicles. Fcniales hi simple spikes, sessile. 

 M. TANAKros, Muell. Arg. Tree forests of the Andamans. Kamorta. 



M. molliuscula, Xz. Katehall and Nankowiy. 



Bracts leafy, toothed, acuminate, 2-4 linos long, -without glands, larger in 

 females. Capsules 2-3-coccous, subulate, prickly. Exudes a reddish resin. 



** Zeares nol peltate. 



X Male flowers in bractless panicles, females in a long-peduncled hracted head. 



M. MEJiBRANACEA, Kz. Ava and Martaban, at 4000 to 6000 feet. 



Branchlets glabrous, leaves minutely pubescent. Bracts lacerate-toothed. Styles 

 A an inch long. Capsules 2-coccous, red glandular, and laxly subulate-muricate. 



M. Andamanica, Kz. E.T. Tree forests of the Andamans. 



Leaves glabrous. Bracts entire. Styles an inch long. Ovary almost glabrous. 



X X Male flowers in leafy but small-hracted panicles. Females unknown. 



M. MiNUTiFLORA, Muell. Arg. 8. Tenasserim. 



Branchlets and leaves densely puberidous. Flowers diandi-ous. Panicles lax 

 and slender, large. 



M. popuLiFOLiA, Muell. Arg. F.T. Tree forests of the Andamans. 



Leaves glabrous, opaquely glaucescent beneath. Flowers monandi'ous. Panicles 

 dense, crowded, small. 



Kurz also gives M. gigaj^tea, Muell. Arg., from Kamorta. 



Cleibiox, Blame. 



Flowers dicecious, Cahj.r 3-5-partite, valvate in males, imbricate in females. 

 Disk none, or only in the females. Stamens numerous, free, clustered on the central 

 receptacle. Anthers peltately attached, 4-celk'il, the connective usually produced. 

 Orarii-nidiment none. Ocari/ 2-3-celled, each cell 1-ovuled. Styles as many as 

 ovary-cells, filiform, 2-oleft, minutely papillose on the inner face. Capsule 2-3-coccous. 



C. Javanictjm, B1. E.T. Tree forests of Chittagong, Tenasserim, 



and the Andamans. 

 Male flowers slenderly pedicclled. Petiole 2-3 inches long. 

 C. NiTiDUM, Thw. E.T. Tree forests of South Andaman. 



Male flowers sessile. Petiole 2-4 lines long. 



Blumeodendron, Furs. 



Flowers dicecious. Calyx of males valvate, 3-partite. Disk in males gland-like. 

 Stamens numerous, free, on an elevated receptacle. Orary-radinient none. Orary 

 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Capsule large, fibrous-woody, 3-2-coccous. Seeds large, 

 enveloped in a spurious thick arillus. Albumen soapy. 



B. (Mallotus) tokbrai, Muell. Arg. F.T. Tree forests of the Andamans. 



Leaves 3-nerved at base, 4-6 inches long, glabrous, entire, shortly acuminate. 

 Seeds purple. 



CcELODiscus, Baillon. 



Flowers dioecious. Caly.v valvate, 4-5-partite in males, in females 3-5-cleft. 

 Stamens numerous, on a concave receptacle or round a central disk, free or variously 

 polyadelphous. Anthers 2-rimose, the connective not produced. Ovary-rudintcnt 



