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straight. Styles 1 or 2. OruU various. Eiiihnjo straifclit or curved, albuminous or 

 not. Trees or shrubs. Juice milky (generally). Leaves alternate. Stipules large, 

 fugacious. 



** Style usualh/ simple. Pericarp inclosed in the Jhshy or dry perianth, indehiscent 

 or rarely 'Ivalccd. Leaves alternate or distichous. 



\ Filaments straight in lud, never infected. 



X Female flowers numerous in heads or on a fleshy receptacle, the males in separate 

 inflorescences. 



AuTOCARPUs, Linnaus. 



Flowers monoecious, the sexes crowileJ on separate receptacles. Stamen 1, 

 exserted, filament complanate. Female perianth tiibuUir, entire, the perianths of the 

 suiTouuding flowers more or less connate. Ovary free, 1- rarely 2-3-celled, the cells 

 1-ovuled. Style terminal or esccntrio, simple. Fruit a, compound fleshy syueaii), 

 made up of enlarged perianths, each inclosing a solitary i)undulous seed 'with a 

 chartaceous indehiscent pericarp. Albumen none. Trees abounding in milky juice, 

 wilh alternating, entire or lobed leaves. 



"^' Syncarp prickly-ecliinate. 

 X Prickles of syncarp Iristly -setose. 

 A. CALOPHVLLA, Kz. E.T. Upper Tenasserim. 



Leaves bristly-scabrous above, softly pubescent beneath. 



A. EiGiDA, Bl. E.T. Tenasserim. 



A. echinata, lloxb. 



Loaves glabrous above, pubescent along the nerves benealh. 



X X Prickles of syncarp smooth. 

 A. ECFESCExs, Miq. E.T. Tenasserim (probahl}'). 



Leaves miuutely pubescent above, tomcntose beneath. 



"'■' ■^" Syncarp tuherchd. 

 A. CHAPLAsnA, Eoxb. Tree forests all over Burma, the Andamans 



Toung-peing-nai (Kurz). Toung-ben (W.T.). "'"^ Xankowry. 



Leaves scabrous, pubescent, especially beneath. Syncarp as large as the fist, 

 globular, pendulous on a .slender peduncle. Tliis tree, says Kurz, yields a tenacious 

 milky eaoutehouk, and ho describes the wood as heavy, 30 lbs. (! !), and soon attacked 

 by insects. Now a wood of 30 lbs. cannot lie called heavy. The wood, though 

 rather coarse in grain, is excellent for furniture. It weighs 31 lbs. (selected sample), 

 and is not particularly attacked by insects, certainly not so much as some woods in con- 

 stant use. It works W(dl, and looks well, and, though probably not lasting if exposed 

 to the weather, is excellent for indoor work, and obtainable of verj- large scantling. 

 For boats and wheels it is of course inferior. 



* A. ISTEGUIFOLIA, Willd. E.T. Cultivated all over Burma and wild 



reing-nai. The Jack tree. "' Kamorta. 



All parts quite glabrous. Syncarp clavatc to oblong, 1-lA feet long. 



A tree, which, when in full fruit, is a fine object, and yielding a pleasant shade 

 with its dense foliage. The fruit is said, in favourable situations, to attain to GO lbs. 

 weight, and those wliicli, in old trees, grow from a part of the stem covered by the 

 earth (which cracks over them), are esteemed the finest. The odour of the fully ripe 

 fruit can only be designated as a stench ; but before becoming ripe the fruit is not 

 unpleasant, and the odour of the tree in blossom is very pleasant, and resembles fresh 

 apples. The kenu'ls, when roasted, arc equal to chestnuts. Birdlime is manufactured 

 from the juice which flows from incisions, and a yellow but fugitive dye is manu- 

 factured by boiling the wood. The timber is excellent for furniture, though brittle. 



