268 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



Freslily cut it is yelloiv, but seasons to brown, and ranges between 42-52 lbs. It is 

 too yaliial)le a fruit tree, bowever, to be cut for timber, and it is hardly superior to 

 selected plants of the lust. 



*** Si/ncarp smooth, tisuidli/ relief 1/ or tomentose. 



A. GoMEziANA, Wall. E.T. Tenasserim. 



All parts quite glabrous. 



*A. LAKOOCHA, lloxb. Tree forests of Pegu, and cultivated all over Burma. 



Myouk-lok. 



Shoots densely rusty-pubescent. Leaves shortly scabrously pubescent. Syncarp 

 of an u-regular globular shape, the size of the fist, smooth, velvety, puberulous, when 

 fully ripe yellow, edible. 



Eurz adds from the Xicobars : 



*A. iNCisA, L. Cultivated on Car !N"icobar. 



A. roMiFOEMis, T. et B. Kamorta and Katchall. 



A. PEDUNCDLARis, Kz. Kamorta. 



CrDEAXiA, Tncid. 



Flowers difficious, packed into globular heads, subtended by 2-4 bracts alternat- 

 ing with the perianth lobes. Perianth 4-parted. Stamens 4. Orari/ free, with 

 a single pendulous ovule. Sfi/te simple, with a rudimentary tooth-like branch at 

 the base. Stiyma filiform, puberulous. Fruit a syncarp, enveloping crustaceous 

 nuts. 



X Leaves lA— 3 inehes lonrf, glabrous. 



C. Amboixexsis, Eumph. -S'.<S. Chittagong. 



Cad ran as liui/iphii, Thw. 



Young branches pubescent. Leaves blunt, the nerves thin but prominent. 

 Syncarp the size of a small cheriy. Perianth fleshy, connate, glaucous green. 



X X Leaves 4-6 inehes long, acuminate, the nerves jyrominent. 



C. FKUTicosA, "Wight. S.S. Ava. Chittagong. Upper Tenasserim. 



A seandent shrub armed with curved shai-p spines. All parts quite glabrous. 

 Syncarp as the last, but larger. Seeds as big as a small pea. 



C. PUBESCENS, Tree. Eastern Slopes of the Pegu Range 



Doung-kyet-tek (Kurz). "'^'l ilartaban up to 30UU feet. 



Leaves pubescent. Syncarp as the last, but larger, wrinkled. 



X X Female flowers numerous along with the males, arranged uithin a hollow, or on 

 an explanate fleshy receptacle. 



Ficrs, Linneeus. 



(NiouNG, generic.) 



Receptacle closed or perforated at the braeted apex. Achenes minute, somewhat 

 crustaceous. Trees or shrubs often seandent and epiphytical. Juice milky. The 

 receptacles are what are commonly understood as figs. 



A. Receptacles hj pairs, or solitary from the axils of the leaves, or from above the 

 leaf-scars, never from the stem or root-shoots. 



* Leaves thick-coriaceous to almost chartaceous, glabrous, or rarely puberulous beneath. 

 Receptacles usually smooth, not hispid ivithin, the mouth closed by 3-4 closely oppressed 

 bracts. Mule flowers monnndrous. Stigma filiform-elongate, rarelg 1-clcft. Trees or 

 arboreous stem-clasping climbers. 



§ Petioles usually thick and short, not Jointed and thickened at the insertion of 

 ike blade. 



