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heads. Perianth in males 4-parte(I, valvate in bud. Stamens 4. Filaments long, 

 exsertcd. Female perianth urceolati; or bell-shaped, 4-3-toothed, persistent. Oiari/ 

 stalked, Trith a single pendulous ovule. Sfi/ie lateral, filiform persistent. Berry 

 club-sliaped, with a sappy pericai'p, inclosing the seed at its thickened upper end. 

 Juice milky. 



B. r.iPTEiFEHA, Tout. Ava and ilartaban Hills. 



Ma-laing (Kurz). 



Drupes sappy, glosssy-red. 



Dr. Mason says this is the tree from which the Bunnese make the coarse paper, 

 of which their folding books are composed, called parrti-bei/ce, and Kurz adds that it 

 is also used in China and Japan in tlie manufacture of paper. 



MoKUs, Linnaus. 



Flowers moncecious or dioecious, in dense spikes. Male perianth 4- (rarely 5-) 

 parted, the segments in 2 series, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4 (rarely 5). Female 

 perianth 4-parted, the outer segments larger. Deary 2-colled, cells 1-ovuled. Stigmas 

 2, elongate-filiform. Aelienes usually covered bv the fleshv jierianth, and hence beny- 

 hke. 



M. L.EVIGATA, Wall. Tree forests of Martaban and Tenasserim. 



Ma-lein-pen (Kurz). 



Male and female spikes 4-5 inches long. 



M. Indica. Cultivated as food for silkworms. 



Male spikes about A an inch long. 



X X Female fowers solitary or in poor racemes. 

 Balanostekblus, Kurz. 



Flowers moncecious, females racemose, males in catkins. Perianth entire, connate 

 with the ovaiy, free upwards, but entirely inclosing the ovaiy, perforate at the 

 apex. Seed inclosed in the fleshy perianth, and drupaceous. Milky trees, with 

 alternate spiny-toothed leaves. 



B. ilicifolia, Kz. Ava and Chittagong. 



Drupes the size of a pea, red, tubercled-wrinkled, glabrous. 



Streblus, Loureiro. 

 Flowers monoecious or dia-cious, the males in heads, the females solitary. Perianth 

 4-parted, in fruit enlarged, fleshy. Ovary with a single ovule attached near the apex. 

 Style somewhat esccntrical. Stiymas 2, filLform. Albumen none. MUky trees or shrubs, 

 witli simple sen-ulate leaves. 



* 2Inle flowers in spikes or short-peduncled heads, the heads sometimes andnyynous. 

 Female flowers solitary, pedunchd. Perianth segments broad, enlarging and turning fleshy, 

 entirely inclosing the achene. 



S. ASPEEA, Lour. E.l\ All over Burma, the Andamans, 



Op-nai (Kurz). Katchall, and Car Nicobar. 



All parts scabrously pubescent, fruiting perianth fleshy, scabrous. Male flowers 

 in heads. 



S. Mills, Kz. E.T. Khakyen Hills. 



All parts glabrous. Male flowers in dense spikes. 



* * Male flowers in short-peduncled small racemes, the female in very loose racemes, 

 periantli-segments narrow, embracing only the base of the achene. 



S. (DiPLoeos) Zeylanica, Bur. E.T. Burma. 



Ta.rotrojihis Zelaynia, Thw. 

 All parts glabrous. Fruiting perianth-segments smooth. 



