302 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



X X X X Scandmt shrills or climbers. 



P. sEEKATiFOLiA, L. E.S.S. Tenasscrim. The Andamans. Kamorta. 



P. integrifoUa, L. Katcliall and Car Kicobar. 



Leaves blunt, glabrous. Calyx 4-toothcd. 



P. scANDEXs, Roxb. S.S. mils East of Toimg-ngoo. 



Leaves acuminate, glabrous. Calyx truncate. 



P. LrciDULA, lliq. E.S.S. Tree forests of the Andamans and Upper Tenasserira. 



Leaves acuminate, more or puberulous bencatli. Calyx 2-lipped and 5-toothed. 



Flowers clustered or forming a more or less interrupted raceme or spike. 



P, EACEMosA, Wall. E.T. Upper Tenasserim. 



Leaves glabrous, or nearly so. Plower-clusters sessile or nearly so. Flowers 

 greenish-wkite. Filameuts pubescent at their insertion. 



Gjielixa, Linnmis. 



Calyx 4-5-toothcd or sinuately lobed. Corolla usually large. Drupe large, fleshy. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted at the inflated part of the tube, shorter than tlie 

 corolla. Ovary 4-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell, laterally attached at or 

 above the middle. Fruit a fleshy drupe, the putamcn hard or bony. 



* Bracts small and deciduous, green. 

 G. aeborea, Roxb. All over Burma and the Andamans. 



Ya-ma-nay. 



Leaves glaucous beneath. Corolla 2-lipped. The upper lip short, 2-lobed, straight, 

 Drupes smooth, glossy and yellow, the size of a plum. Wood white and light. 

 "Weight 35 lbs. Kurz recommends it for furniture, but its weight marks it for a poor 

 wood of small value. 



Mason gives Kywon-hpyu as the vernacular name ("White teak). 



G. AsiATicA, L. Swampy forests near Rangoon, and 



G. parvifolia, Roxb. of the Tsittoung Valley. Kamorta. 



Leaves villous-pubescent beneath. Corolla 4-lobed, lobes sub-equal, the upper 

 reflexed. Drupes smooth, glossy and yellow, the size of a cherry. 



* * Bracts large and gaily coloured, densely imbricate, spiny-armed. 

 G. HYSTEix, Schult. Tenasserim and Siam. 



Leaves glabrous. Flowers large, yellow, sessile. 



A A Drupe containing 2-4 distinct l-cellcd nuts. Stamens cvserted. 



\ Style shortly 2-hjbcd. 



II Corolla tube longer than the limb. 



Cleeodendeon, Linnaus. 



Calyx hell-shaped. Corolla funnel-shaped, the limb unequal and almost 2-lipped, 

 5-cleft. Stamens 4, nearly didynamous, inserted on the tube and long exserted. 

 Ovary 4-celled, each with a solitary ovule laterally attached at or above the middle 

 of each cell. Fruit a drupe, containing 4 (or by abortion fewer) 1 -celled pyrcnes. 

 Shrubs. 



* Drupes dry, capsule-like, when ripe, separating into 4 or fewer, troody, valve-like nuts. 



C. ineeme, Gaertn. F.S. var. n TidalJungles of Burma, the Andamans, 



Kamorta and Car ^Ticobar. 

 var. /3 Arakan and Tenasserim Coasts. 



Unanned. Leaves glabrous. Calyx minutely toothed and truncate. 



