358 BCRMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



ff Ov<iri/-ceUs \-or!(hd. 

 X Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 



Gu^'isANTHUs, Be Ctindolle. 



Cali/x- and corolla-loles usually 4, rarely 6. Ocary-cells usually as many. Male 

 and female fowers all solitary. Cahjx of males divided to the base, the lobes narrow, 

 membranous. 



G. (DiosPTiios) riLosxjLUS, Wall. Tropical forests of the Pegu Range and 



the Andamans. 



jSTot flowering branchlets spaiingly pubescent. Leaves glabreseent. Calyx-tube 

 half the length of the corolla-lobes. 



G. (DiosPTRO.s) MOLLIS, Kz. Tropical forests of hills East of Toung-ngoo. 



Not flowering branchlets densely villous. Leaves beneath permanently softly 

 pubescent. Calyx-tube a little shorter than the corolla-lobes. 

 Yery near to the last species. 



DiosPTEOS, Linnaus. 



Calyx- and corolla-loles usually 4-6. Mah flowers clustered or cymose, the 

 females solitary, or rarely in cymes or panicles. Calyx of males gamosepalous. 



Sub-genus Amfxis, Hiern. 



Calyx in bud globular and closed, the lubes connate but afterwards bursting 

 irregularly into 2 or 3 lobes. Corolla tubular, o-lobed. Ocary-cells as many .as 

 corolla-lobes. 



D. Toposi.i, Ham. Chittagong. 



B. raceinosa, Eoxb. 

 Glabrous. Leaves coriaceous and elegantly not-veined. Corolla conspicuous, 

 about 4 lines long, very coriaceous. 



Sub-genus Er-DiosPTEos, D.C. 



Calyx toothed or lobcd, rarely truncate. Ovary-cells often twice as many as 

 corolla-lobes. 



* Calyx in. males short and truncate-toothed, in females large, deeply-loled. Corolla 

 urceolate, the lobes notched. Anthers 30-50. 



D. EMBEYOPTERis, Peps. Tcnassepim and Martaban. 



Embryopteris glatinifera, Roxb. 



Glabrous. Leaves coriaceous. 



** Calyx toothed or lobcd. CoroHa-lobcs not notched. Anthers about 20 or feirer. 

 X Corolla urceolate, in bud globular or conical, the tube short and inflated, the lobes 

 usually rounded and short. 



+ Flower-buds globular. Corolla quite glabrous. Flowers small, hardly a line long. 



D. cnAETACEi, "Wall. Tropical forests of Martaban. 



Loaves thin chartaceous, with strong prominent nerves, the net-venatiou distinct, 

 la.x. Ovary glabrous. 



D. EHRETioiDES, Wall. All ovcr Burma. 



Ouk-chin-za. 



Leaves thin-coriaceous, the nerves strong, the net-venatiou inconspicuous. Ovary 

 tawny-villous. 



-f -\- Flower-buds conical, acute, but never elongate. 

 f Ovary pubescent or villous. Leaves quite glabrous and glossy. 



D. TtAMiFLOR.^, Roxb. Tropical forests of Arakau. 



Flowers rather large, clustered, from the older branches. 



