482 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



ROSALES. 

 Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regnlar or irregular. Carpels one, or more, 

 usually quite free in bud, sometimes variously united afterwards with the calyx-tube, 

 or inclosed in the swollen top of the peduncle. Sti/les usually distinct. 



Order HAilAiEELIDEJi:. 



Flowers regular or irregular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth in male 

 flowers sometimes wanting. Calyx-tuhe more or less adnate to the ovary, the limb 

 truncate, or 4-5-lobed, valvate or imbricate. Petals as many, more, or fewer than 

 calyx-lobes, or none. Stamens 4 or more, definite or indefinite, perigynous, 1-seriate. 

 Filaments free. Anthers 2-celled, the cells opening laterally in various ways. Ovary 

 inferior or half-inferior, rarely superior, consisting usually of 2 or rarely more carpels, 

 usually free at the apex, and beaked, with 2 suspended ovules in each cai'pel, or 

 rarely more, on axile placentas. Style usually persistent. Fruit a capsule, the 

 carpels visually diverging at the apex, and each one opening in 2 short valves. 

 Albumen thin fleshy. Trees or shrubs with usually alternate, simple or tri-lobed 

 leaves. Flowers small, usually collected in heads, rarely racemose or spicate. 



BucKLAXDiA, R. Browne. 



Flowers polygamous, in heads, the calyces confluent. Calyx-tuhe almost cam- 

 panulatc, adhering to the ovary, the limb repand-5-lobed. Petals in hermaphrodite 

 flowers linear-spatulate, often converted into stamens, in females reduced to 4 and 

 rudimentary. Stamens 10 to 14, the filaments unequal, subulate. Anthers unequally 

 2-valved, the connective apiculate. Ovary semi-inferior, bifid at top, 2-celled with 

 6 biseriate ovides in each cell. Styles 2, recurved thick. Capsule nearly free, woody, 

 2-valved and 2-celleJ, the valves bifid, the cells 6-seeded or less, the fertile seeds 

 winged upwards. 



C. (LiaurDAMBER) TEiCTJSPis, Miq. Hills East of Toung-ngoo, from 4000 



B. populnea, K. Br. to 7200 feet. 



A superb evergreen tree up to eighty feet in height. Leaves broadly ovate, 

 glossy and coriaceous. Flower-heads small, greenish, compact on thick peduncles, 

 covered with a rusty or coppery pubescence. Capsules as large as a pea, almost 

 globular, seated on the cup-shaped calyces united into a solid head. Wood brown, 

 heavy and close-grained, but soon attacked by insects. It is marked with the 

 microscopic disks characteristic of all coniferous woods, and of many HammeUdae and 

 Maguoliacea3. 



Altixoia, Noronh. 



Flowers unisexual, in heads supported by a single bract. In males. Calyx and 

 corolla none. Stamens packed into a globular head. Filaments short. Anthers 

 4-cornered. In females, Calyees confluent, without Umb. Petals none. Anthers 

 rudimentary. Ovary semi-inferior, 2-cclled, with many ovules in each cell. Placenta 

 axile. Carpels produced into subulate recurved caducous styles, dipsules united into 

 a globular head, each capsule opening superiorly by 2 valves. A single seed only 

 fertile, winged and angular, the rest sterile. Leaves alternate, simple, glandular, 

 serrate and deciduous. 



A. EXCELSA, Iforonh. Tenasserim and Khakyen Hills. 



Sedywickia cerasifolia, Griff'. 



Nan-ta-yok. 



Mason writes: "The tree is indigenous on the Tenasserim Coa.st, and in some 

 sections is quite abundant. A considerable stream in the province of Mergui derives 

 its name from this tree, in consequence of its growing so thick on its banks. It 

 seems to have escaped the notice of Dr. Heifer, for if I recollect right, it is not once 

 alluded to in any of his reports, nor has it ever been brought to notice by any one, 



