55G BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



* Fruit iiidiliinccnt, dnipaccous,fle!>liij or rarely corticate or crustaccous. 



X Fruit entire, \~A-celled. 



° Xo petals. Flowers polygamously dicecious. 



9 

 SCHLEICHERA, TTilldeHOW. 



Cali/x small, valvute or nearly so. I)islc unilateral. Seeds arillate. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate. 



S. TKUrGA, Wilkl. Common in leaf-sLeJdLng forests from Ava to 



J- Tenasserim. 



Dr. JIason remarks: "The fruit of tliis tree resembles the wild ' rambutan ' 

 {Nephelium lappaceum) in everything except that is covered with prickles half an inch 

 long. It is rarely seen in the market, but would be a valuable addition to the dessert. 

 The tree grows among the hills of Tavoy." 



The wood is a pale lively brown, very handsome, hard, close-grained and tough, 

 weighing 68 lbs., and is a most valuable one, being both useful for strength, and com- 

 mendable when polished for beauty (W.T.). 



° '^ Petals present, furnished with scales. Flowers poli/ffamously monoecious. 

 Lepisaxthes, Blume. 

 Flowers regular. Bisk regularly annular. Learcs pinnate. 



L. MONTAjfA, Bl. Tavoy. 



L. Browniana, Hiern. 



Leaves quite glabrous, not stiff. Eacemes short and dense, clustered to almost 

 solitary, axillary. Pedicels robust, h line long. Petals inside and scale glabrous. 



L. BrEMAxicA, Kz. Tenasserim. 



L. Montana, Hiern. non Bl. 



A small palm-like tree. Leaves large and stiff. Leaflets slightly puberulous on 

 the midrib beneath, rigid. Eacemes in larger or smaller axillary pauicles. Pedicels 

 capillary, li-2 lines long. 



" Leaves very similar to those of X. sessilijlora, Bl. I fear that I am to a 

 certain degree to blame for Hiern's misidentiticatiou of the plant, in having referred 

 Brandis' specimens, as also my own, to Blume's L. montana, under which name I also 

 put it down in my preliminary Eejiort on the Pegu forests. It was hardly possible 

 to avoid such mismatchings in a Eeport which was drawn up in less than fifteen 

 months, in which period more than 1000 species had to be named, and keys furnished 

 for the discrimination of the species " (Kurz). 



Hemigyeosa, Blume. 

 Flowers irregular. I>isl unilateral, cushion-like. Leaves pinnate. 

 H. CANEscEXs, Eoxb. Tenasserim. 



Fruit fleshy, 3-gonously ovoid, the size of a bullet, densely greyish velvety. 



X X Fruit divided deeply or to the hase into 3-2 lohes, the hies ojten solitary by 

 abort iun. 



° Flowers irregular. Arillus none. 

 f Leaves pinnate. Trees. 



DiTTELASJiA, Jlooher, f. 



Fruit deeply 1-3-lobed, the lobes drupaceous, globose. Testa bony. Embryo 

 ciUTcd. Bish half crescent-shaped. 



D. RAEAK, DC. FT. Pegu llange and Tenasserim. 



Sapindus 2}olyphyllus, Eoxb. 



