568 BCR.VA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



beneath. Stems and petioles terete or nearly so. Peduncle compressed-cornered. 

 Bracts and bractlets small, linear-lanceolate. Flowers greenish-white. Shrub. 



L. jEqfata, L. Tropical forests of Tenasserim and 



L. lilrta, Honiem. the Andamans. 



Nga-mouk (Kurz). 



All parts stifF-pubescent. Leaflets membranous, beneath densely gland-dotted. 

 Petioles terete. Bracts large, broadly ovate, blunt. Under shrub. 



L. KOBusTA, Roxb. (non Laws.). Arakan and Pegu. 



L. dijfusa, Laws. 



Almost glabrous or greyish puberulous. Leaves 2-3-pinnate. Leaflets puberu- 

 lous or glabrous, not gland-dotted beneath. Bracts and bractlets none. Shrub. 



L. robmta, Laws. = Z. Simdaica, Miq. (Kurz). 



L. EtJBiLi, Bl. Attaran Valley. 



Stems, petioles, etc., quite glabrous. Leaflets small, sprinkled with white stiff 

 hairs. Bracts or bractlets none. Under shrub. 



Kurz adds fi'om the Nicobars : 



L. ACULEATA, Bl. Katchall. 



L. GRANDiFOLiA, Kz. Katcliall, Trice and Track. 



L. SANGTJiNEA, "Wall. Ava. 



In his notes on Burmese Plants (.J.A.S.B. ii. 1873, p. 66) Kurz describes L. 

 sanguinea, Wall. ; but this species does not appear in his later paper. 



Order BHAMNACE^. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, or rarely polygamous. C(77y.c 4-5-lobed or cleft, 

 the tube persistent, and often adnate to the ovary or disk, valvate. Petals 4-5, alter- 

 nating with the calyx-lobes, or none. Stamens 4-5', opposite to the petals if present. 

 Filammts filiform, rarely dilated. Anthers small, often included in the petals, rarely 

 exserted. Bisk usually tilling the calyx-tube, or lining it, or annular, rarely cup- 

 shaped and free, or wanting. Ovarxj more or less infeiior, 3- (or rarely 2-4-)celled, 

 with a solitary erect ovule in each cell. Style short, with as many lobes as cells to 

 the ovary. Fruit a drupe or capsule, the margin of the adnate calyx-base forming a 

 ring at the base, or round, or at the summit of the fruit, the endoearp separating into 

 as many cocci as cells, or forming a woody or bony 2-4-celled stone. Flowers small 

 or minute, in cymes or umbel-like clusters, often collected in axillary, or terminal 

 compound cymes, racemes or panicles. 



ZIZYPHIEJE. 

 Drupe containing a solid 1-3-celled pufamen, or the fruit a capsule or indehiscent 

 nut. Oriiri/ superior or half-superior. Disk fillinij the calij.t-tuhe. 



* Oruri/ half-superior or superior. Fruit a 7iut, dry, coriaceous, l-celled and 

 1-scedcd, or a capsule. 



Yextilago, Gaertncr. 



Kut produced into a long terminal wing, indehiscent. 



X Cahjx adnate to the drupe, sniall and basilar. 



y. Madevspataxa, Gaertn. S.S. Tenasserim. 



Flowers in slender simple or branched racemes. Kut indistinctly pidjerulous, the 

 wing only l-H inch long. 



X X Calyx adnate to the di upc for \~\ of its lenr/th, and form iny there a promi- 

 nent nnij. 



