680 BURMA, ITS PEOriE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



Le.aves oblong, not cordate at the base, membranous, the j^etiole \-% inch long, 

 reclicels slender, about \ line long. 



I. TOMENTELLA, Miq. E. C. Upper Tenasserim. 



Leaves more or less oval, cordate at the base, coriaceous, the petiole 2-4 lines 

 long. Flowers almost sessile. 



X X Pedicels thick and woodi/. 



I. HOOKERlA^fA, EaiU. TT". C. Chittagong. 



Drupes orange, smooth, about an inch long. Fruits and habit of Sarcoitignm. 

 An ovary, already engrossed, showed a solitary erect basal ovule (Kurz). 



C'AEriiorTERis, WuUich. 

 Sepals and petals imbricate. Fruit dry, winged, juice miliy. Annual twiners. 

 C. LOBATA, Wall. Ava to Tenasserim. 



C. hamulosa, Griff. 



C. Jiicanica, Bl. 



GERANIALES. 

 Fhneers often irregular. Disk usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced 

 to glands, rarely uoue. Geary of several caipels, syncarpous or sub -apocarpous. 

 Oeides one or two, rarely many, ascending or pendulous, raphe usually ventral. 



Order CHAILLETIACE.^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, or unisexual. Sepals 5, united, or free, imbricate, 

 sometimes unequal. Petals 5, free, and equal, or connate and unequal, 2-cleft or 

 2-lobed. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals, and adnate to their base, alternating 

 with as many hypogynous glands or disk-lobes. Ovary free, 2-3-celled, with paired 

 pendulous ovules in each cell. Styles 2-3, free, or united higher up. Stigma simple, 

 or capitate. Drupe diy, containing a 1-2-ceIled bony or crustaceous, sometimes 

 2-parted stone. 



Chailletia, Do Candolle. 

 X Nerves and net-venation beneath more or less conspicuous. 

 C. GEioxioiDEs, Bth. F.T. Chittagong. 



Cymes cluster-like and almost sessile. Leaves green, cuneately narrowed into a 

 very short petiole. 



C. maceopetala, Turcz. F.T. Tenasserim. 



Cymes spreading, ptdunclcd ? Leaves dark-brown in a dried state. 



X X Nerves and net-venation leneath very faint and almost impressed. 

 C, IIelferiak^a, Kz. Tenasserim. 



Cymes on a 2-3 lines peduncle. Leaves brown when di-ied, shortly petioled. 



Order MELIACE^. 



Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, rarely polygamous, dioecious. Calyx 

 usually small, 4-5-lobcd, or the sepals distinct, imbricate, very rarely valvate. Petals 

 4, 5, rarely 5-7 or 3 only, the filaments inserted outside on the disk, more or less 

 united in a tube, very rarely quite free. Anthers sessile, or rarely stipitate, on the 

 inside or at the summit of the staminal tube, 2-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. 

 Disk various, free or adnate. Ovary 3-5-celled, with usually 2 (rarely 1-6 or more) 

 ovules in each cell. Stigma disk-shaped or pyramidal. Fruit a capsule, beny, or 



