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Tlic (lifFiTMit speoics of AbutHon yield by maceration a good fibi-e, fit both for 

 ropes and jji-obably also jiapiu'. A decoction of tlic plant is umollieut, and possessed 

 of the same properties as the marsh-mallows of Eiu'opc. 



URENIE.E. 

 Stamiiial column truncate or o-tootked at apex, hearing the anthers or filaments on 

 the outside. Style-branches twice as many as ovary-cells. Carpels 1-secded. 



TJkena, Zinnaus. 

 Bracteoles 5, cormate at base. Carpels opposite the petals, muricate. 



* Capsules longer than the sepals, glochidiate and bristly tomentose. 

 U. LOBATA, L. Common, in uncultivated places, and 



Kat-sae-nai or AVct-kyac-pa-uai (generic). '" li"'f-shedding forests from Chitta- 



gong and Ava down to Tenasserim up 

 to 3000 ft. elevation. The Nicobars. 



* * Carpels included in the calyx, smooth or net-veined. 

 ° Petals l.V to nearly 2 inches long, forming a large funnel-shaped corolla. 



U. BiorDA, "Wall. Open forests of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim. 



Leaves almost rotundate, very scabrous on botb surfaces. Flowers forming dense 

 leafy terminal heads. 



U. spEciosA, "Wall. Mixed forests of Ava and Pegu. 



Leaves uudirncath softly tomentose, scabrous above, the lower ones usually 

 lobed. Flowers in loose spreading terminal racemes. 



°° Petals 4 lines long, fanning a rotate corolla. Iniolacre longer than the calyx. 



Pavoxia, Caranille-1. 



Bracteoles C> or more, usually free, herbaceous or bristle-like. Carpels opposite 

 the sepals, variously armed or smooth. 



B. Fruit a capsule, deliiscent or rarely indehiscent. 



*' llractcoles 5-6. Carpels indehiscent. 



P. (LEBREToyiA) PKocuMiiENS, Wall. Ava. 



/'. glechomifolia, A. llieh. 



Flowers yellow. Carpels muricate. 



* liracteoles 10 or more. Carpels dehiscent. 



P. Zeylamca, Willd. Banks of the Irrawaddv near Ava. 



Flowers pink. Carpels unarmed, the margins slightly but sharply produced. 



" All the Burmese specimens seen by mo (including P. rosea, "Wall., Cat. 1887, 

 witli liairv carpels) belong to the above species, none to P. udorata, Willd., for which 

 Masters gives Buruia as a habitat " (Kurz). 



UIIilSCIE.F.. 



Staminal column truncate or ii-tootlicd at summit, hearing the anthers or f laments 

 outside or also on the summit itself. Style-branches or ■•<tiymas as many as ovary-cells. 



° Style branched at the summit, the branches spreading or radiating. Seeds reniform. 



Kydia, Roxburgh. 



Flowers polygamous. Bracteoles 3-4, leafy, connate at base, enlarging and 

 spreading under ihe li'uit. Sepals 5, connate below the miilrib. Petals as many. 



