626 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



Sub-genus Stnapiea. 



Stamens only 15-18, the connective terminated in an acute gland. Sti/le filiform. 

 Nuts only to about i of their length adnate to the calyx-tube. 



A. ODORATA, Griff. T. ^ Tenasserim. 



Vatica grtmdijiora, Dyer. 



Young shoots covered by a mealy or scuiTy tomentum. 



Sub-genus Anisoptera. 



Sfnmeiis numerous, the connective produced into a bristle, style thick and ovoid. 

 Nuts inferior or nearly so. 



A. GLABRA, Kz. E.T. Pegu Range and hills East of Toung-ngoo. 



Thyt-hud5 (Kurz). 



Apparently quite glabrous. 



A. OBLONGA, Dyer. Mergui. 



Differs from the preceding in the unequally prominent nerves of the calyx-wings. 



A. SCAPHUIA, Eoxb. T. Chittagong. 



Connective terminated by a short point, mucronate. Leaves oblong, blunt. 



** Orari/ free, superior. Nuts free, either inclosed in the enlarged calyx-tube or 

 exjjosed and the ea!i/.v-tube hard/i/ enlarged. 



° Calg.i--tahe in, fruit very enlarged, completelg inclosing the nut. 



DirTEROCAKPUS, Guertner. 



Cahj.t 5-lobed, with a turbinate or urccolato free tube. Petals somewhat 

 cohering at base, spreading. Stamens numerous, free or nearly so, the connective 

 produced into a cuspidate point. Orary free, 3-eelled. Stjile filiform. Nut woody, 

 1- rarely 2-seeded, free, and inclosed in the enlarged calyx-tube. The caly.r-lolies 

 enlarged, 3 of them remaining short, the 2 others growing out into long wings. 

 Leaves entire, or coarsely repand-crenate. Lofty trees. 



* Calyx-tube in fruit more or less globular, ovoid or turbinate, without any ribs 

 or longitudinal wings on its belly. 



° Cali/x-tuhe in fruit towards the top produced into 5 compressed hnobs, each situated 

 between 2 lubes. 



D. TUEERCULATus, Roxb. Cliittagong to Tenasserim. 



Eng. 



Leaves glabrous or puberulous beneath. Stipules pubcrulous. 



Tree often with a clean stem 50 feet high and 10 feet in girth. The tree yields 

 no wood oil, but a clear yellow resin. "Wood brown, 55 lbs. to the cubic foot, works 

 well and is lasting for indoor work where pmtected from the sun and rain. 



Dr. Mason writes : " Tbis is a tree of the wood oil tree tribe, remarkably charac- 

 teristic of a sandy soil. It abounds on the sandy plains near the sea shore at Mong- 

 magon, and is e(iually common on a similar soil in the interior. It produces a valuable 

 timber which is sawn and sold extensively in Toung-ngoo. The Burmese call it en." 

 Mason adds that "Wallich referred the "f»" to I), grandifiora, MacClelland to alatus, 

 and Kurz now identifies it with tubereulatns. The deduction seems to me to be that the 

 Burmese word En or Eng is applied indiiferently to more species than one, and hence 

 probably the difference of opinion touching the value of Eng timber, one writer having 

 in view one tree of the name, and other writers quite a difl'crent tree. 



° ° Calyx-tube in fruit perfectly terete. 

 X Leaves glabrous and glossy. 



D. L.^vis, Ham. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



D. turbinatus, Roxb. 

 I), grandi/lora. Griff. 



