638 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



* * Ilerhs with small flowers. Orary Z-celled. Capsules Z-valccd. 

 H. ELODEOiDEs, C'liois. Uliakycn Hills. 



Stems terete. Sepals glandular-ciliate. 



* * * Ilerhs. Ovary X-cdled. Flowers small. 



n. jAroNicrii, Thbg. Khakyen Hills. Yunzaleen at 2500 



feet, and Tenassciim. 

 Stems 4-angular. Sepals entire. 



* H. (Nokysca) CniNENSE, Voigt (M.). 



Capsules dehiscing loculicidally or sometimes both and septicidally. Seeds winged. 



Ckatoxtlon, Blume. 



Sepals and petals 5. Stamens triadelplious, the staminal bundles often alternating 

 with as many hypogynous glands. Orary 3-celIed, with 4 or more ovules in each 

 cell. Capsule 3-valved. opening loculicidally. Seeds winged at upper end. 



Trees or shrubs with simple dotted leaves. Flowers in axillary cymes or terminal 

 panicles, rarely solitary. 



Sub-genus Tkidesmis, Spach. 



Petals furnished at base with a scale. 



C. (Teidesjiis) formosdm, Korth. T. Tropical forests of_South Andaman. 



All parts glabrous, petals white, entire. 



C. riiuNiFLOEA, AYall. T. Ava. Martaban. Tenasserim. 



C. prunifolium [Calami lapsu, monente auctore). 



Pedicels, sepals, and beneath leaves pubescent. Petals lilac-fringed. T7ood 

 heavy, but perishable, soon "wormed" (Kurz). 

 Sub- genus Ancisteolobus, Spach. 

 Petals without a basal scale. 



* Flowers in axillary poor cymes or solitary. 



C. poLTANTnu.M, Korth. T. Tenasserim. Andamans. 



Leaves thin chartaceous, acute or blunt. Hypogynous glands present or absent. 

 Wood heavy, brown, fibrous, close-grained (Kurz). 



X X Flowers in terminal panicles. 

 C. NEEiiFOLmr, Kz. T. Mixed forests from Chittagong to Tenasserim. 



Bai-bya. 



Leaves linear-oblong, usually almost sagittate-produced at base, chartaceous. 

 Wood heavy, brown, softish. 



C. AEBOKEscENs, Bl. F.S. Tonassorim. 



Leaves more or less obovate-oblong, coriaceous. 

 Dr. Mason adds : 

 ^Brathys Japonia, Wight. 



Order ELATINEJE. 



Sepals 2-5. Petals 2-5, hypogynous, imbricate. Stamens as many as or double 

 the number of the petals, hypogynous. Ovary 3-5-celled. Ovules anatropous. 



Ovary-cells with several ovules. Albumen none. Perianth complete. Fruit a capsule. 



