643 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXB PPiODUCTIOSS. 



P. AKILLATA, Ham. Ava. 



Flowers yellow. Keel-crest 2-lobcd, the lobes many-eleft. Capsule coriaceous. 

 Stnipliiole very large. 



Salomonia, Loiireirn. 



Stamens 4 or .i. Srpiilx almost equal, petal-like. Stems leafy. Not parasitic. 



X Scandnit shruls. 

 ° Leaves on short petioles, cordate or ovate. 

 S. Caxtoxiensis, Lour. Pegu. Tenasscrim. 



Glabrous. Leaves acute. Capsules crested. 



S. longiciliata, Kz. Pegu Range, between Pansuay and Myodwin. 



Blunt leaves and stems along the wings fringed. Capsules crested. 



° ° Leaves sessile. 



S. OBLoxGiFOLiA, DC. Tenasscrim. 



8. ohovata, Wiglit. 

 S. aiiffalata, Griff. 



Glabrous or nearly so, leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate. 



Sub-genus Epiehizaxthes, B1. Pai'asitic, leafless or scaly. 



S. (Epirhizanthes) ctlendrica, pi. Tenasserim, on bamboo-trunks between 



S. aphi/Ila, Gritf. decayed wood. 



S. parasitica, Griff. 



SEcrniDACA, Liiinaus. 



Stamens 8, united. Fruit a l-celled iudeliiscent samara. 



S. i-VArpEXDicTLATA, Hassk. Cbittagong. Arakau. Tenasscrim. 



5. Tavoi/ana, Wall. 

 (S. scandens. Ham. 

 S. paniculata, Eoxb. 



XAXTHOPEYLLIEJE. 

 Petals and stamens free. Frait (/lobular, indehiscent. Albumen none. 



XANTnoPHTLLCM, Ro.ic}nirgh. 



Sepals sometimes unequal. Petals 5, free, declinate, the keel-petal boat-shaped. 

 Stamens 8, free, or partially adnata to the petals. Disk hypogynous, annular. Orari/ 

 1 -celled, or imperfectly 2-cclled, with 2 or more ovules variously attached. Sti/le 

 elongate. Fruit globular, with a thick rind, often 1-soeded. Albumen none. Trees 

 or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves. Flowers in racemes or panicles. 



* Ovary sessile {i.e. the stalk not exserted from the annular disk). 

 ° Panicle remoteli/ supra-a.villar>j {and terminal). 



X. viKENS, Eoxb. E.T. Tropical forests of Cbittagong and Pegu Eange. 



Leaves glaucous and rather opaque beneath. Panicles diffuse, glabrous. Calyx 

 and slender pedicels glabrous. Ovary minutely pubescent, the stigma broadly 2-lobed. 



° ° Panicles or racemes tr^dy a.rillarij {and terminal). 

 X Ovary and style villous. (Leaves glaucescent beneath.) 



X. EGLANDULosuM, Gritf. Teuasscrim. 



X. Grifthii, H. f. and Th. 



Panicles tawny pubcnilous. Pedicels thick, U-2 lines long, puberulous. 



