660 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



M. spHExocAEPA, Roxb. CliittagoDg. Pegu. 



Liriodmdroti grandijlorum, Uosb. 



Maxglietia, Bluine. 



Petals 6 or more, in 2 or more rows. Anthrrs linear. Carpels sessile, many, 

 forming an oval or oblong cone, 6- or more-ovnled. llipe carpels almost ■woody, 

 persistent, free, dehiscing dorsally by a longitudinal slit. Seeds suspended from a 

 filiform funicle, the outer testa fleshy. Albumen oily. Trees with simple leaves 

 ami large terminal flowers. 



M. iNsiGNis, Bl. Pegu. 



MrcHELiA, Linneeus. 



Sepals and Petals usually conform, 9 or more, imbricate, in 3 or more rows. 

 Anthers linear. Carpels stalked, numerous, in spikes, with 8 or more ovules in each, 

 llipe carpels laxly spiked on the elongate torus, coriaceous, persistent, dehiscing 

 dorsally by a longitudinal slit. Seeds and albumen as in Manglietia. Flowers large, 

 solitary, axillary. 



M CHA3IPACA, L. Martaban (rare), Tenasserlm, Ava, Bhamo, Prome. 



M. aurantiaca, "Wall. 



Sa-ga. 



This tree, says Mason, is " in flower or fruit a great part of the year, and its 

 orange blossoms, -which are exquisitely fragrant, arc also used by Burmese maidens 

 to adorn their long dark hair." The yellow flowers are powerfully scented, and it is 

 one of the five flowers with which the Hindu God of Spring tips the five shafts of the 

 God of Love. The bark is bitter and aromatic, and used in intermittent fevers. 



Order AXOXACE.E. 



Flowers usually monoecious. Sepals 3, free or connate, usually valvate in bud. 

 Petals 6, hypogynous, in 2 rows, or the inner series wanting. Stamens numerous, 

 rarely definite, hypogynous, closely packed on the torus. Filaments short or wanting. 

 Anthers adnate, the cells extrorse or almost lateral, the connective often produced. 

 Ovaries several, or rarely solitary, free (in Anona connate). Styles short or none, 

 ovules one or more in each cell. Ripe carpels 1 or more on the torus, sessile, or 

 stalked, 1- or more-seeded, usually berry-like and indehiscent. Seeds glossy, crusta- 

 ceous or coriaceous. Albumen dense, ruminate, often divided almost to the axis into 

 horizontal plates. Embryo small or minute, the cotyledons diverging. Trees or 

 shrubs, often scandent, with alternate simple and entire leaves. Stipules none. 



UVARIE^-E. 

 Petals in 2 rows, 1 or both rows imbricate in bud. Stamens many, closely ^^rtfZ-fr?. 



UvAKiA, Linnaus. 



Sepals 3, usually united at the base, valvate in bud. Petals 6, imbricate in 2 rows, 

 sometimes united at base. Stainenx indefinite, the connective foliaccous or truncate- 

 dilated and produced beyond the anther-cells. Torus somewhat raised. Oraries many, 

 with numerous, rarely few, or a single ovule in each. Berries differently shaped, 

 many or by abortion few to 1-seeded. Scandent, rarely erect shrulis with opposite 

 leaves and usually conspicuous flowers. 



X Otules usually solitary, rarely 2 or 3. Frect shrubs. 

 TJ. FEEKUGixKA, Ham. F.S. The 'Eng' forests of the Irrawaddy zone, 



especially in Prome; also Upper Tenasserim. 



TTooker gives V dulcis, Dun., as a Burmese plant, but I suspect it is referable to 

 this species (Kurz). 



