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entire. Flowers polygamo- dioecious, minute, racemose, minutely bracteo- 

 late. Calyx-tube shortly campanulate ; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, (or 

 6), oblong, decidaous. Stamens 2 perfect unilateral, and several imper- 

 fect. Carpel 1, adnate to one sid.e of the calyx-tube, 1-celled ; style basilar ; 

 ovales 2, erect. Fruit oblong, coriaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent. 

 Seed solitary, erect; testa membranous, pubescent; cotyledons fleshy, 

 radicle inferior, plumule hairy. 



Parastemon urofhtllum, a. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. XVill, 

 208. A tall tree with pendulous habit, young branches very slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes 

 slightly oblanceolate, obtusely caudate-acuminate, the base much 

 narrowed; both surfaces glabrous, the lower minutely lepidote ; main 

 nerves very faint, 4-6 pairs, oblique, the intermediate alpiost as distinct ; 

 length 2"5-3 in., breadth •85-l*5 in., petiole '25 in. Racemes nearly as 

 long as the leaves, slender, axillary, glabrous, usually solitary but some- 

 times 2 together. Flowers '15 in. long to the apex of the stamens, on 

 short pedicels each with a minute concave ovate bracteole at its base. 

 Fi'uit cylindi-ic, tapering a little to each end, glabrous, '45 in. long, and 

 •25 in. in diam. 



In all the provinces, except the Andamans, 



3. Pkunus, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, quite entire, or serrate 

 or crenate or glandular-serrulate ; petiole often 2-glaudular. Floivers 

 white or red, solitary, fascicled, corymbose or racemed. Calyx deciduous 

 in fruit ; lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5. Stamens 15-60, perigynous, 

 inserted in the mouth of the calyx-tube, filaments free. Carpel 1 ; style 

 terminal ; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Drupe with an indehiscent 

 or 2-valved, 1-seeded, smooth, or rugged stone. Seed pendulous, testa 

 membranous or coriaceous, albumen scanty or 0. Disteib. N^. temp, 

 regions, rare in the tropics; species about 80. 



Prunus martabanica, Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 434. A tree 40-60 

 feet high ; all parts, except the inflorescence, quite glabrous ; young 

 branches rather slender, lenticellate. Leaves membranous, elliptic-ob- 

 long to ovate-oblong, acuminate, suddenly slightly and often unequally 

 narrowed to the base, with minute black dots on the lower surface ; 

 main nerves 5-7 pairs, spreading, very faint ; length 3-6 in., breadth 

 r65-2'5 in. ; petiole •4-*75 in., eglandular. Racemes solitary or in pairs, 

 from the axils of fallen leaves and about as long as the leaves, pubes- 

 cent. Flowers rather distant, about '35 in. in diam. on puberulous 

 pedicels ^-^o in. long. Calyx-tube campanulate, tomentose ; the lobes 

 erect, ovate, subacute. Petals orbicular, about 1 in. long, deciduous. 



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