58 S. Kurz — Contr Hut ions toimrds a [No. 2, 



Leaves acuminate, pubescent at least when young ; flower-heads solitary on a simple 



peduncle, | — f in. across, A. acummata. 



* * Beak shorter than the nut. 

 Leaves ohovate ; flower-heads \ in. across, solitary on a simple peduncle,. , A. pendula. 



1. A. ACUMINATA, Wall. Cat. 4014 ; Walp. Eep. II. 63 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. 16. {Conocarpus acuminatus, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 443 ; DC. Prod. 

 III. 17 ; WA. Prod. I. 316 ; DC. in Mem. d. Genev. IV. 35. t. 3). 



Var. a. gentjina, ovary and style villous j fruits and the beak more 

 or less pubescent. 



Var. )8. PHiLLTEE^FOLiA, {A. pliillyrece folia, Heurck and Muell. 

 Arg. Obs. Bot. 209), ovary and style minutely appressed-j)ubescent ; fruits 

 and beak glabrous or nearly so. 



Hab. Var. a. frequent in the mixed (especially the upper ones) and 

 also in tro23ical forests, from Chittagong and Martaban down to Tenasse- 

 rim, up to 3000 ft. elevation ; var. ^. restricted to the alluvial plains of 

 Ava, Prome, and Pegu, chiefly in the swamp-forests. — Fl. Febr., March ; Fr. 

 Apr., May. 



This tree is remarkable by the bark, which consists of herbaceous green 

 tubercles covered with a smooth grey epidermis which is easily scraped off. 

 By this mark the tree can be recognised from all others in Burma, but 

 in the plains (the var. /3.) the bark becomes white marmorate and conchoid 

 (as in Emhlica officinalis). I should certainly have specifically separated 

 this swamp variety had I not met with trees that bore both kinds of bark. 



Quisqualis, L. 



1. Q. Indica, L. sp. pi. 556 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2033 ; Bot. Reg. t, 492 ; 

 DC. Prod. III. 23 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 11. 427 ; Wight Illust. I. t. 92 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I/l. 610 ; Griff. Not. Dicot. 683 (Q. longijiora, Presl. Epim. 

 216; Walp. Ann. II. 860). 



Var. a. genuina, bracts leafy, from ovate and lanceolate to linear- 

 lanceolate ; petals oblong or elliptically oblong, blunt or nearly so. 



Var. /8. viLLOSA, (Q. villosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 426 ; DC. Prod. 

 III. 23), bracts subulate to linear, small and inconspicuous ; petals usually 

 obovate and often almost notched. 



Var. y. oxypetala, as preceding, but the petals broadly lanceolate 

 and acute or nearly so. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical and lower mixed forests from 

 Ava and Pegu down to Tenasserim ; var. y. Ava, Khakyen hills east of 

 Bhamo (J. Anderson). — Fl. March to May. 



