1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. Gl 



Baruingtonia. Stamons all perfect. Ovary 2- or 4-ccllod, with numerous ovules 

 in each cell. Fruit fibrous or fleshy, often angular, 1- or very rarely 2 — 4-sceded. 



Careva. Outer or inner scries, or hotli, without anthers. Fruit globose to ovoid, 

 many-seeded, the seeds imbedded in pulp. Ovary 4-cclled. 



Melaleuca, L. 

 1. M. LEUCADENDR0I7, L. Mant. 105 : DC. Prod. III. 212 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. III. 397; Bth. Fl. Austr. III. 142. {M. Gajaputi, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 Ill: 394 ; M. minor, Sm. in llees Cycl. V. 23. No. 2 ; DC. Prod. III. 

 212). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui, rare (Grriff.). 



Tristania, R. Br. 



ConspectiLs of S_pecies. 



* Calyx-lobes blunt or almost so. 



Leaves sessile or nearly so, rigidly coriaceous, glossy on both sides ; flowers sessile or 

 nearly so ; calyx about 3 lin. across, T. Merguensis. 



Leaves petioled, thin coriaceous, opaque beneath ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx only 1^ 

 lin. across ; capsule exserted, T. Burmanica. 



* * Calyx-lobes subulate-acuminate. 



Leaves crowded, narrowed at both ends ; flowers rather large ; capsule hardly exserted, 



.. T. Griffithii. 



1. T. Mekguensis, Griff, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1854. 637 {T. 

 affinis, Griff. Not. Dicot. 650. t. 636. f. 3). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui, along the coast (Griff, and Hel£. 2341), 

 — Fl. Aug. 



2. T. BuEMANiCA, Griff, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1854. 637.— fT. sp. 

 Griff. Not. Dicot. 648?) 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the eng- and hill-eng-forests, from Mar- 

 taban down to Tenasserim, also ascending into the drier hill-forests up to 

 4000 ft. elevation ; according to Dr. Brandis also in the Pegu Yomah, 

 — Fl. March, Apr. ; Fr. Apr., May. 



3. T. Griffithii, (T. conferta, Griff. Not. Dicot. 649, vix R. Br.). 

 Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff.) — Fl. Fr. Jan. 



Decaspermum, Forst. 



1. D. PANicuLATUM, {Nelitris paniculata, Ldl. Collect, sub No. 16 ; 

 DC. Prod. III. 231 ; Wight Icon. t. 521 ; Eugenia polygama, Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. II. 491 ; N. polygama, Bl. Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I. 474 ; N. pallescens, Miq. Suppl. Fl. Sumatr. 314). 



Var. a. genuina, pedicels longer, calyx-lobes 5, more equal and usually 

 somewhat acute ; flowers in simple rarely branched racemes. 



Var. /S. THYKSOIDEA, {N. paniciUata, Wall. Cat. 3627), pedicels shor- 

 ter, sometimes very short ; calyx-lobes 4, usually unequal, more or less 

 rounded ; flowers somewhat smaller, often in thyrsoid racemes. 



