152 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 2, 



5. M. PEESlCiEFOLiA, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 535 ; DC. 

 Prod. IV. 447. 



Var. a. GEisrTJiNA, all parts quite glabrous. 



Var. /5. SCABEA, all softer parts more or less rough from a minute 

 indistinct pubescence. 



Hab. Common in the savannahs from Ava and Martaban down to 

 Upper Tenasserim ; var. /3. in the dry forests of the Prome District. — Fl. 

 March — May ; Fr. June. 



6. M. Wallichii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 313. 

 Hab. Tenasserim (Revd. Parish, 316). 



7. M. TETRANDRA, Jack Mai. Misc. II. 13 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 

 II. 201 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 246. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Mai'taban and Tenas- 

 serim. 



8. M. SPECIOSA, Wall. Cat. 8436 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 62. {Ben- 

 nellia speciosa, Bth. and Hf. Gen. pi. II. 118). 



Hab. Upper Tenasserim, Chappedong hills (Wall.). 



Vangueria, Comm. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



+ Unarmed. 

 All parts glabrous ; stigma mitre- shaped, V. edulis. 



X X Armed with opposite sharp spines. 



All parts glabrous ; berries about an inch thick, Y. spinosa. 



All softer parts (also the corolla) pubescent ; berries up to | inch thick, .... V. pubescens. 



*1. y. EDULIS, Vhl. Symb. III. 36 ; WA. Prod. I. 421 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind Bat. II. 249. — (V. Commersonii, Desf. in Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. I. 

 t.44). 



Hab. Chittagong, planted in gardens (Wall.). 



2. V. SPINOSA, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 11. 172 ; DC. Prod. IV. 454. 

 Hab. Not unfrequent in the mixed dry forests of the Prome District. 



Fl. March. 



3. V. PUBESCENS, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 314. 



Hab. Here and there in the eng and the mixed dry forests from Ava 

 and Martaban down to Pegu. — Fl. March, April. 



Plectronia, L. 



{Polyozus, Miq., non Lour.) 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Pyrenes qiiite smooth, triangular and almost keeled. 



Unarmed, glabrous ; flowers in dichotomous elongate -branched cymes, P. glabra. 



* * Fyrenes more or less wrinkled and tubercled, rounded on the back, 



X Unarmed shrubs or trees. 



