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4. P, symplocifolia, Kz.— An evergreen shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; stipules broad-ovate, subulate-acuminate ; leaves from 
obovate-lanceolate to elliptically obovate, at the base more or less 
tapering into a 2-3 lin. long petiole, shortly and abruptly acumi- 
nate or almost apiculate, 24-4. in. long, entire, with the borders 
somewhat recurved, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers small, white, 
almost sessile, in small cymes arranged in a slightly tawny-puberu- 
lous, elongate peduncled panicle at the end of the branchlets ; calyx 
cup-shaped, about a line in diameter, obsoletely 5-toothed ; corolla 
small, glabrous outside ; berries oblong, the size of a pea, smooth, 
bluish black ; pyrenes with a strong longitudinal dorsal rib, and hence 
almost 3-gonous ; albumen equable. : 
Has.—In the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo, at 
5,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. March—SS.—Metam. 
P, polyneura, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, all softer parts 
covered with a rusty-brown short pubescence ; stipules large, broadly 
ovate, connate, 2-cleft at the apex, rusty-pubescent; leaves ob- 
long-lanceolate to elliptically oblong, acute at the ase, on a 
rusty-pubescent petiole 3-13 in. long, 6-10 in. long, shortly acu- 
minate, entire, membranous, glabrous above, minutely rusty-pubes- 
cent beneath, the lateral nerves numerous, crowded and parallel ; 
flowers small, white, sessile, in small peduncled clusters arranged 
in trichotomous or almost whorled rusty-tomentose corymb-like 
cymes arising from the end of the branchlets; calyx rusty 
tomentose ; berries unknown. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fl. 
May.—s. 
6. P. Helferiana, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, all parts hirsute 
from stiff, short, brownish or blackish hairs ; stipules lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2-cleft to near the base, densely appressed rusty-hirsute ; 
leaves lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, on an appressed brown- 
hirsute petiole 4-1 in. long, 3-44 in, long, entire, membranous, 
shortly hirsute on both sides ; flowers minute, greenish white, ses- 
sile, in dense short-peduncled heads arranged in a short rather com- 
pact brown-hirsute cyme at the end of the branches ; calyx brown- 
hirsute, about a line long, the teeth lanceolate ; corolla glabrous, 
bearded at the throat, the tube nearly a line long, the lobes as long ; 
berries oval, crowned by the hirsute calyx-limb, the size of a pea, 
sparingly hirsute, orange-coloured; pyrenes triangular, keeled on 
the back, flat on the inner face ; albumen equable. 
Has.—Tenasserim (or Andamans ?). 
7. P. monticola, Kz.—An evergreen low shrub, 1-3 ft. high, 
all parts glabrous ; stipules 2-cleft, lanceolate or broad, acuminate, 
