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corolla glabrous, the tube slender, 1-1} in. long, the lobes elliptically 
oblong, a little notched, only 2-3 lin. long; berries globular, 
crowned by the small calyx-limb, the size of a large pea, smooth, 
red. 
Has.—Rare in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah 
(Khaboung river).—Fl. May.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
11. I. cuneifolia, Roxb.—An evergreen shrub, all parts glabrous 
or rarely the young shoots minutely puberulous; stipules broadly — 
ovate, shortly acuminate, glabrous or puberulous ; leaves oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate or rarely ovate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the 
base, on a 3-5 lin. long petiole, shortly acuminate, 4-7 in. long, 
entire, pergamaceous, glabrous or minutely puberulous beneath ; 
flowers rather small, but conspicuous, pure white, on very short 
puberulous pedicels, cymulose, and forming a short-peduncled or 
sometimes sessile, trichotomously brachiate, shortly pubescent termi- 
nal thyrsoid panicle supported by a pair of stipule-like, ovate, acu- 
minate, small leaflets at the first branching; bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate to subulate, along with the floral stipules more or less 
puberulous ; calyx more than } lin. long, glabrous, the teeth lanceo- 
late, nearly as long as the tube; corolla glabrous, the tube 
slender, about 4 an in, long or rarely longer, the lobes elliptically 
oblong, 4-4 as long-as the tube; berries obovoid, the size of a 
large pea, crowned by the small calyx-limb, smooth, red. 
Var. 1, Roxburghii: panicle sessile or short-peduncled ; leaves 
glabrous. 
Var. 2, puberula: panicle usually longer-peduncled; leaves 
minutely puberulous beneath. 
Var. 3, pumila: only 1-3 ft. high, simple or nearly so; 
flowers often pale rose-coloured ; cymes small and short, but more 
slender. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the Eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim; var. 3: in the Eng forests on 
laterite. —Fl. Feb.-Apr.—s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. 
12. I. parviflora, Vhl; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 222; Brand. For. 
Fl. 275.—An evergreen tree (25—30+10—12+2—3), all parts 
glabrous; stipules broadly lanceolate, acuminate ; leaves obovate- 
oblong to elliptically oblong, rounded or obtuse at the base, on a 
thick petiole 1-2 lin. long or almost sessile, acute or blunt, 3-4 
in. long, entire, thin-coriaceous, glabrous ; flowers small, white, 
sessile, cymulose, forming a brachiate, trichotomous, short-pedun- 
cled, somewhat puberulous, thyrsoid panicle at the end of the branch- 
lets ; bracts lanceolate, small ; calyx about 4 lin. long, glabrous, 
the teeth short, triangular, acute ; corolla glabrous, the tube only 
2-24 lin. long; stigma shortly exserted ; style pilose ; berries glo- 
