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glabrous, turning blackish or fuscescent in drying; flowers small, 
sessile, forming a trichotomous, shorter or longer peduncled, glabrous, 
terminal, corymbose cyme usually supported by a pair of diminutive 
lanceolate leaflets; bracts small, linear; calyx glabrous, about a 
line long, the teeth nearly as long as the tube, lanceolate; corolla 
glabrous, the tube about 4 lin. long, the lobes nearly half so long ; 
style stiff, long-exserted, 2-lobed. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr. 
21. I. sessiliflora, Kz.—An evergreen, large, branchy shrub, 
all parts quite glabrous ; stipules from a broad rounded base abruptly 
acuminate ; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rounded at the base, 
ona thick 2-3 lin. long petiole, shortly acuminate, 3-4 in. long, entire, 
thin-coriaceous, glabrous ;- flowers pale rose-coloured, especially the 
tube, rather small, sessile, forming a rather small, trichotomous, 
glabrous, corymbose cyme on a } in. long, glabrous, terminal pe- 
duncle; calyx about 4 lin. long, glabrous, the teeth very short ; 
corolla glabrous, the tube slender, nearly 3 in. long, the lobes ovate- 
oblong, rather acute, 2 lin. long; stigma shortly exserted. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill forests of the Martaban hills east of 
Tounghoo, at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation —Fl. Apr.—SS.—Metam. 
22. I. rugosula, Wall.—An evergreen tree (20—25+10—12+4 
13-2), all parts quite glabrous; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong, 
base, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate or apiculate, 5-7 in. long, entire, pergamaceous, quite 
glabrous ; flowers white, rather small, sessile or nearly so, forming — 
a small sessile or almost sessile minutely puberulous cyme at the end 
of the branchlets; calyx a line long, a little short-hairy, the teeth 
lanceolate, acuminate, nearly as long as the calyx-tube; corolla 
glabrous, the tube slerider, about $ an in. long, the lobes } so long, 
oblong; stigma shortly exserted; berries irregularly elliptically 
oblong, the size of a cherry-stone, purplish, smooth, crowned by the 
indistinct calyx-limb. 
Has.—Very rare along choungs in the tropical forests towards the Kambala_ 
ae Pegu Yomah; also Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. May; Fr. Feb—s.—SS.= 
1d. 
23. I. Brandisiana, Kz.—An evergreen shrub, all parts glab- 
rous ; stipules from a broad base subulate-acuminate ; leaves oblong- 
ovate to oblong, on a very short thick petiole or almost sessile 
with a rounded base, acuminate, 4-6 in. long, entire, thin-coriaceous, 
glabrous, turning black in drying; flowers very long, white (?), 
very shortly pedicelled, forming a small, trichotomous, minutely 
puberulous and very short peduncled slender cyme at the end 
of the branchlets ; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate, the upper 
ones narrower and smaller; calyx a line long, glabrous, the lobes 
