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unequal at the base, on a somewhat pubescent, petiole 2-3 lin. long, 
2-4 in. long, blunt or bluntish, entire, chartaceous, with a tuft of 
hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath ; flowers conspicuous, white, 
turning yellow, on 3-4 lin. long often somewhat mealy pedicels, 
arising solitary from the forkings of the last branchings or at the 
end of the branchlets ; calyx about 4 lin. long or longer, glabrous 
or nearly so, the tube spindle-shaped ; limb as long or longer than 
the tube, deeply 5-cleft, the teeth linear-lanceolate; corolla glab- 
rous, the tube 1-14 in. long, the 5 lobes half so long, broadly rhom- 
boid-obovate ; berries oblong, the size of a pigeon’s egg, on a 8-4 
lin. long stalk, glabrous, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Hazs.—Chittagong. 
9. G. coronaria, Ham.—Yeng-khat.—A tree (25—30+10— 
154-2—3), leafless during H.S., the young shoots minutely puber- 
ulous and covered with a sticky resin; stipules connate, shortly 
puberulous ; leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, tapering in a very short 
somewhat puberulous petiole, 4-10 in. long, shortly and abruptly 
acuminate or apiculate, entire or nearly so, chartaceous, a little scab- 
rous beneath ; flowers showy, white, turning yellow, on thick 4-5 
lin. long shortly puberulous sticky pedicels, arising solitary from the 
end of the branchlets or laterally from the base of the young shoots; 
calyx 4 to $ in. long, glabrous or puberulous and sticky, laterally 
cleft and somewhat spathaceous or 2-cleft or irregularly 5-toothed ; 
corolla-tube 13-2 in. long, the 5 or 6 lobes half as long, rhomboid- 
obovate; berries the size of a pullet’s egg, elliptically to obovoid- 
oblong, marked by 5-10 longitudinal more or less prominent angles 
_or lines, smooth, beaked and crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Haz.—Frequent in the mixed, especially the moister, forests, rare in the 
low forests, all over Burma from Chittagong, Pegu, and Martaban down to 
Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr. ; Fr. the following year.—l—SS.—=Metam. Arg. SiS., ete. 
ReMARKs.—Wood pale brown or white, rather heavy, of an unequal fibre, 
_ Yather brittle, very close-grained. W.—=O'=49 pd. Used for making combs 
and adapted for turning, but cracky. 
10. G. pulcherrima, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—35+10 
—15+4+3—4), all parts glabrous; stipules broadly tri , free 
or nearly so; leaves broadly to oblong-lanceolate and elliptically 
oblong, acute at the base, on a strong petiole 3-4 lin. long, 3-5 in. 
the branchlets or spuriously axillary by suppression of one of the 
% branchlets; calyx about 3-34 lin. long, tomentose, the ample 
limb 5-toothed, the teeth ovate, acuminate ; corolla glabrous, 1} in. 
