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branchlets, all parts glabrous; bark blackish grey or dark brown, 
rough, irregularly peeling off in little irregular flakes; leaves 
obovate-oblong to oblong, tapering in a 4-3 in. long petiole, more 
or less blunt, 3-6 in. long, entire, firmly membranous, quite glab- 
of an agreeable scent like pears, but leathery-fleshy and insipid, 
the peduncled ones similar, but about half the size. 
Has.—Common in the savannah forests and in low places inundated duri 
rains, as well in the savannahs as in the lower mix orests, all over Burma 
= Ava and Martaban down to Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr.-June ; Fr. C.S.— 
—SS.=All. 
Var. 1, longispina proper: all parts, also the calyx, glabrous; 
fruits glabrous. 
Var. 2, hirsuta: all softer parts thinly hirsute; berries very 
sparingly and shortly hirsute. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Pegu and Martaban.—Fl. Apr.; 
Fr. May-July.—s.—SS.—=Metam. SiS. All. 
3. R. nutans, DC.—An evergreen small shrubby tree, all softer 
parts more or less shortly pubescent, the branches elongate and 
