be MENISPERMACEX. [ Pachygone. 
Has.—Not a in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim. 
ReMARES. o Wood rather heavy, but porose, grey, with broad annual rings. 
PACHYGONE, Miers. 
Sepals 6, the inner ones os Petals as many, embracing 
the stamens. Males: stamens 6, free; anthers nearly globular, 
2-celled. Females: staminodes 6. "Carpels 3, with horizontal styles. 
Drupes mee Shaped. the style-scar nearly basal. Putamen con- 
form, wrinkled. Seed horse-shoe-shaped. Albumen none. Cotyle- 
dons veny thick, salf-oylindsie, —Woody climbers, with racemose 
flowers 
Inforesonee — drupes densely tomentose; nervation of leaves 
‘ . . PB. dasycarpa. 
Caereasuase ge leaves almost polished . % - . PB. odorifera, 
12P, rey gece Kz.—An evergreen scandent shrub, the 
branchlets young parts tomentose ; leaves oval, 13-2 in. ‘long, 
on a shortly tomentose slender petiole $-1 in. long, bluntish or 
rarely retuse, minutely mucronate, coriaceous, quste glabrous, glossy, 
the elegant nervation and netveination prominent; racemes an 
pedicels (in fruit) stout, yellowish ee drupes obliquely 
oboval, densely yellowish or greyish tomentose, the size of a large pea. 
Has.—Tenasserim, Moulmein District; also adjoining Siamese province of 
Kanbooree.—Fr. -May.—Ca. 
2. P. odorifera, Miers.—Nya-phyoo.—An evergreen powerful 
woody climber, the young shoots sparingly appressed tawny pubes- 
cent, the branchlets terete, glabrous, pendulous ; leaves oblong, on 
scented, on rather long ie orming a puberulous slender 
raceme of about the length of the leaves petals and sepals pebonts ‘ 
drupes the size of a large pea, t 5 lin. long, sore * 
kidney-shaped, compressed, “is igerinetn es putam: 
__Has.—Common in the swamp forests of the alluvial plai ’ 
and Martaban; also Tenasserim aese os iiiacgioan soda) -SB: of Pro ei P faa 
PYCNARRHENA, Miers. 
Flowers dioecious. Males: sepals 6, with 3 etme the inner 
ones larger and orbicular ; petals 6, small, lobed. Stamens 9, the 
filaments very short ; anthers bursting transversely. ane flowers 
— broad! y oblong, with the scar of the style — 
he endocarp almost Siingy aheced. Albumen none. Cotyled 
