Xanthophylium. | POLYGALER. 81 
s, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (50—60+4+20—30 + 4— 
5), all ant cape Fog leaves from oblong to oblong-lanceolate, on a 
2-3 lin. long petiole, bluntish acuminate, 4-6 in. long, thin coria- 
ceous, without glands at base, glabrous, slightly glaucescent beneath ; 
flowers rather small, yellowish and pinkish tipped, on a slightly 
puberulous or glabrous pedicels 4 to 2-lin. long, forming lax pedun- 
cled almost glabrous panicles arising far from above the leaf-axils 
and the upper ones collected into larger terminal panicles; sepals 
blunt, glabrous, or nearly so, the wings about 3 lin. long; ovary 
minutely pubescent, the style glabrous, slender with a broadly 
2-lobed stigma; ovules often 4; berries globular, the size of a 
pigeon’s eg’, olive-coloured, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Rare in the tropical forests of the Pegu Yomah; also Chittagong.— 
Fi. Vohe ca eae = SiS. 3 . SS ela? 
2. X. eglandulosum, Griff. (X. Grifithii, Hf. Ind. Fl. 1. 210).— 
An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous; leaves lanceolate to oblong- 
and ovate-lanceolate, acute at base, on a 3-5 lin. long petiole, blunt- 
ish acuminate, 4-6 in. long, thin coriaceous, glabrous, glaueescent 
and opaque beneath ; flowers rather small, on tawny puberulous 
pedicels a line long , forming peduneled | tawny velvety panicles in 
the axils of the leaves and at the end of the branches ; sepals bluntish, 
about 2 lin. long, greyish or tawny puberulous ; ovary pubescent. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
laucum, Wall.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 209.—Thit-kpyoo—An 
evergreen tree (50—60 + 20—30 +4—5), all parts glabrous; bark 4 
in. thick, grey, roughish ; cut brown; leaves oblong and oblong- 
lanceolate, acute at base, from blunt to bluntish acuminate, on a 1-2 
lin. long slender petiole, chartaceous, glabrous, yellowish-glaucous 
and opaque beneath; flowers small, pale rose, on about a lin. long 
tawny puberulous pedicels, forming iii or slightly branched 
densely puberulous racemes in the axils of the leaves and often 
collected into a panicle at the end of the branchlets ; sepals blunt, 
densely puberulous, wings about 24 lin. long ; ovary sessile, densely 
tawny tomentose, terminating in a slender pubescent style; unripe 
berries globular, puberulous, glabrescent, the size of a large pea. 
Has.—Common in the swamp forests and around inundated jungle-swamps 
of the alluvial laine 5 and base of hills of Pegu and Martaban ; also Tenasserim.— 
Fi. Fr —SS.—=AlL. 
Remarxs.—Wood light, but com — white and pinkish, sof 
Seabahty yi raivakle for sie nae 2 —W.= ; i w 30-38 155—17 79 pd. ane 
_ 4. X. flavescens, Roxb. ay es —An evergreen tree (40— 
50 +20—30 + 6—8), all parts pitied ; leaves oblong to oblong- 
late, 4-6 in. long, acute or obtuse and usually 2-glandular at 
base, on a rather short glabrous Sitka: shortly and bluntish acumi- Ze =e 
