Cratoxylon. ] HYPERICINES. 85 
glabrous ; bark dark brown, corky lamellate, about 2 lin. thick; 
cut yellowish ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 34 in. long, 
acute or rounded at base, on a very short petiole, more or less acu- 
minate, membranous, glabrous, glaucescent beneath ; flowers small, 
pink, on very short pedicels, usually by 3 (arely solitary) in axillary 
cymes on a slender about } in. long glabrous peduncle ; sepals 
elliptical, blunt, coriaceous, glabrous ; petals rounded ; hypogynous 
glands present or wanting ; staminal bundles flat, the filaments free 
from above their middle and fringing ; capsules oblong, acute, 
longer than the calyx. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the hill, Eng, and drier upper mixed forests, from 
Martaban and Tenasserim down to the Andamans.—Fl. March-Apr. ; Fr. C. 8.— 
1—SS. = Lat., Metam., SiS. 
KS. ood rather heavy, brown or pale brown, with darker-coloured 
heartwood, fibrous, but close-grained ; takes fine polish. 
ypogyn 
glands as long as the ovary, fleshy, club-shaped, blunt ; capsules a 
little longer than the sepals, ovate. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier, upper mixed and dry forests, less so in the 
lower mixed ones, all over Burma from Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasse- 
rim.—Fr. Jan.-Febr.—l.—SS. = a Ca .» SiS., Metam. 
RemMarks.—Wood rather heavy, brown, close-grained, rather soft. Used 
for pating purposes, ploughs, handles of chisels, hammers and other 
utensils, 
5. C. arborescens, Bl. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 258,—An evergreen large 
shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at base, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole, apiculate or shortly and 
bluntish acuminate, 2-3 in, long, coriaceous, glabrous, pale beneath; 
flowers small, scarlet, on a line long pedicels racemulose, forming 
quite glabrous panicles in the axils of the upper leaves and at the 
end of the branches ; sepals glabrous, about 3 lin. long, concave- 
oval, blunt; petals somewhat longer, rounded, gland-dotted ; cap- 
sules ovate, acute, somewhat longer than the sepals. 
_ _Has.—Tenasserim. 
