104 TERNSTROEMIACER. [ Pyrenaria, 
Haz.—Rather frequent in the tropical and damp hill-forests of the Marta- 
ban hills, east of Stag aa at 2,000 to 6,000 ft. elevation ; also Chittagong.—Fl. 
SS.—=Metam. 
Remarxks.— Wood soft, white. 
4. S. tristyla, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 287.—A shrub or small tree, 
the bark grey, not spotted; leaves obovate or broadly oblong, 7-10 
in. long, on a 4-1} in. long petiole, acuminate, spiny-serrulate, glab- 
rous on both sides except the scale-like hairs on the nerves and mid- 
ri eath ; flowers white, about 4 in. across, on old wood in fasci- 
cles of about twice trichotomous cymes ; pedicels 2 in. long, scal 
and hairy ; sepals obovate, blunt ; stamens about 20 ; Styles 3, rarely 
5, distinct ; berries usually 3-lobed. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
5. S. macrotricha, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 287.—A small tree, 
all parts clothed with long stiff rusty-colotired or black spreading 
hairs ; leaves lanceolate, nearly a foot long or shorter, narrowed 
at both ends, on 4 rather short hirsute petiole, sharply acuminate, 
bristly serrate, chartaceous, glabrous above, beneath, especially along 
the nerves and veins, sprinkled with stiff hairs 3 flowers small, on 
long slender hirsute pedicels, forming short, but slender hirsute 
cymes axillary or above the scars of the fallen leaves ; bracts small, e: 
linear-lanceolate, glabrous ; sepals and ovary glabrous; styles 5, 
erect, united at base. 
Has.—Ava, especially in the Kakhyen hills.—Fl. Apr. 
PYRENARIA, BI. 
: Sepals usually 5, unequal, gradually passing from bracts to 
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Leaves drying yellowish, pubescent beneath , ‘ 7 ~ . P. diospyricarpa. 
%** Bracts smail, much shorter than, and almost conf 
with, the sepals. 4 
Leaves glabrous, drying yellowish; petioles hardly 2 lin. long; | 
fruits obovate, waxy-yellow . . : ot ee’ - P. camellieflora. 
Leaves glabrous, in a dried state liver-coloured; petioles 6-8 lin. 
long ; fruits globular or elliptical, green . i eee . P. serrata. 
Ty stunted, ail younger parts pubescent ; leaves oblon to ellipti- 
cally lanceolate, with the margins of the acute base usua 4 
