Pyrenaria. | TERNSTROEMIACER. 105 
lute, 4-5 in. long, on a rather thick densely pubescent ogee 2-3 
lin. long, blunt or nearly so, serrulate, coriaceous, while young 
on both sides, finally beneath only, densely and shortly caabaleis 
or pubescent, yellowish-green, drying yellowish ; flowers aa 
sized, on a very short thick pedicel, arising singly from the 
the leaves ; bracts longer than the sepals, “leaf. like, btoingi ities 
late, narrowed towards base, and sessile with a very broad imbricate 
base ; sepals similar to the bracts, but much smaller and gradually 
passing into the petals, the latter densely silky pubescent outside ; 
ovary densely silky-villous ; styles 5, free at apex, thick and_ short ; 
drupes obovate-oblong, the size of a small pear, obsoletely 4-5- 
— waxy-yellow, supported by the somewhat enlarged bracts and 
pals, 
ri unfrequent in drier and stunted hill-forests = Martaban, at 
6,000 to jaw ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. March.—s.—SS.—=Metam 
2. P. camellieflora, Kz.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 290.—An ever- 
green tree (25—304+8—15+4 93) , the young ‘tobias densely 
pubescent ; bark brown, longitudinally rimose ; cut greenish ; wood 
white ; leaves oblong or elliptically oblong, 4- 5 in . long, somewhat 
tapering at both ends, on a puberulous or glabrous petiole 
hardly 2 lin. long, blunt, pu gees thin coriaceous, drying 
yellowish, the midrib beneath more or less pubesvent ; flowers 
about . In diameter, white, with golden anthers, almost sessile 
and solitary: 3 in the axils of the leaves ; bracts small, like i sepals 
and petals silky pubescent outside; ovary silky pu ; drupes 
obovoid to oblong, waxy ye a ow, about an in. Gis, with 6 ne a 
protuberances bearing the 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill-forests of Martaban, at 3,000 to 5,000 ft. 
elevation, rarely descending lower down.—Fl, Mar ch-Apr: ; ; Fr. Apr.-May.— 
. P, serrata, Bl. (P. attenuata, Seem. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 290.) 
cis rather small evergreen tree, the: young shoots thinly silk-hairy ; 
leaves obovate-oblong or obovate lanceolate, 6-7 in. long, cuneate 
or tapering at the base, on a rather thick glabrous petiole 6-8 lin. 
long, shortly acuminate, irregularly serrate, entire towards the 
base, membranous, glabrous, liver-coloured when dried ; flowers 
middling-sized, on very short, thick, recurved, ee pedicels; 
and thinly puberulous; se 
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