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tomentose, forming simple, more or less tomentose short racemes 
above the axils of the fallen leaves ; petals velvety outside ; fruiting 
calyx-tube and wings sprinkled with minute — hairs, more 
or less glabrescent, the wings like those of D. 
AB.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern were of the ‘Pegu- ‘nd 
Arracan Yomah, and — Martaban down ie Tenasserim ; also Chittago 
Fl. Apr.; Fr. May.—s : 1—SS. = Metam 
Remarks.—Wood heavy, rather ae naa: the sapwood pale-brown, 
narrow, the heart-wood darker brown, takes a oo polish. Used for house-build- 
ing, canoes, house-posts, planking, ete. O' pd.— Yields wood-oil 
5. -D. Adare Tee ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 295.—A tree (70 
—80) + 40—50 + 8—10), shedding leaves in HS., the young 
shoots densely hirsute from long, stiff, pale tawny hairs ;_ bark 
ash-grey, ae 2 in. thick, brittle, longitudinally eracked and 
rough ; cut dry, brown; stipules from 4-5 in. long, hirsute or 
pubescent ; leaves ovate to Grate Sblong: rounded or obtuse at base, 
8-10 in. long, on a very hirsute (or rarely velvety) petiole 1-1} im. 
long, blunt, slightly repand, coriaceous, on both surfaces shortly 
tomentose or arg nt, somewhat elabrescent above, the nerves 
ee ciliate, folded a eeee 7% and hardly 4 in. “Tongs nut 
densely tawny pubescent. 
Has.—Common in the hill Eng forests of Martaban and in the Eng forests 
- of the Prome District, up to 2,000 ft. elevation—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. Apr.- 
—].—SS. = Lat. Aren 
RemarxKs.— Wood pia of the quality of that of Eng. 
Roxb.; H.f., Ind. Fl. i. 296.—An ah Pa 
ona u2 lon brashy-hirsute petiole shortly preieceee 
PS tek 
coriaceous, : 
pay h all on pubescent from short, tawny, stellate and simple 
hairs ; flowers showy, rose-coloured, forming simple, ce a 
racemes covered with brush-like fascicled, stiff hairs ; calyx tawny 
- tomentose from stellate hairs; petals oblong, blunt, sprinkled. out- 
side with stellate hairs ; fruiting aes oval, about an in. in 
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