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Remarxs.—Wood rather light and coarse, loose-grained, brown, nebulous, 
a '=57 Bis Wood valued. equal to that “a Jing, excellent for tool-handles and 
o for canoes, &e.— es white r 
B—The Sal-tree, Store wiile: ‘Gaerta: (Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
26, t. a3 Brand. For. Fl. 26, t. 9), is said to grow in Ava, but I 
have seen no a abit it. 
2. S, Helferi . (Fatiea Helferi, Dyer ; HA. Ind. Fi. 
302).—A_ tree; _. oblong or elliptically oblong, 4-6 in. — 
cordate at base, on a thick 3-4 lin. long petiole, coriaceous, blunt, 
glabrous above, beneath minutely silvery-puberulous, the lateral 
nerves numerous and prominent ; peaches in bud whitish-tomentose, 
sessile, racemose, forming white or greyish-tomentose 2-5 in. long 
panicles in the axils of the acd or lamas terminal] ; rest unknown. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
S. nervosa, Kz., is another Tenasserim species, of which the 
hoger and fruits are still unknown. It differs from Sf. leprosula 
in having the upper side of the leaves not scabrous and generally in 
the indumentum and nervation. It yields a clear yellowish resin of 
the qualities and smell of colphony. 
3. Sh. floribunda, Kz. ;°H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 304.—A leaf-shedding 
tree, all parts glabrous ; young leaves oblong to elliptical, rounded 
at base, on a slender petiole 4-3 in. long, | acute, sie in. long, 
e 
quite ore slender panicles in the axils of the sien leaves ; 
quite glabrous, the 2 inner lobes a little shorter ; petals nearly 
$ in. long, Settee (?) lanceolate, slightly F onnoat outside ; sta- 
mens only about 15, the connee a reflexed bristle 
as long as the anther’ itself. 
Haxs.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Decb. 
PENTACME, DC. 
Calyx imbricate, the tube very short. Petals infracted ne 
their middle, and. closely twisted round the sexual organs so 
form a closed hemispherical corolla perforated only at the ge 
Stamens 15; anthers 4-celled, the cells almost equal, saccate at 
ive also terminated 
by aia ies bristle. ‘Ovary free ; style filiform. Nut enclosed in 
enki. Kz. (Shor. ea Siamensis, Mia. ; ; H+. Ind. Fi... - 
soa Pia rg seo (60—90+40—-50+ 5-6), leafless during ae 
HS., the leaf-buds and sometimes the young leaves beneath covered = 
