Nauclea.] RUBIACER. 67 
rounded at the base, on a slender pubescent petiole 2-10 lin, long, 
blunt or sometimes retuse, firmly membranous or sometimes thin- 
chartaceous, almost glabrous and glossy above, beneath minutely and 
thinly pubescent and parallel-nerved; flowers small, yellowish, sessile, 
in small dense heads of about } in, in diameter, on a 1-2 lin. long 
pubescent or tomentose peduncle or almost sessile, supported by a pair 
of small deciduous floral leaves and forming a leafy, dichotomous, a 
spurious panicle at the end of the branches ; bractlets angular-clavate, 
truncate, as long as the calyx; calyx pubescent, the truncate cup- 
shaped limb glabrous ; corolla glabrous ; capsules about a line long, 
glabrous, ovoid, sulcate, persistent on the small, globular, shortly 
hispid receptacle, crowned by the cup-shaped calyx; seeds ovate- 
acuminate, winged all round. 
Var. 1, parvifolia proper: bractlets only half as long as the 
calyx ; corolla-lobes about 4 the length of the tube; flower-heads 
more constantly solitary between 2 floral leaves, 
Var. 2, diversifolia (NV. diversifolia, Wall.) : bractlets as long 
as the calyx; corolla-lobes about } the length of the tube; floral 
leaves very deciduous, the flower-heads soon in dichotomous divari- 
cate panicles; leaves much larger (3-6 in. long), beneath more con- 
spicuously pubescent ; stipules pubescent, 
_ , Var. 8, microphylla : as former, but leaves small (only 1-2 
ae) » minutely and inconspicuously pubescent beneath ; stipules 
rous. é 
_HaB.—Common all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Tenas- 
Serim, in all mixed forests, especially the lower and savannah ones; var. 3: re- 
stricted to the savannah forests.—Fl. Sept.-Oct.; Fr. C.S.—1.—SS.=AU/. SiS. 
_ REMaRKs.—Wood light chestnut-coloured, close-grained, heavy, the annual 
ningsrather broad. O’=43; break-weight 170 pd.—Used for planking, but rots 
soon if exposed to wet ; seems also fit for cabinet-making. 
6. N. rotundifolia, Roxb.—Bengha or bingah.—A leaf-shedding 
tree (40—60 + 20—30+3—6), all softer parts shortly pubescent ; 
bark about a line thick, roughish from short longitudinal corky- 
blunt, entire, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous and somewhat wrinkled 
above, beneath shortly but softly pubescent ; flowers small, white, in 
small globular heads of about }-2 in. in diameter, like those of NV. 
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