72 RUBIACER. [ Hymenodictyon. 
Ovary 2-celled, the cells with numerous ascending ovules imbri- 
cately attached to the linear placentas ; style simple, long-exserted ; 
stigma clavate-capitate or almost lobed. Capsule almost woody, 2- 
celled, opening loculicidally in 2 valves. Seeds numerous, com- 
pressed, surrounded by a membranous net-veined wing 2-cleft at the 
base. Albumen fleshy.—Trees, with glandular, serrate, deciduous, 
interpetiolar stipules. Flowers small, clustered, forming raceme- 
we thyrsoid panicles supported by more or less discoloured floral 
ves. 
iflorum, Wall.—Kkoosan.—A tree (50—60 + 25—30 
during H.S., all softer parts velvety-pubescent; bark 
clusters, forming raceme-like shortly pubescent panicles supported 
by a whitish long-petioled floral leaf and arranged into a loose 
seeds 4 an 
2-cleft at the base, 
Has.—Common in the mixed dry forests of the Prome dj rict rare i 
. : t rather in 
the upper mixed forests of the P gu Yomah: alee: hit ask ee ee Fr. 
C8.—L—-$8.—Cas. Sis, Omahs also Chittagong —Fl. Au Bee 
REMARKS.—Wood light, loose-grained, bike. ge 
Used for black-boards in Burmese schools, and for abeeme te ote pd. 
HYMENOPOGON, Wall. 
Calyx-tube obovate, the limb 5-parted i 
5 2 » persistent. Corolla 
salver-shaped with a very long tube, the limb Sauce. Stameni 
5, included in the inflated summit of the tube Ov celled, 
é 2 wned b the alyx-li - i 
the apex in 2 valves, the Valves Seer —— = ae is 
C Ds, with crowded leaves and larce mem- 
branous Interpetiolar stipules. Flowers conspicuous, in nian 
ek 
= ae corymbs furnished with large discoloured floral 
