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Has.—Frequent in the tidal forests all along the sea-shore from Chittagong 
ore to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. May.—l.—SS. = 
Remarxks.—Wood brown, rather light and loose-grained. 
2. H. minor, Lam. (H. fomes, Buch.; H.f. Ind. Fi. i. 363).— 
Penglai-kana-so.— An evergreen tree, 30—40 ft. high by 4—5 ft. 
girth, all the softer parts silvery scaly ; leaves broadly or almost obo- 
vate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, on a thick silvery scaly petiole 
3-1 in. long, usually narrowed towards the acute or obtuse base, 4-6 
in. long, acute or blunt, rarely rounded, coriaceous, beneath densely 
silvery lepidote with an admixture of numerous minute rusty-colour- 
ed scales; flowers dull orange-coloured, on slender pedicels, forming 
rusty-tomentose panicles ; carpels sessile, obliquely depressed-obo- 
void, fibrous-woody with a thin fragile brown smooth epicarp fur- 
rowed inside, the keel winged along the outer edge. 
Has.—Frequent in the tidal forests all along the Burmese shores from 
; Chittagong down to Tenasserim, ascending the rivers as far as the tidal waves.— 
| Fl. Febr.-June ; Fr. R. S—SS. = Sal. 
. _ Remarxs.—Wood brown, strong, tough anddurable. W = o'—66; break- 
ing weight — 1,132 pd. Used for boats, piles of bridges, house-posts, rafters, &c. 
Se ee ee 
woody, almost obliquely oval, glaucous green, roughish from grey- 
co ustules, the keel on the inner side 
conspicuous, on the outside obsolete, produced in a rather long cori- 
aceous wing-like appendage. 
-Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
