154 TILIACEE. [ Pentace. 
usually 2 or 8, roundish oval, 1-1} in. in diameter, woody, 2-valved, 
ash-grey, minutely puberulous, 1- rarely 2-seeded. 
Has.—Tidal forests of Chittagong and Tenasserim.—l.—SS. =Sal. 
--B, —— Bth. ; H.f. Ind. Fi. i. Se —An — 
tree “95-884 —]0 +2—8), the younger parts rusty or coppery 
tepidote pana lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rounded or.obtuse 
at the base, on a lepidote petiole } in. long or longer, 3-7 in. long, 
acuminate, eye nestor glabrous above, greyish lepidote 
beneath, while @ rusty and metallic-scaly all over; flowers 
small, hardly 2 fin: rah on rather long lepidote pedicels, forming 
rather short, rusty or coppery lepidote narrow panicles in the axils 
of the upper leaves or collected into larger ones at the ends of the 
branchlets ; calyx densely lepidote, hardly 2 lin. long ; petals some- 
what longer, oblong, slightly narrowed at base; carpels almost 
onc rather flat on the iner ae, shortly greyish pubescent, 
about . in diameter. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tidal forests and mangrove-swamps of the 
enables « from Arracan down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr.-May.—l.—SS.—Sal. 
PENTACE, Hassk. 
Calyx bell-shaped, irregularly 3-5-cleft. Petals 5. Stamens 
numerous, inserted on the torus, free or in 5 bundles ; staminodes 5, 
and 1 . See » albuniinous: Tn rees, with waiters or slightly 
snicabe seni a iia small, cymose in terminal panicles. 
ie i nae oe Ind. Fl. i. 381.—Thit-ka or 
kathit-ka—An evergreen tree (100—120+ 70—75+5—12), the 
younger parts pubescent ; aves oblong or ovate-oblong, 4-6 in 
long, rounded or obtuse at the 3- or almost 5-nerved base, on @ 
giabrescent petiole 3-3 in. long, acuminate, entire or slightly sinu- 
ate-lobed, chartaceous, glabrous and glossy above, beneath pale and 
especially along the nerves gaint ; flowers small, on rather 
= pads the lobes lanceolate and rather regular, tomentose outside ; 
ae i. obovate-oblong, nes at the base, somewhat longer * 
the ealyx; stamens in 5 bundles of 4 to 7, the bundles alternating 
wit Be many eral long staminodes ; capsules 5-celled 
’ shortly tavny-pabeseent, the valves 
e rounded 
va longitdina 1-15 in 1 ong wing at 
