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2. M. ramentacea, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (25—30 + (?)+ 
i—1}), all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets smooth ; bark about 
lin. long petiole, rounded or obtuse at the base, 4-7 in. long, acu- 
1 i eous, smooth, glossy above; flowers 
der } to nearly a line long pedicels, 
leaves; bracts small, subulate, rusty-coloured ; calyx $a line long, 
glabrous, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, somewhat acute ; 
bractlets almost conform with the calyx-lobes, but smaller; corolla 
ge 
mustard-seed, white, smooth, succulent, containing a single, pretty 
hard, but thin, several-seeded nut. 
H48.—Common in the moister, upper mixed, and the moist evergreen forests, 
allover Burma from Chittagong, Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim and 
the Andamans ; occurring also in poonzohs, and here ofter. in great number.—Fl. 
Jan.; Fr. March-Apr.—s.—SS.—Lat. p- Metam. SiS., ete. 
REMaRKs.—Wood pale brown or brown, rather heavy, close-grained, brittle. 
3. M.Indica, DC.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 187, t. 18, £. 4; Brand. 
For. Fl. 288.—An evergreen small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, or large 
shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves from lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 
usually tapering at the one side into a 3-4 lin. long petiole, 3-6 in. 
long, acuminate, coarsely serrate, glabrous, the nerves beneath 
strong and prominent ; flowers minute, white, on }-1 lin. long 
pedicels, forming compound, rarely simple, slender, glabrous racemes 
in the axils of the leaves and above the scars of the fallen ones ; 
bracts and bractlets minute, linear-lanceolate, acute, shorter than 
the pedicel ; calyx about 4 lin. long, glabrous, the lobes broadly 
Ovate, acute; corolla almost rotate, with a short tube, the lobes 
rounded ; ovary half-superior; berries the size of a pepper-kernel, 
globular, dry and smooth, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb and 
Containing a single nut of numerous an seeds. 
P Haz.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 
egu Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim, up to 3,000 ft. elevation; also 
Chittagong.—F, March,—s.—SS.—Metam. SiS,, etc. 
4. M. paniculata, A. DC.—An evergreen shrub or climber (2), 
all parts Ben pislarci ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong, on a 
in. long petiole, rounded or obtuse at the base, 3-6 in. long, 
shortly acuminate, coarsely repand-toothed, thin pergamaceous, glab- 
Tous, the nerves beneath strong and prominent ; flowers white, small, 
on 1-2 lin, long pedicels, forming long, slender, glabrous, compound 
