Payena.| MYRSINEE. 121 
a solitary ascending ovule in each cell ; style long-exserted with an 
obsoletely toothed apex. Berry usually 1- or 2-seeded, the seeds 
large, somewhat compressed, albuminous. Cotyledons oblong. 
Calyx 6-parted; corolla 12-lobed, 
Filaments very short, villous ; anthers glabrous, mucronate-acu- 
minate . ss . . see ret . -  « PB. Griffithii. 
* * Calyx 4-parted ; corolla 8-lobed ; anthers glabrous. 
Connective produced in a broad blunt beak 3 sepals blunt or nearly 
80; nerves somewhat irregular; petioles about 3-3 in. 
long : ‘ gees A : : ; ; - P. lucida. 
Connective terminating into a bristle ; sepals acute ; nerves thin, 
lel; petioles about an inch long, slender ; 3 . P. paralleloneura. 
Haz.—Burma (?) ; probably Tenasserim (?). 
2. P. paralleloneura, Kz.—An evergreen tree (70—80+40— 
50+5—7), the young branchlets minutely rusty-puberous; bark 
grey ; leaves elliptical or elliptically lanceolate, on a slender, minutely 
puberulous glabrescent petiole about an inch long, shortly acu- 
minate, 3-4 in. long, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, the lateral nerves 
thin and very regularly parallel; flowers middling-sized, white, on 
about an inch long minutely tawny-puberous pedicels, by 8 to 7, 
forming lax clusters of about the length of the petiole in the axils 
of the leaves ; calyx minutely tawny-puberulous, 4-parted, the sepals 
broadly ovate, acute, about 3 lin. long ; corolla quite glabrous, the 
lobes elliptically oblong, blunt ; stamens 16, the anthers glabrous, 
bristly mucronate ; ovary tawny-pubescent ; berries ovoid, the size 
of a plum, apiculate, glabrous, 1- or rarely 2-seeded. 
HaB.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim.—Fl. 
March ; “agro Boal : gb pe eet 
BASSIA, Koen. 
Calyx 4. or 5-parted, the lobes imbricate in 2 rows. Corolla 
