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abounding in milky juice, with entire coriaceous leaves. Flowers 
small or middling-sized, pedicelled, in poor axillary clusters or 
solitary. 
Leaves rounded or retuse at apex; flowers solitary, small; berries 
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large, depressed-globula i ¢ ‘ : : z . WM, littoralis. 
Leaves bluntish acuminate or apiculate; flowers clustered, conspi- 
cuous ; anthers very acuminate ; berries ova sc ws A eg 
1. M. littoralis, Kz. (WM. Indica, Kurz And. Rep.; Brand. 
For. Fl. 292).—Kap-pa-lee.—An evergreen tree (50—80 + 80—60 
+12—15), all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets very thick and 
seared ; bark thin, rather smooth, blackish brown; leaves crowded, 
obovate to obovate-oblong, on a slender petiole $-1 in. long, more — 
or less acute at the base, thin-coriaceous, 23-4 in, long, blunt and 
usually retuse, glabrous, glossy above, the lateral nerves crowded, 
thin, the net-veination minute; flowers small, on 4 to $ (in fruit 
nearly 14) in. long, robust, almost glabrous pedicels, solitary, 
axillary ; calyx about 2 lin. long, 6- (and also 8- ?) -lobed, the lobes 
ovate, rather blunt ; corolla-lobes 3 times as many as calyx-lobes, 
the outer series consisting of 12 linear-lanceolate lobes, the inner of 
6 erect, shorter, narrower, at the base tapering segments opposite and 
almost adnate to the base of the filaments; stamens twice as man 
as calyx-lobes, glabrous, alternating with as many scale-like minute- 
toothed scales ; anthers acuminate ; ovary tawny-pubescent ; berries 
depressed-globular, about 1-14 in. across, smooth, usually 5- or 6- 
celled and -seeded, the seeds compressed-oblong, about } an in. long, 
with a conspicuous oblique almost basal hilum. 
HaB.—Common in the tropical forests along the coast of the Andamans; 
also in Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. June-July ; Fr. 0.8.—s.—SS.=Si8, 
RemarKs,—Wood reddish or pinkish brown, the sapwood lighter-coloured 
rather narrow-streaked, very close-grained, very hard and durable, heavy. The 
so-called Andaman bullet-wood, used especially for gun-stocks, etc, 
2. M. Elengi, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 40; Brand. For. Fl. 
293.—Khayah.—An evergreen tree (40—50+15—30+4+4—7), the 
young shoots minutely and indistinctly greyish- or tawny-puberous ; 
bark rather coarse, brittle, longitudinally and deeply eracked, with 
transverse fissures, brown ; leaves alternate or nearly so, on a slender 
petiole 1-4 in. long, elliptically oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-4 in. long, 
tuntish acuminate, thin coriaceous, glabrous, above glossy with a 
metallic lustre, the lateral nerves thin and parallel, the net-veination 
between lax 3 flowers conspicuous, white, very fragrant, on 4-6 ln. 
long tawny-velvety pedicels, by 2-8 clustered or occasionally soli- 
, axillary ; calyx 8- (occasionally 6-) parted, the lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate, the outer ones tawny- the inner whitish-velvety ; corolla- 
lobes 3 times as many as sepals, the outer series consisting of 16 
(occasionally 12) linear spreading segments, the inner of 8 (oceasion- 
