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vety ; corolla smooth, in bud about 3 lin. long, with an oval tube, 
the lobes rounded, blunt or notched ; stamens about 40, united by 
pairs ; filaments very short ; anthers elongate-linear, acute; females: 
calyx deeply 4-lobed, nearly 4 in. long, the lobes broadly ovate, 
acute ; corolla almost bell-shaped, nearly an inch in diameter, the 
tube very short; staminodes 4 or fewer, inserted at the base of the 
corolla-tube ; ovary globular, 8-celled, with 4 spreading generally 3- 
cleft styles; berries globular, about the size of a small apple, pulpy 
within, yellow when ripe and covered with a rusty-coloured mealy 
substance, up to 8-seeded, surrounded at the base by the large 4- 
leafed calyx ; albumen homogeneous. 
Has.—Martaban and Tenasserim, apparently not unfrequent.—Fl. Aug.; 
Fr. Feb.-Apr. 
3. D. chartacea, Wall.—An evergreen, small, shrubby tree, the 
trunk as thick as a man’s thigh, all parts quite glabrous ; bark about 
2 lin. thick, blackish, roughish; cut pale-coloured ; leaves ovate- 
oblong to oblong and oblong-lanceolate, on a 1-2 lin. long petiole, 
4-5 in. long, bluntish acuminate or somewhat acute, entire, charta- 
ceous and thin, glabrous, shining above; flowers small, cream- 
coloured, 4-merous, glabrous, sessile, forming short, rather dense, 
minutely puberulous racemes or-clusters in the axils of the leaves or 
above the scars of the fallen ones, the females unknown ; bracts 
ovate, acute, more or less minutely ciliate ; calyx shortly bell-shaped, 
whitish, the lobes oblong and blunt, about a line long ; corolla-tube 
wide and a little longer than the calyx, the lobes ovate, blunt, 
somewhat shorter than the tube; stamens in males 16-20, by pairs; 
anthers linear-oblong, acute, pubescent, whitish ; the filaments short, 
the inner ones still shorter ; ovary-rudiment glabrous. : 
Has.—Not uncommon in the tropical forests of Martaban and Upper 
Tenasserim.—Fl.-March-Apr.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
Remarxs.—Sapwood whitish, rather heavy, fibrous and tough, soon attacked 
by xylophages, 
4. D. ehretioides, Wall.—Ouk-cheng-za.—A tree (60—70 425 
~—40 + 5—6), leafless during H.S., all parts glabrous; bark about 3 
in. thick, dark grey, corky and fissured ; cut reddish ; leaves elliptical 
. “ee on a 4-4 in. long petiole, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
-6 in. lon. 4 
females rose-coloured, larger, solitary, on 3-4 lin. long, puberulous, 
minutely 2-bracted peduncles along the axillary young leafless 
shoots, and hence appearing as if racemose; calyx sparingly and 
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