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shape, from ovate and oval-oblong to cordate and elliptically- 
oblong, on a densely puberulous, slender petiole 2-3 lin. long, 
cordate or rounded at the base, 1-3 in. long, blunt or more or less 
acute to acuminate, membranous, entire, especially beneath densely 
and shortly pubescent, the nerves impressed above; flowers small, 
yellowish, 4-merous, the males pedicelled and 3 or more, 
forming shorter or longer peduncled, recurved, slender, puberulous 
Var. 2, heterophylla (D. eterophylla, Wall.) : leaves very 
variable’ in shape and size, from oblong’ to obovate, usually quite 
artaby or very slightly puberulous and soon glabrous, glaucous 
veneath, 
H4p.—Var. 1: not unfrequent in the mixed and low forests of the Pe 
Yomah ; var. 2: frequent in the dry and Eng forests of Ava and — 
March-Apr.; Fr, Dec.-Feb.—l.—SS.=var. 1: SiS. Arg.; ¥ 
RemMarxks.—Wood pale brown, rather heavy, close-gtained, the heartwood 
small, blackish, takes fine polish.— H'=49 pd. 
l, 
D. Kurzii, Hiern.—An evergreen tree (5060+ 25—30+ 
4—6), the leaf-buds and very young shoots pubescent ; bark v 
thin, smooth, greyish; leaves’ ovate to elliptically oblong and 
ovate, on a very short, thin, puberulous petiole, 2-3 in. long, long 
but bluntish acuminate, entire, chartaceous, glossy, glabrous, the 
midrib beneath usually pubescent, the nerves thin; flowers small, 
white, on very short puberulous pedicels or almost sessile, the females 
only known, which form by 3 or 2 a very short peduncled, puberulous, 
small cyme in the axils of the leaves ; bracts small, linear, pubescent, 
lobes about a line long, broadly ovate, somewhat acute; coro’ 
wrinkled ; albumen homogeneous. 
