140 EBENACEZ. [ Maba. 
prominent, the net-veination rather lax; flowers small, very shortly 
pedicelled, 3-merous, white, the males usually by 2 or 3 and form- 
ing a very short peduncled, poor, puberulous cyme, the females 
yellow, solitary and almost sessile in the axils of the leaves; calyx 
minutely pubescent, about a lime long, the lobes short, acute; 
corolla appressed tawny-pubescent outside, 3-cleft, the tube short, 
the lobes acute ; stamens in females none, in the males 6; filaments 
much longer than the oblong anthers ; ovary in males rudimentary, 
in the females 3-celled, with a short 3-toothed style; berry glo- 
bular, the size of a large pea, smooth, yellow, edible, 1-3-seeded. 
Has.— Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb.-March. 
Has.—Frequent in the moister upper mixed forests of the Andamans.— 
Fr. Apr.—s.—S8.=SiS. 
STYRACEM. 
