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bracts about a line long, lanceolate, acute, quite glabrous ; bractlets 
almost conform, but minute ; calyx smooth, the lobes ovate, blunt, 
about % lin. long; corolla rotate, the lobes ovate-oblong, blunt, 
about 1} lin. long; stamens numerous, unequal, inserted at the 
base of the very short tube ; berries ovoid-oblong, terete, smooth, 4 
lin. long, crowned by the rather conspicuous calyx-limb. 
4. §. sulcata, Kz.—An evergreen small often stunted tree, 
15-25 ft. high, the young shoots covered with a rusty-coloured or 
tawny appressed pubescence ; leaves lanceolate to elliptically lanceo- 
late, acute at the base, on a strong petiole 3-4 lin. long, acuminate, 
more or less crenate-serrulate or entire, thick chartaceous, 5-7 in. 
long, more or less glossy above, and when old also beneath, glabrous, 
the nerves strong, the net-veination conspicuous and not very lax ; 
flowers small, yellow, almost sessile, in short, simple, rusty-tomentose 
axillary racemes ; bracts and bractlets almost equal, obovate-lanceo- 
late, acute, appressed-pubescent, nearly a line long ; calyx densely 
appressed-pubescent, the lobes about a line long, ovate-lanceolate, 
rather blunt; petals 2 lin. long, ovate-oblong, blunt; stamens 
humerous, unequal, inserted at the base ; drupes elliptically oblong, 
on $ lin. long tomentose peduncles, about 4-5 lin. long, suleate, 
almost glabrous, when fully ripe bluish black, crowned by the 
calyx-limb, containing a sulcate, hard, bony, 3-celled nut ; embryo 
straight. 
van J. glabrior: leaves more coriaceous, quite glabrous, shining 
above ; drupes larger and glabrous. 
Var. 2, pubescens: leaves narrower and longer acuminate, less 
glossy or iGewet opaque, pubescent on the-midrib beneath; the 
young shoots rusty villous-tomentose ; drupes (unripe) pubescent. 
HaB.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban, at 3,000 to 6,000 ft. 
oe 7 Be 2: Upper Tenasserim, at 4,000 ft. elevation..—Fr. March.—L— 
ie 7. 
* * Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled ; drupes ovoid, contracted at the 
apex, or turbinate, usually 1-seeded ; embryo curved. 
faint ; flowers white, sessile, rather small, forming shorter 
or longer robust, densely tawny- or rusty-villous tomentose, branched 
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