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Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban and Tenasserim, 
at 4,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation.—FI. Feb.-Aug.—].—SS8,—Metam. 
8. S. pedicellata, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 10—15 +3 
—4), the young shoots very slender and sparing] appressed. silk- 
hairy; bark about 2 lin. thick, brownish grey, ohaotetly fissured ; 
cut greenish; leaves elliptically lanceolate to lanceolate, tapering 
m a slender, glabrous petiole 4-5 lin. long, 4-5 in. long, almost 
terete and smooth, crowned by the calyx-limb, containing a per- 
gamaceous 1-seeded nut; calyx-lobes in fruit broadly ovate, blunt, 
about $ lin. long, glabrous. © 
Hap.—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Martaban, east of Tounghoo.— 
Fr. Apr.—s.—S8.—Metam. 
_ ReMarxs.— Wood very pale brown, rather light, close-grained, soft. 
9. S. caudata, Wall.—An evergreen tree, all parts glabrous or * 
nearly so; leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, on a 3-4 lin. long 
HaB.—Upper Tenasserim ; Chittagong.—Fr. Apr. 
10. S. crate cides, D. Don.; Brand. For. Fl. 299.— An 
evergreen (?) small stunted tree, the oung shoots more or less 
‘Ppressed-pubescent ; leaves obovate-ob ong to oblong, on a 2-3 
lin. long, thin, sparingly hairy petiole, obtuse at the base, 1-24 in. 
long, shortly acuminate or acute, rather sharply serrulate, charta- 
“ous, glabrous (or the midrib beneath pubescent), turning yellowish 
in drying, rather opaque, the nerves and the lax veination in adult 
