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drupes the size of a small pea or pepper-kernel, sappy, smooth, red, 
containing two 2-celled pyrenes. 
Has.—Chittagong ; also hills of Ava.—Fl. May. 
RemarKs.— Wood tough, rather light, durable, greyish, streaked, fibrous, but 
¢lose-grained, takes fine polish. Used for handles. 
RHABDIA, Mart. 
Ca (very rarely 6-) parted, the lobes equal or nearly so, 
Corolla bell-shaped or rotate-bell-shaped, with a short tube, the 
crowded, small, alternate leaves. Flowers small, in poor-flowered 
1 cymes. 
Pressed-pubescent and glabrescent ; flowers reddish lilac, on very 
short pubescent pedicels, by 3 to 5 in poor, small, very short pedun- 
cled, appressed-pubescent eymes terminating the lateral branchlets ; 
calyx pubescent, the lobes subulate-lanceolate; corolla glabrous, 
the lobes ovate, blunt 3; drupes the size of a small pea, sappy an 
very glossy, crimson, containing four 1-seeded pyrenes. 
8.—Common all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Upper 
Has. 
Tenasserim, in sandy or rocky beds of streams.—Fl. Fr. C.S, and H.S.—I,— 
SS.=petrophilous, 
CONVOLVULACE. 
Flowers regular, Calyx of 5 sepals much imbricated in bud, 
tarely 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped, rarely 
Totate or salver-shaped, the limb 5-lobed or angular, folded or very 
‘arely imbricate in bud. Stamens 8, inserted in ‘the’ corolia-tube 
and ternating with the corolla-lobes, usually unequally long; 
e Sitixe-or' 2-oleft branches or styles. Fruit either a capsule opening 
mas many or twice as many valves as there are cells and leaving the 
