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1-13 ft. long, the valves flat; seeds elongate-winged, nearly 2 
in. broad. 
Has.—Rather rare in the open and the drier upper mixed forests of the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban, as far down as Rangoon; also Ava.—Fl. Jan.- 
March; Fr. May-June.—l.—SS.—Metam. SiS (?) Lat. 
REmarxs.— Wood pale brown, heavy, fibrous, close-grained. Used for bows 
and spear-handles, also for paddles and oars. 
3. Sp. velutina, Kz.—A tree apparently of the appearance of 
the preceding species, the young shoots shortly tawny-pubescent ; 
leaves unpaired-pinnate, 1-14 ft. long, the petiole glabrous, striate, 
with 1 or 2 diminutive stipule-like deciduous leaflets towards the 
base ; leaflets in 4 pairs with a long-petioled odd one, sessile or 
nearly so, unequal at the base, oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 in. 1 
acuminate, serrulate, membranous, quite glabrous ; inflorescence 
unknown ; calyx spathaceous with a recurved point, about 1} in. 
long, tawny velvety outside ; corolla about 3 in. long, _campanu- 
late-funnel-shaped, glabrous, constricted into a tube an inch long ; 
filaments inserted above the constriction, glabrous. 
Has.—Ava; Pegu.—Fl.-Sept. 
HETEROPHRAGMA, DC. 
ample tube, the lobes unequal or nearly so. Fertile stamens 4, 
didynamous, with a fifth rudimentary one; anther-cells divaricate. 
Disk entire, annular. Ovary 2-celled, the cells with numerous 
ovules in several rows along each side of the dissepiment ; style 
filiform, the stigma 2-cleft. Capsule oblong to linear, the valves 
Corolla funnel-shaped, yellow; pods rather flat, without ribs, vil- 
loastotector si’ é 2 a : ° ‘ : : . Ht. sulfurea. 
Tolia _campanulate-funnel-shaped, dull-brown; pods rather 
cylindrical, ribbed, scurfy-tomentose . . : . H. adenophylia. 
