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lets; bracts linear, stellate-tomentose ; calyx about a line long, 
5-toothed, mealy-tomentose ; corolla pilose at the throat, otherwise 
labrous ; drupes obovoid, about 2 lin. long, smooth, the putamen 
obsoletely tubercled. 
Has.—Frequent all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down to Tenasserim, 
in the dry and upper mixed forests up to 2,000 ft. elevation —Fl. R.S.—l.— 
SS.—=CaS. SiS. Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood yellowish, hard, close-grained, rather heavy and strong, 
the annual rings obsolete. Used for weaving shuttles and recommended as good 
for fancy work. 
2. P, viburnoides, Wall.—A leaf-shedding tree (80—40 + 10— 
15+3—4), all softer parts velvety-tomentose ; leaves elliptical to 
ovate, on a shortly pubescent petiole ¢-3 in. long, tapering at the 
3 in. long, entire or coarsely serrate-toothed to obsoletely serrate, 
Hap.—Frequent in the mixed dry forests of the Prome district and Ava.— 
Fl. March.—1.—SS.=Ca8. 
8. P, sambucina, Wall.—An evergreen tree (20—30+6—15 
+2—3), the young shoots pubescent or almost villous ; leaves ovate 
to broadly ovate, on a pubescent petiole 3-5 lin. long, entire or re- 
pand-toothed towards the apex, epiculate or very shortly acuminate, 
2-3 in. long, on both sides on the nerves pubescent, otherwise 
glabrous, rigidly membranous; flowers small, greenish white, on 
very short pedicels, forming a rather small, divaricate, short-pedun- 
cled, pubescent corymb at the end of the branchlets ; bracts small, 
Has.—In moister upper mixed forests of Arracan ; also Upper Tenasserim.— 
Fl. Oct.—s+1.—SS.=Sis. 
Roxb.—A shrub with a short stem, all parts 
narro 
glabrous ; leaves elliptical to elliptically oblong and often wed 
