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or slightly pubescent petiole 4-3 in. long, blunt or obsoletely api- 
culate, 2-3 in. long, entire or nearly so, or rarely obscurely serrate, 
membranous, glabrous; flowers small, on very short puberous pedi- 
eels, forming a rather small peduncled puberulous corymb at the 
end of the branches ; calyx puberous, about } a line long, 2-lipped, 
with the one lip 2-toothed and the other entire; corolla-tube villous 
at the throat along the insertion of the stamens; drupes obovate, 
about a line long, smooth, the putamen tubercled. 
Has.—Frequent in the coast forests of the Andamans; also Tenasserim.— 
Fl, May-June,—s.—SS.=SiS. 
8. P. scandens, Roxb.—An evergreen (?) scandent shrub, all 
parts glabrous or the young shoots minutely puberulous ; leaves ellip- 
tical to ovate-oblong, rounded at the base, on a glabrous slender 
petiole 4-1 in. long, 3-4 in. long, shortly acuminate or almost api- 
culate, entire, rigidly membranous, glabrous ; flowers small, greenish 
or yellowish white, on very short puberulous pedicels, forming a short- 
peduncled, brachiate, puberulous cyme or corymb at the end of the 
branchlets ; calyx puberulous, hardly half a line long, explanate- 
cup-shaped, truncate or nearly so; corolla glabrous, the throat 
bearded; drupes obovoid, about 2 lin. long, smooth, bluish black, 
the putamen longitudinally striate and slightly tubercled. 
Hax.—In the tropical forests of Martaban, east of Tounghoo.—Fr. March- 
Apr.—SS.=Metam. 
ih HaB.—Tropical forests of the Andaman Islands; also Upper Tenasserim.— 
- May.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
10. P, racemosa, Wall.—An evergreen tree (25—30+ (?)+ 
2—3), the young shoots puberulous or pubescent ; leaves elliptically 
late ‘to elliptical and ovate-lanceolate, acute at the base, 
on a 4-10 lin. long petiole, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, entire or 
slightly serrate towards the apex, thick-membranous, glabrous; 
flowers small, greenish white, on short puberulous s, clus- 
tered, forming a more or less interrupted, short-peduncled, pubescent 
spike-like panicle at the end of the branchlets; calyx puberulous, 
