272 VERBENACEE. [ Viter. 
winged pubescent or villous petiole 2-3 in. long; leaflets obovate 
to elliptically ovate and broadly lanceolate, sessile or nearly so, 
acuminate at both ends, 3-4 in. long, entire, firmly membranous, 
minutely puberulous and sometimes somewhat. scabrous above, 
shortly and softly tawny-pubescent beneath; flowers small, sessile 
or nearly so, in small, much bracted, compact cymes arranged in 
more or less interrupted spikes, forming a compound shortly tawny- 
tomentose panicle at the end of the branchlets; bracts conspicuous, 
more or less lanceolate, leafy, shortly velvety-pubescent, the bractlets 
smaller ; calyx velvety-tomentose, about 1-14 lin. long, 5-toothed ; 
corolla velvety-tomentose outside, hardly twice as lon the 
calyx ; drupes globular, the size of a small pea, bluish black, crowned 
by fulvous hairs, surrounded by the hemispherical ample pubescent 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the Eng and dry forests of the Prome district 
and Ava.—Fl. Fr. Sept.—l—SS.=CaS. Lat. “_ 
grey, rather smooth, about 2 lin. thick, peeling off in large curved 
flakes ; beets digitately 3-foliolate, on a slender glabrous petiole 
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entire, thin-membranous, glabrous ; flowers rather small, white, 
with a golden throat and lip, on 1-3 lin, long, slender, minutely 
long ; corolla about twice as long, minutely tomentose outside; 
drupes globular, the size of a pepper-kernel, black, smooth, suf- 
rounded by the lax almost truncate calyx. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the upper mixed and the tropical forests of Prome — 
and ie Common in those of Martaban and Tenasserim, up to 2,000 it. eleva- 
tion.—Fl. March-Apl.—s: 1.—SS.—= Metam etc. eet 
REMARKs.— Wood yellowish or light-brown, clouded, close-grained, rather 2 3 
cose ble but strong.— 9 ’=45 pd. Used chiefly for Soodan belle for cattle 
rely asthe median 1-1} in. long), elliptically ovate to wn, 
