206 BURSERACER. [ Gomphia. 
leaf-shedding tree, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 
shortly petioled, blunt or acute, sharply serrulate; flowers rather 
large, corymbose; petals usually 7 to 8, obovate- -oblong ; filaments 
almost 4 times shorter than the anthers ; ; styles connate; sepals of 
the fruiting calyx erect-connivent. : 
Has.— Brome: Tenasserim (?)—Fl. H.S. a 
0. fruticulosa, Kz.—A stunted dwarfy shrub, with strong 
ieee underground trunk, 1 to 3 ft. high, leafless in H.S., all 
parts glabrous ; ne usually cuneate-oblong or cuneate-lanceolate, 
about 4-5 in. long, acuminate to almost bluntish, at base narrow: of 
into a very short petiole, chartaceous, sharply. serrulate; flowers 
showy, bright yellow, eppateing along with, or before, the young 
eaves, on “longer or shorter pedicels, arising either direct from the 
short lateral branchlets, or usually from short simple or branched 
peduncles ; petals 5, obovate, clawed; filaments as long as the 
anthers; style as long or somewhat longer than the sepals, very 
slender, filiform; stigma minute, truncate; sepals of the fruiting 
ose connivent. 
—Frequent in the open forests, especially the eoatcoes all over Pegu 
mei geet oes —F\. Apr.-May ; Fr. June-July.—l.—SS. = Dil. Arg. 
GOMPHIA, Schreb. 
Sepals 5, persistent or a usually coloured. Petals 5, 
bricate. Doras thick, lobed or stalk-like. Stamens 10, the 
filaments very short ; anthers eR os by pores. Ovary deeply 5-6- 
parted, the lobes inserted obliquely on the torus, 1, a solitary 
ascending ovule in each cell; styles connate. Drapes be: fewer 
by abortion, sessile on the enlarged torus. Seeds er 
or shrubs, with simple serrate leaves. Stipules usally ye 
Flowers yellow or orange-yellow, in terminal panicles 
1. G. Sumatrana, Jack.; H-f. Ind. Fl. i. 525 ak little ever- 
n tree, all parts gl shrous ; leaves lanceolate to elliptically 
oblong, shortly ptioled, acuminate, bluntish serrate, 3-5 in. oak 
‘obtuse or acute at chartaceous, pore flowers we sm. 
<s taettipmeadiae along the 
- BURSERACEZ. 
‘Flowers hermaphrodite or ygamous, regular. Calyx gamose- - 
— —— stig La or valvate. Petals 3.5, - 
