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small, white or pale lilac, on slender pedicels, forming solitary 
more or less puberulous axillary panicles shorter than the leaves ; 
calyx puberulous, the lobes oblong-lanceolate ; petals 3-34 lin. long, 
minutely puberulous; staminal tube bluish- lilac, slender, about 3 
lin. long, glabrous outside, sparingly pilose within, many-cleft at 
the summit; ovary 5-celled; drupes oblong, the size of a large 
pea or eee yellow, the stone obtusely 5- cornered, rome 5-celled. 
me and Ava, in and around villages, yi? ete om er 
wild in m the adjoining Siamese provinces.—Fl. Febr.-March; Fr. March- April. 
| Rem —Wood pale-brown or reddish, striate, ‘ii? lose sei rather 
| light ; yatee-s a fine Good for furniture, but warps and sp 
4. M. B Kz.—Taw-tha-ma-kha.—A tree (40—60 = 
12—20 4 ooo “ahedgnip leaves in H.S., all the younger parts grey- 
ish or yellowish scurfy-tomentose; bark brownish-grey, about 2 
lin. thick, rather even, longitudinally fissured and corky-lenticellate ; 
cut greenish-white ; "leaves bipinnate, petiole long and terete ; 
~ pinne usually in 5 to 3 pairs; leaflets of the main pinne in 5, of those 
below and above gradually in fewer pairs, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
rounded or acute at base, sometimes somewhat unequal, 14-2 in 
long, ey acuminate, entire, on short but slender usually pubern- 
lous petiolules; flow wers greenish-white, rather small, on very short 
scurfy-tomentose pedicels or almost sessile, forming yellowish or 
yish scurfy-tomentose corymbose axillary panicles shorter than 
the leaves ; calyx deeply 5- ee the lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
see “puberulous ; Pes about 8 lin. long, ee outside, densely 
ce in ey tro ical forests of Martaban.—Fl. March-Apr. ; 5 Fr. 
Apr. May. 88-—Metain 
ark —Sapwood wis of a silvery lustre, rather heavy, coarsely and 
somewhat unequally fibrous ; heart-wood brown, soft. 
CIPADESSA, BI. 
a Seagal ge 10-parted, entire at base sd ed ee dak, 
the lobes linear or 2-cleft at apex, bearing the 10 anthers between. 
oS ie cupular. 5-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each 
3 le oF 2-seeded stones. " Seeds pendulous.- 
“rig Geckos Shale or mat trees, with alternate unpaired- 
pinnate leaves. Flowers minute, panicled. 
