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fruits globular or nearly so, the size of a cherry, the seed covered 
with a complete thin orange-yellow arillus. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Tenasserim and the Andamans,— 
Fl. H.S.; Fr. R.S.—s.—8S.—Metam. 
over with anthers; fruits about 14 in. long, oblong, glabrous, the 
seed with a uniformly pale-coloured testa, covered with an almost 
complete orange-yellow fleshy aril. 
Haz.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from Martaban down to 
Tenasserim and the Andamans, also on the southern spur of the Pega Yomah 
a Rangoon.— Fl, Febr.—Apr.; Fr Apr. May.—s.—SS.=Lat. p.; Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood white, coarsely fibrous, light, very perishable, soon attacked 
by xylophages. 
4. M. longifolia, Wall.—Za-deip-hpo.—An evergreen tree (60 
— —704+25—30+4—5), the younger parts tawny scurfy-tomen- 
tose; bark } in, thick, longitudinally lined, peeling off in little 
polished angular pieces; cut red, exuding a red resin; leaves 
large, oblong-lanceolate, almost cordate or rounded at the base, 1-14 
t. long, acuminate, on a very thick scurfy-tomentose petiole only _ 
4-6 lin. long, entire, coriaceous, while young covered with a very 
tugaceous tawny tomentum, soon turning glabrous, beneath glau- 
cous or pale-coloured, the 20-30 nerves at each side strong, approxi- 
mate, parallel; flowers middling-sized, rusty-scurfy-tomentose, on 
short curved pedicels, several together forming rather poor clusters 
of the length of, or longer than, the petiole and arising from axillary 
thick tubercles ; male perianth turbinate-globose, stalk-like narrowed 
towards the base, 3-lobed, the lobes broadly trigonous ; staminal 
column club-shaped, at the apex dilated in a depressed disk, around 
which the anthers are attached; fruits oblong, the size of a 
Pigeon’s ega, rusty-tomentose ; aril thin and lobed. i 
