290 LAURINEX. [ Phoebe. 
* All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous A . P. lanceolata, 
*%« Younger parts and inflorescence more or less tomen- 
Panicle slender; pedicels as ‘long or longer than the perianth ; 
fruits oval. A . . : = i : : . P. pubescens. 
Panicle stout; pedicels rather thick, shorter than the perianth ; 
fruits globular : . . . 2 : : . P. villosa, 
1. Ph, lanceolata, NE.; Brand. For. Fl. 377.—An evergreen 
middling-sized tree, all parts quite glabrous; leaves lanceolate to 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 4-7 in. long, coriaceous, 
glabrous, glaucescent beneath; flowers small, white, on slender, 
glabrous, 1-14 lin. long pedicels, forming slender, long-peduncled, 
simple, glabrous panicles in the axils of the leaves and at the end 
of the branchlets; perianth glabrous, the segments about a line 
long, oblong, rather blunt; fruiting perianth and the thickened 
pedicels a little enlarged and hardened, surrounding the oblong — 
i ; 
drupaceous black fruit which is hardly 4 an in. long. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and drier hill forests from Martaban 
ec.—s. tam. 
down to Tenasserim, up to 3,000 ft. elevation —Fl. D —SS.—Me 
2. Ph. pubescens, NE.—An evergreen tree (30—40+ (?) +2— 
3), all younger parts tawny-villous or pubescent ; bark about a line 
thick, pale-coloured, rather even, sprinkled with corky pustules and 
short fissures ; cut dry, pale-coloured ; leaves lanceolate to oblong- 
oO in 
orter and rounded ; fruiting pedicels thickened ; perianth per- 
sistent and hardened ; fruit oval, the size of a small pea, black, os 
glossy. 
HaB.—Frequent in the tropical forests all over Burma, from Ava and Chit- 
tagong down to Tenasserim, especiall 1 acc be 
Apr. May.—s.—SS.=Sis. Matha. : rs along choungs. P 
rem eatay yellowish, turning pale brown, rather heavy, close-grained, 
ages. 
soon attacked by xyloph 
dark brown, rough ; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, ona glab- 
rescent petiole 3-3 in. long, more or less acute at the base, shortly 
Wight.—An evergreen large tree, with a girth — 
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