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and bluntish acuminate, 4-6 in. long, when full-grown rigidly but 
thin coriaceous, glaucous-green, pubescent beneath, but soon glab- 
rescent and glaucescent, the nerves and net-veination rather strong ; 
flowers small, white, on short and thick tomentose pedicels shorter 
than the perianth, forming rather short and robust densely tawny 
pubescent or tomentose cymose panicles crowded at the end of the 
branchlets ; perianth tawny-tomentose, the segments ovate, acute, 
about 1} lin. long; fruiting pedicel somewhat lengthening and 
thickened, the perianth little enlarged and persistent ; fruits globu- 
lar, the size of a pepper-kernel, black, smooth. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
MACHILUS, Rumph. 
Flowers almost as in Cinnamomum, the perianth consisting of 6 
persistent, spreading or reflexed segments which remain unchanged 
and do not mdurate under the fruit, the 3 outer ones often some- 
what larger than the inner ones. Stamens 12, as in Cinnamomum. 
rry globular to oblong.—Trees or shrubs, with alternating penni- 
nerved leaves. Flowers rather largish, forming racemes or com- 
pound cymose corymbs at the end of the branches or in the axils 
of the leaves; bracts scale-like, deciduous. 
* Leaves coriaceous, glaucous beneath. 
: Leaves bluntish acuminate, with the margins not reflexed. 
Perianth-segments about 2} lin.long .  . .  . .. ~~~ ML Indica. 
Perianth-segments beet Oe ee ee A AE mons, 
O eaves blunt, oval, with reflexed margins : . M. fruticosa, 
* %& Leaves acuminate, hardly chartaceous, one-coloured . M. Tavoyana. 
Indica, Lour. (M. odoratissima, NE.; Brand. For. F. 
appressed-pubescent and glabrescent, the segments about 24 lin. 
lo s linear to linear-lanceolate, rather bluntish, somewhat enlarging, 
persistent, and becoming spreading or reflexed under the ovoid 
nearly } an in. long glabrous fruit. 
7 fet unfrequent in the moister hill forests of Martaban, at 3,000 to 
%0 ft, elevation.— Fl. March.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
