294 LAURINER. [ Bezlschmiedia. 
ing above, strongly and laxly net-veined ; flowers small, greenish 
yellow, on 1-1} lin. long pubescent pedicels, forming usually short 
pubescent racemes of the length of the petiole or longer or sometimes 
twice as long, or occasionally reduced to a 3- or few-flowered cyme ; 
perianth shortly appressed tawny-pubescent, the segments nearly 
equal, oblong, about 14 lin. long ; fruits oblong, about 14 in. long 
or longer, bluish black, pruinous. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical, rarely in the moister upper mixed, forests of 
the Pegu Yomah and Martaban, up to 2,000 ft. elevation ; also Andamans.— 
Fl. March.—s : 1—SS.—=Metam. S8iS., etc. 
2. B. globularia, Kz.—A trée (40—50+15—30 +3—4), re- 
sembling much the former species, and possibly only a hill form of 
it ; the leaves are more lanceolate, and the fruits spherical of only 
an inch in diameter, the pericarp much thinner. 
Has.—Rather rare in the drier hill forests of Martaban east of Tounghoo 
at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. elevation.—Fr, Apr.—l.—SS.—=Metam. 
at once distinguished by the shorter thick petioles and s 
flowers.—(After Meissner.) 
Has.—South Tenasserim, 
CRYPTOCARYA, R. Br. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, the receptacle urceolate and enlarging; 
more or less narrowed at the mouth. Perianth-segments 6, equal or 
: 3 Dp 
nla racemes or panicles, the upper ones ofte 
forming an apparently terminal panicle, Fruiting  perianth-tube 
