298 LAURINER. [ Tetranthera, 
late to obovate and obovate-lanceolate, acute to cuneate at the base, 
on a pubescent or glabrous petiole 1-$ in. long, shortly acuminate 
to blunt and also rounded, pubescent on both sides, especially while 
young, or minutely puberulous to glabrous, membranous to thin- 
coriaceous, especially above elegantly net-veined ; flowers minute, 
dioecious, whitish, collected by 8-12 in the 4-phyllous tomentose or 
almost glabrous involucre, forming shortly tomentose or almost 
glabrous, sessile or peduncled, corymbose umbels of about the length — 
of, or longer than, the petiole; perianth truncate, without lobes; 
stamens about 14, alternating with as many or more staminodes ; 
ovary globular, in the males abortive ; berries globular, the size of a 
pea, smooth, black, resting on the club-shaped cup. 
Prof. Meissner has distinguished many varieties. 'The Burmese 
forms might be distinguished into a form with leaves tomentose or 
pubescent beneath and tomentose peduncles, growing in moister 
forests and ina dry country form with puberulous (almost glabrous) 
leaves and peduncles, etc., the latter growing chiefly in the Eng 
orests of Prome. 
Has.—Frequent in all moister forests all over Burma and adjacent pro- 
vinces; a glabrescent variety in the Eng forests of Prome.—Fl. Apr. & Oct. 
—s. & 1—SS.—= o Metam. Lat. S78. 
. 
Has.—Pegnu, Rangoon (according to Meissner), 
4. T. longifolia, NE.—Branchlets densely brown-tomentose, 
angular atthe end; leaves moderately coriaceous, oval or oblong, 
acute at both ends, or occasionally blunt at the base or at the apex, 
4-12 im. long, on a strong glabrescent petiole 5-7 lin. long, above 
sparingly and minutely pilose, soon turning glabrous, beneath dense- 
‘ly fulvous-pubescent and somewhat glaucous, rather prominently 
but laxly nerved and net-veined; umbels clustered, rufous-tomen- 
tose ; peduncle almost none; involucre 4-phyllous, 4-flowered, glab- 
rescent, about 3 lin. in diameter ; perianth 6-parted ; filaments 9, 
hirsute.—(After Meissner.) 
Var. 2, nitida, Meissn. : leaves broadly oblong-oval or obovate, 
rounded or shortly apiculate at the apex, glossy above, the ™ 
more spreading.— Meissner, 
Has.—Var. 2: Upper Tenasserim (according to Meissner). 
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