- Tetranthera 5] LAURINEE. 299 
5. IT. grandis, Wall.—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 12—154 
2—3), the branchlets fulvous or tawny-tomentose; bark brown, 
4-4 in. thick, covered with small warts; cut light brown; leaves 
variable, not only as to texture, but also in nervature, usually very 
large, obovate to obovate-oblong, on astrong densely tawny-tomen- 
tose petiole 1-2 in. long, acute at the base, 3-14 ft. long, blunt or 
rounded with a short point, chartaceous or coriaceous, with the ex- 
ception of the nerves, glabrous and somewhat glossy, beneath shortly 
tawny-pubescent, the nerves strong and numerous with the trans- 
verse net-veination between conspicuous; flowers in rather small 
involucred umbels, usually several together, the peduncles clustered, 
axillary. 
aB.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests all over Pegu, Martaban and 
Upper Tenasserim.—F 1. March.—s.—8S.—=Metam. SiS., ete. 
Remarks.—Wood yellow with a beautiful lustre, rather heavy, close-grained, 
very soft. A fine fancy wood. 
6. T. monopetala, Roxb. ; Brand. For. Fl. 380, t. 45.—A tree 
(40—50+ 10—25+43—6), shedding leaves in H.S., all softer parts 
shortly pubescent ; bark about an inch thick, pale-coloured, very un- 
even and rough, irregularly lacunose ; leaves from oblong to oval and 
obovate, on a rather long (4-1 in.) petiole, unequal at the rounded or 
obtuse base, varying in size from 2 in. only to 7-8 in., blunt, rounded 
or almost retuse, thin-coriaceous, above glabrous or nearly so, beneath 
pubescent, the nerves and transverse veins conspicuous ; flowers small, 
greenish yellow, forming by 5 or 6 dense head-like involuered um- 
bels of about 3 lin. in diameter, arising from the axils of the leaves ; 
partial peduncles about 8 to 6 lin. long, shortly tomentose ; involucre 
5-phyllous, the leaflets rotundate, concave, pubescent and ciliate ; 
perianth 6-parted, the segments blunt, ciliate; stamens in males 
slender and exserted, in the females short and included, 9 or 
sometimes 12 in number; filaments long-pilose ; berries ovoid, the 
size of a small cherry, about 4 lin. long, bluish black, glossy. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the mixed and tropical forests and along river sides 
all over i and adjacent provinces.—Fl. pr.-May; Fr. July-Sept.—s. xl. 
ReMarxs.—Wood white, rather light, fibrous, soon attacked by xylophages. 
NE.—An evergreen tree (20—30+ (?)+1 +»), 
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_ 4. T. amara, N1 : 
the branchlets sates or less brown-tomentose ; bark 1-2 lin. thie 
smooth and sparingly beset with little pustules, chocolate-brown ; 
ae: es 
shortly acuminate, firmly chartaceous, glabrous above except on 
the nerves, beneath more or less shortly tomentose, rarely almost 
