300 LAURINES. [ Tetranthera. 
peduncled involucred umbels, several arising from the axils of the 
leaves; perianth 6-parted ; filaments villous, only the 3 inner ones 
furnished with a pair of sessile glands above the base; berries the 
size of a small pea, smooth, bluish black, supported by the thickened 
6-lobed perianth-base. 
Haxz.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and from Martaban down to Tenasserim; also Andamans.—Fl, 
March-Apr. ; Fr. June.—s.—SS.=Metam. SiS., ete. 
EMARKS.—Wood very pale brown, turning darker on exposure to the air, 
— fibrous, but close-grained, rather soft, soon attacked by xylo- 
phages. 
Has.—Tenasserim (according to Meissner). 
9. T. glauca, Wall—An evergreen tree, the young shoots 
appressed silky-pubescent ; leaves lanceolate to linear, acute at the 
base, on an indistinetly puberulous petiole up-to 4 in. long, acumi- 
10. T, leiantha, Kz.—An evergreen tree 30-40 ft. high, all 
parts glabrous; leaves obovate to obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute 
at the base, on a strong petiole 14-2 in. long, acute or bluntish, 4-6 
about 24>lin. in diameter, glabrous, on strong but slender peduncles 
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