302 LAURINER, [ Tetranthera. 
14. T. myristicefolia, Wall—An evergreen small tree, all parts 
quite glabrous; leaves from obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
narrowed towards the acuminate base, on a rather slender petiole 
6-8 lin. long, bluntish and often retuse with a minute mucro, 5-6 
in. long, rigidly coriaceous, quite glabrous, above glossy and 
vividly green, beneath glaucous, the net-veination between the thin 
almost immersed nerves rather obsolete; involucred umbels 4- 
flowered, on slender, 5-8 lin. long, glabrous peduncles, forming 
umbel-like sessile or almost sessile clusters in the axils of the leaves ; 
involucre-leaflets 4-6, concave-rotundate, glabrous ; perianth quite 
glabrous ; berries obovate-globular, the size of a small cherry, 
smooth, resting on a large (nearly 8 lin. in diameter), thick fleshy, 
entire, smooth (in a dried state strongly wrinkled) cup contracted at 
the base into a slender 3 to 14 in. long stalk. 
Var. 1, myristicefolia proper: cup-stalk variable in length, 
usually not exceeding 4 an inch. 
Var. 2, longipes (Cylicodaphne longipes, Meissn.) : cup-stalk 
elongated to 1-1} in. length; fruit and fruit-cup nearly twice the 
size. 
-Has.—Tropical forests of Martaban and especially the Tenasserim provinces ; 
also Pegu, above Rangoon.—F'. Aug.-Oct.—s.—SS.=Metam. Lat. p. 
_15. T. nitida 
quite glabrous, the branchlets sharply cornered; leaves oblong, 
coriaceous, glabrous, the net-veination between the thin spreading 
nerves rather indistinct ; umbels involucred, 4-5-flowered, on 5-4 
Has.—Tropical forests in the valleys of the southern spurs of the Pegu 
Yomah, above Rangoon ; rare in Wictabay ot Aug.-Sept.—SS,.—Lat. p. 
16. T. Panamonja, NE.—An evergreen large tree, all parts 
glabrous, the pea shoots minutely puberulous or pruinous ; leaves 
elliptically oblong to. lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute at the some- 
what unequal base, on a puberous petiole.4-12 in. long, acuminate, — 2 | 
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