328 SANTALACER. [ Henslowia, 
the lobes inflexed, persistent. Stamens 5 or 6, inserted opposite to 
the perianth-lobes near their base; filaments minute, subulate ; 
anthers dorsifix, introrse, the cells almost didymous, dehiscing by a 
transverse slit. Disk epigynous, concave or convex, with the 
margins not free. Ovary inferior, l-celled, with 2-4 ovules sus- 
pended from the apex of the free central placenta; style short, 
with a 3-5-lobed stigma. Fruit an ovoid or globular fleshy drupe, 
containing a hard 1l-seeded putamen. Albumen deeply lobed. 
Embryo central, straight ; radicle superior, much longer than the 
cotyledons.—Parasitic shrubs, with alternate 3-7-nerved simple 
leaves. Flowers minute, in small axillary cymes or spikes or soli- 
tary. 
%* Flowers in sessile clusters; bracts densely imbricate, 
rotundate, with broad membranous margins. 
Branches and branchlets densely but minutely warted ; perianth- 
SONNE PET SS) ge SUE U2, OS Cig0s OD ts Sie 
* *« Flowers in peduncled 1- or more-flowered involucred um- 
ellets; bracts acute, without membranous borders 
Flowers sessile or nearly so; perianth-lobes 5; leaves coriaceous . H. heterantha. 
Flowers pedicelled ; perianth-lobes 6; leaves very thick coriaceous H. coriacea. 
L 2 
small, about 14-2 lin. long, ellipsoid-oblong, smooth, yellow, crown- 
h, the putamen thin but hard, with 5 
ce Ye 1, heterantha proper : flowers sessile or nearly so; perianth- 
Var. 2, coriacea : flowers shortly pedicelled ; perianth-lobes 6. 
Has.—Frequent in the orests, ially the drier ones, of the Martaban : 
. elev March. . 
H hill f 
hills east of Tounghoo, at 4,000 to 7,000 ation, —F. 
