336 THYMELHACER. | dquilaria, 
oblong, on a line long petiole, acute or rounded at the base, 2-34 in. 
long, caudate-acuminate, thin-chartaceous, slightly appressed-pilose 
on the nerves beneath or glabrous, silky-glossy, faintly parallel- 
nerved ; flowers rather small, greenish, oa very slender pilose pedi- 
cels 2-3 lin. long or longer, forming sessile or shortly peduncled 
umbels arising laterally from the younger branchlets; perianth 24. 
In. long, slightly hairy outside, densely villous inside, especially 
the lobes ; perianth-scales oblong, villous, alternating with the sta- 
mens and as long; filaments red at apex ; ovary tawny-tomentose ; 
capsules obovate-cuneate, slightly compressed, about an inch long, 
densely aa or yellowish tomentose, in a dried state shrivelled and 
wrinkled. 
Has.—Martaban hills east of Tounghoo. 
Remarxs.—Wood very light, yellowish white, coarse-fibrous, but close- 
grained, takes a pale-brown polish. Used by the Karens for bows. Furnishes 
that sort of commercial Eagle-wood called by the Malays Kayu garu. 
2. A, Malaccensis, Lamk.—An evergreen tree, the young shoots 
appressed pilose ; leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong, on a pubescent 
glabrescent petiole 1-2 lin. long, obtuse at the base, 24-4 in. long, 
acuminate, chartaceous, silky-glossy, glabrous, or beneath sparingly 
pilose (especially while young) ; flowers small, on about 2 lin. long 
pedicels, in short puberulous umbels, nodding; perianth glabrous 
outside, greyish velvety within ; capsules compressed-obovate, taper- 
ing at the base, 2-valved, woody, smooth and glabrous. 
Has.—Burma, probably Tenasserim. 
EUPHORBIACEA. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx free, various, usually 5- or 3-lobed or 
-toothed, or wanting, the lobes imbricate or valvate. Corolla con- 
sisting of several petals and usually isomerous with the calyx-lobes 
and alternating with them, or very rarely gamopetalous, hypogy- 
nous or more or less perigynous, or wanting altogether. Disk varl- 
ously shaped or none. Stamens numerous, few or solitary, in the 
male flowers central or inserted at the bottom or at the middle of 
the calyx; filaments free or united into 1 or more bundles, erect or 
wanting. Ovary superior, usually 3- or 1-many-celled, the carpe 
whorled round a central column persisting after ripening of 
