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Has.—Frequent in the shrubberies and low forests, but chiefly in the 
savannah jungles from Pegu and Arracan down to Tenasserim: var.2: Arracan, 
i —Fi. Fr. Nov.-Jan.—1.—88.—=All. SiS. 
8. C. microcarpa, Bth.—A leaf-shedding large shrub, all 
parts glabrous, or rarely the young shoots puberulous, the older 
branches minutely lenticellate-warted ; leaves oblong to elliptically 
- and ovyal-oblong, on a slender 1-14 lin. long petiole, obtuse or acute 
at the base, 1-2 in. long, acute or bluntish, chartaceous, glabrous, 
or rarely puberulous on the glaucescent under-surface; flowers 
minute, on slender pedicels, solitary or few together in the axils of 
the young leaves ; calyx glabrous; stamens 5, the 3 inner ones 
connate, the 2 outer shorter and united only at the base; ovary 
globular, the styles very short; capsule berry-like and sappy, glo- 
bular, the size of a pepper-grain, 10-6-coccous, smooth, 
Var. 1, microcarpa proper ; all parts glabrous. 
Var. 2, pubescens: young shoots and often the under-surface 
of the leaves puberulous. 
Hap.—Var. 1: in the tropical forests along choungs, from Chittagong and 
Pegu down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fi. R.S. ; Fr. Feb~March. 
BISCHOFFIA, BI. 
base, simple, linear. Capsule drupaceous, sappy, almost indehis- 
a 8-4-coccous crustaceous putamen. umen 
scanty ; cotyledons large, cordate-ovate, complanate, 3 times longer 
than the radicle—Trees, with 3-foliolate long-petioled leaves, 
Flowers minute, in axillary panicles. 
1. B. Javanica, BI.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 259; Brand. For. 
Fi., 446.—A tree(30—40 + 12—18 + 2—4), shedding leaves in H.S., 
all parts quite glabrous; bark rather smooth, blackish grey ; leaves 
3-foliolate, on a 14 to 6 in. long petiole; leaflets from broadly 
ovate to oblong-lanceolate, on petiolules varying in length from } to 
an inch, rounded or acute at the base, 3-5 in. long, shortly and rath 
abruptly acuminate, repand-toothed, succulent-membranous, glab- 
