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358 EUPHORBIACER, [ dutidesma. 
1. A, Bunias, Spreng. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 200, t. 24, f. 3.— 
An evergreen small tree, the leaf-buds tawny-pubescent ; stipules 
ovate-cordate, acuminate, deciduous; leaves lanceolate to ellipti- 
cally lanceolate, on a strong glabrous petiole 2-3 lin. long, acute or 
obtuse at the base, 3-4 in. long, more or less acute or bluntish 
apiculate, coriaceous, glossy, glabrous ; flowers small, greenish, 
sessile, forming a rather robust, simple or branched, slightly rusty- 
pilose spike in the axils of the leaves and at the end of the branch- 
lets ; bracts minute, ovate ; calyx eup-shaped, obsoletely 3-toothed, 
slightly and minutely pilose; stamens usually 3; disk glabrous; 
styles 3, terminal; drupes elliptical, 2-3 lin. long, sappy, red, then 
bluish black, smooth, the putamen compressed, laeunose. 
Hazs.—Upper Tenasserim (according to Muell. Arg.). 
2. A. Ghaesembilla, Gaertn. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 200; Brand. 
For. Fl., 446.—Pyee-sin.—A tree (20—25 +4—8 + 1—2), leafless 
in H.S., the young parts tawny or greyish pubescent ; bark 4 in. 
thick, even, finely longitudinally fissured, dark or blackish brown ; 
cut dryish, red-brown ; stipules linear, acute, pubescent, about 3-4 
lin. long, very deciduous ; leaves broadly oblong to obovate-oblong, 
on a rather slender puberulous petiole 3-6 lin. long, rounded at the 
-3 in. long, retuse, blunt, or rarely somewhat acute, espe- 
cially while young shortly pubescent beneath, more or less gilabres- 
cent ; flowers minute, almost sessile, or on very minute pedicels, . 
forming short, pubescent, compound spikes in the axils of the upper 
leaves and at the end of the branchlets; bracts minute, shorter 
than the flowers, while young obovate, at length linear, pubes- 
cent ; calyx deeply 5-7-parted, pubescent, the lobes ovate; disk 
pilose; stigmas terminal ; drupes almost obliquely obovoid, red, 
then blackish, sappy, smooth, the putamen compressed, pitted, 
more than a line long. 
Has.—Frequent in the tidal forests and entering the savannah jungles of 
Pegu and Martaban.—Fl. Apr.-May ; Fr. June-July.—l.—SS.=All. 
ReMaRKs.—Wood rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, brittle, white or 
pale-coloured, 
Hap.—Upper Tenasserim. 
