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4. A. fruticulosum, Kz.—A small branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high, 
all softer parts pubescent ; stipules linear, acuminate, tawny-pubes- 
cent, longer than the petiole, 2-3 lin. 100g ; leaves small, ellipti- 
cally to obovate-lanceolate, on a strong tawny- She gas petiole up 
to a line long, rounded or obtuse at the narrowed base, 1-24 in. 
flowers minute, ae forming short and ra a robust, inoniy 
tomentose spikes, simple or sometimes compound, usually arising 
from short reduced branchlets; bracts ovate-lanceolate, pilose, 
minute ; calyx tomentose outside, 4-parted, the lobes rotundate, 
somewhat acute ; disk almost glabrous ; stamens 2 or 3, the anthers 
didymous ; styles terminal, simple; drupes red, then bluish black, 
somewhat obliquely ovoid, smooth, about 2-24 ‘lin. long, the puta- 
men oS aan slightly wrinkled 
B.—Tidal forests of a Pegu, on somewhat sandy soil near Pegu 
Gimsiay Fl. Fr. May-Ju 
5. A. velutinum, Tul.—Xin-pa-lin—An evergreen tree (25— 
30+ 8—15+2—3), all softer parts shortly and softly pubescent ; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous, about 3 lin. long, 
deciduous ; leaves oblong-laneeolate, more or less obtuse at the 
much shorter than the expanded leach, pubescen nt; calyx coals 
4~parted, the lobes blunt ; disk glabrous ; stamens usually 4; y mey 
pubescent, the stigmas terminal. 
Hazs.—Common along choungs in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes 
- the Pegu pes and from Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. May-June.— 
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-_6. A. velutinosum, Bl.—An evergreen tree (15—20+8—10 
+1—2), all parts more or less yellowish pubescent ; stipules ovate- 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, pubescent, about 3 iin. long ; leaves 
elliptically to ovate-lanceolate, on a strong densely yellowish tomen- 
tose petiole 2-3 lin. long, obtuse or acute at the base, 4-6 in. long, 
a gate entire, chartaceous, pubescent beneath and on the princi- 
al nerves ‘above ; flowers minute, in densely bracted pubescent cat- 
Sone pices! or by 2-3, almost nee in the axils of the leaves ; 
lanceolate, or the lower ones in the males often obovate an 
mer, ; calyx 4,.8-parted ; stigmas lateral ; drupes somewhat com- 
