368 EUPHORBIACER, - [ Briedelia, 
so, beneath softly tawny-pubescent ; flowers small, white, on short 
pubescent pedicels, clustered in the axils of the leaves ; calyx shortly 
and densely pubescent, the lobes lanceolate, about a line long; 
petals obovate, truncate and 3-toothed ; disk large, orbicular, deep- 
yellow. 
Haz.—Frequent along choungs in the tropical forests along the eastern 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah. Fl. Apr.—s.—SS.—Sis, 
3. B. retusa, Spreng.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 260 ; Brand. For. 
Fl., 449, t. 55.—Tseip-che.—A tree (50—60 +20—30+5—6), while 
petiole 3-4 lin. long, acute, blunt or almost retuse, 3-5 in. long, entire, 
thin-coriaceous, glabrous above, minutely greyish pubescent and 
of the new leaves ; calyx glabrous, pubescent at the base, the lobes 
about a line long, lanceolate, acute ; male disk stellately 5-lobed ; 
drupes almost globular, the size of a pea, purplish black, glabrous, 
contaming a dehiscent 2-coccous putamen. 
Has.—Not unfrequent from Ava to Pegu in the mixed forests, especially 
the upper and lower ones, entering also the savannah forests, up to 2,000 it. 
elevation.— FI. RS. ; Fr. CS—L—68, — 958 All. 
Remarxs.—Wood grey, with a beautiful mottled grain, heavy, rather close- 
grained. O’=66 pd. Prized for house-posts, poche - 
s, f 
calyx glabrous, the lobes lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, nearly a 
line long 5 petals minute, obovate-oblong, rose-coloured ; disk orbi- 
cular, slightly lobed ; drupes globular, the size of a pea, sappy, 
purpli oth. 
Has.—Ava. : 2 
OV = omen hoe Rada and close-grained, soft, the sapwood white, the heart 2 
se B. ovata, Dene.—An evergreen small tree, all parts glab- 
rous ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong, acute or obtuse at the 
base, on a slender petiole about 2 lin. long, sharply apiculate or 
