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upper leaves and above the scars of the fallen ones; calyx silvery 
or greyish lepidote; petals villous inside; filaments sparingly 
pubescent ; ovary lepidote; styles simply 2-cleft ; capsules globose- 
3-coccous, the size of a cherry-stone or somewhat larger, woody, 
lepidote ; seeds smooth, about 8 lin. long. 
Hiz.—Frequent in the mixed forests, especially the upper ones, from Ava 
and Martaban to Pegu and Arracan, up to 2, ft. elevation ; often also culti- 
vated by Burmans.—Fl. Jan.-Feb. ; Fr. Apr.-May.—SS.=Si. 
EMARKS.—Wood yellowish white, rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, 
soft, rather perishable, 
4. C, Joufra, Roxb.—A tree (30—40+ 12—15+8—4), shed- 
ding leaves during H.S., the young shoots silvery, scaly and glabres- 
cent; leaves oblong to oblong- and obovate-lanceolate, on a glabrous 
petiole 1-2 in. long, 2-glanded at the narrow rounded: base, shorter 
or longer acuminate, 4-6 in. long, chartaceous, remotely and 
minutely repand-serrate, while young scaly beneath, more or less 
glabrescent; flowers small, whitish, on stellately puberulous about 
* lin. long pedicels, forming elongate, densely stellately-puberulous 
racemes in the axils of the upper leaves and often appearing crowded 
ore the appearance of the leaves; bracts minute, linear; calyx 
densely stellately-tomentose, the sepals ovate; petals and filaments 
villous ; ovary stellately tomentose, the styles simply 2-cleft; cap- 
sules ovoid, the size of a pigeon’s egg, almost acute, tawny or 
greyish scaly-stellate-puberulous, woody, slightly 8-lobed, 3-coc- 
cous ; seeds oblong, smooth, 3 in. long. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the low and lower mixed forests of Pegu and 
Martaban.— Fl, hao isa All. E ee 
5. C. Wallichii, Muell. Arg.—A tree (30—40 + 18—2543—4), 
shedding leaves in H.S. , all younger parts shortly and densely stellate- 
