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densely and shortly whitish tomentose, usually 4-coccous ; seeds 
oblong, black-brown, obsoletely and minutely tubercled. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
base, on a puberous petiole 1-23 in. long, often produced into 
1 or 2, rarely 4, mor 
obsoletely repand-toothed, thick-membranous or pergamaceous, 
Has.—Not unfrequent along choungs in the tropical forests of the eastern 
slopes of the Pegu Yomah and from Martaban downto Tenasserim.—Fl, Oct.- 
ov.—s.—SS.—=SiS. Metam. 
8. M, Roxburghianus, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen tree (20— 
25+8—10+42—38), often remaining shrubby, all softer parts softly 
but loosely pubescent; leaves orbicular-ovate to ovate, broadly 
peltate and usually 9-nerved at the rounded and somewhat truncate 
base, abruptly and thinly acuminate, on a puberulous petiole 1 to 3 
m. long, 4-6 in. long and nearly as broad, chartaceous or membran- 
ous, repand-toothed, on both sides (above minutely) pubescent, 
beneath glandular-dotted, the transverse veination prominent ; 
flowers small, greenish, shortly pedicelled, the males clustered, the 
females solitary, supported by linear pubescent bracts, forming 
terminal, simple, greyish or tawny-pubescent racemes ; ovary warty 
and hirsute ; capsules 3-coccous and 3-lobed, shortly hirsute and 
glandular, intermixed with short, hairy, subulate bristles, the cocci . 
of the size of a very small pea; seeds globular, smooth. 
Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Martaban, east of Tounghso ; 
also Chittagong.— Fl. Apr,-May ; Pr. Aug.—s.—SS.=Metam. 
9. M, acuminatus, Muell. Arg.—An evergreen large shrub, 8- 
12 ft. high, the young parts shortly puberul 
