Hymenoeardia.4 BUPHORBIACER. 395 
glabrous, beneath golden-lepidote and puberulous, chartaceous ; 
male spikes densely lepidote, puberulous, yellow, up to 2 in. long, 
solitary or by 2-3 from the axils of the leaves or from above the 
sears of the fallen ones, the females shortly pedicelled, in poor 
pubescent racemes ; ovary much compressed, the long styles crimson 
papillose ; capsules very flat-compressed, twice as broad as long, 
nerved, brown, glossy, nearly 4 an in. long. 
Has.—Common in the swamp forests and along the marshy borders of 
choungs in the savannahs, from Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim,—Fl. 
March-Apr. ; Fr. Apr.-May.—s x1.—SS.—All. 
Remarxs.—Wood rather heavy, of unequal fibre, pale brown, then red- 
brown, close-grained, rather hard and brittle. 
scars of the fallen ones, while young bracted and catkin-like, the 
_ females sessile, solitary, forming similar elongate simple spikes; 
calyx globular in bud, almost glabrous; stamens free, numer- 
ous; ovary 2-merous, compressed, densely gland-dotted, trans- 
hia wrinkled, the 2 styles short and large, densely papillose- 
ous, 
Haz.—Frequent in the swamp forests and in swampy depressions of the 
savannah forests of the alluvial plains of Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasse- 
-—Fi. Feb.-March.—s x 1—88.—All. 
RemaRKs.—Wood 0’=35 ; break-weight=153-170 pd. 
CLAOXYLON, A. Juss. 
Flowers dioecious or occasionally monoecious. Calyx valvate in 
bud, in the males 3- or rarely 4-, in the females 3- to 2-parted. | 
Petals none. Disk-glands usually free, or united in a disk. Sta- 
mens 6 to very numerous, free, on a central elevated receptacle ; 
anthers erect, 2-rimose. Ovary-rudiment none, Ovary 3- to 2- or 
4-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell ; styles as many as ovary- 
cells, simple and rather short, papillose-stigmatic, rarely almost 
smooth. Capsule 3- or rarely 2-4-coccous, fleshy-coriaceous and 
idurating. Seeds arillate, the arillus pure white or scarlet.—Shrubs 
or undershrubs, rarely trees, with stipuled, alternate, simple leaves. 
