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soon glabrescent, 3-nerved at the base and penninerved, the net- 
veination thin and lax, brown-dotted and variegated between; 
receptacles globular, the size of a small cherry, umbonate, more or 
i ith small lenticels, orange-coloured, covered with a 
very fugaceous down, sessile or nearly so, solitary or by pairs in 
the axils of the leaves; bracts 3, broadly triangular, pubescent 
persistent. 
Hazs.—Martaban hills, at 4,000 ft. elevation. 
side, transversely veined and indistinctly net-veined ; receptacles not 
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Var. 1, Lamponga proper: leaves rounded at the base, the 
petiole and nervation beneath appressed bristly-pubescent. 
Var. 2, chartacea: leaves usually more obovate-lanceolate, on 
longer glabrous petioles, glabrous ; receptacles globular, the size of 
a pea, glabrous, on a very short (1-14 lin.) peduncle bracted at the 
apex, by pairs in the axils of the leaves. 
Haz.—Both varieties in Upper Tenasserim ; the var. 2 apparently frequent.— 
Fr, Jan.-Apr. . 
globular or pear-like-globular, umbonate, somewhat rough, varying 
in size from that of a pea to that of a small cherry, rather abruptly 
narrowed in a more or less slender stalk 2-4 lin. long, sessile, green, 
then orange-coloured, usually by pairs in the axils of the leaves or 
