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an inch or less in diameter, glabrous and smooth, umbonate, not or 
slightly constricted at the base, on a very short (1-2 lin. long) 
pubescent thick peduncle arising from branched reduced branchlets 
on the trunk and on the stronger branches ; bracts 3, broad, rounded 
or triangular, pubescent, persistent at the apex of the peduncle. 
Has.—In the savannah forests of Pegu; also Chittagong.—Fr. close of 
R.S.—l.—SS,=All. 
50. F. fistulosa, Rwdt.—An evergreen tree (25—35 + 8—10+ 
2—3), all parts glabrous, or the young branchlets sparingly appres- 
sed-hairy ; bark brown, about } in ick ; cut brown, milky; 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests, especially along choungs, 
from Martaban down to Tenasserim ; also occasionally along the eastern slopes 
of the Pegu Yomah.—Fr. March-Apr.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
RemarxKs.—Wood greyish pale brown, heavy, of a coarse but close. fibre. 
51. F, macropoda, Kz.—An evergreen tree (30—40+12—15 + 
entire or obsoletely waved-crenate, thin-chartaceous, glabrous, 
penninerved and shortly 8- or almost 5-nerved at the base, the 
nerves uniting towards the margin ; receptacles globular or nearly 
80, umbonate, constricted in a short stalk, glabrous, green, the size 
of a small cherry, on slender glabrous peduncles up to nearly an inch 
long, arising in dense clusters from tubercle-like reduced branches 
along the trunk and coarser branches, and often also in pairs from the 
le “axils; bracts 2 or 3, minute, at or towards the apex of the 
‘uncle, 
Haz.—In the tropical forests of South Andaman.—Fr. Apr.-May.—s.—SS. 
=SiS., ete. 
REMaRKs.— Wood soft, white. 
52. F. regia, Mig.—An evergreen tree (30—40+10—12+ 
3—5), all rienlabrone ; bark ey, 2-3 lin. thick, roughish from 
corky pustules; cut reddish, milky; stipules lanceolate, acumi- 
