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nerves sometimes appearing more or less triplinerved), transversely 
veined and net-veined between the prominent nerves ; receptacles 
varying in shape from almost pear-shaped-ovoid to globose-ovoid, 
umbonate, with or without stray scales especially towards the apex, 
the size of a cherry, yellowish, pubescent from greyish or brownish 
short hairs, a little narrowed at the oe on greyish or tawny pubes- 
cent peduncles 2-5 lin. long, arising from leafless scaly radical 
roots and lower parts of the trunk and also in pairs or solitary in 
the axils of the leaves ; ae 3; small, ovate-triangular, pubescent, 
at the apex of the Bee le. 
Has.—Common in the mixed, oe the upper and savannah, forests 
all over Burma from ave and Chit tage ng down to Tenasserim and the Anda- 
mans, up to 1,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. D.S.—1.—SS.=o. SiS. 
55. F. cunia, Buch.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 224, Brand. For. Fi. 
421.—Ye-kha-ong.—An evergreen tree (30—50-+10—15+3—4) 
the softer shoots roughish pubescent ; bark red-brown; leaves oblong 
to obovate-oblong, sometimes oblong-linear, conspicuously cordate- 
produced at the band of the one side, acute at the other, on a strong 
hirsute petiole 1-14 in. long, acuminate, 3-1 in. long, more or less 
repand-serrate or ‘sometimes almost entire, rigidly membranous, 
more or less harsh above, eet and shortly pubescent beneath, 
OS ae at the one side of the base and shortly 3-4-nerv 
at other ; receptacles from ecient to pear-shaped-globular, the 
size of a cherry, umbonate, shortly hispid, indistinctly ribb 
more or “ign tubercled and often furnis with scales arising 
irregularly, almost sessile or on ee peduncles 1-5 
lin. long, ane in clusters or by pairs from radical young shoots 
or from more or less branched scared reduced branches ; bracts 3, at 
the end of the peduncle, ovate, tomentose or pubescent. 
Var. 1, cunia proper: receptacles more pear-shaped, often nar- 
eee into a short stalk, not or little tubercled, on shorter or longer 
les 
Var. 2, conglomerata (F. conglomerata, Roxb.; Brand. For. 
Fi, , 422, t. 49) : receptacles more globular or turbinate, sessile or 
nearly so, much tubercled. 
—Var. 1: frequent in the mixed, especially the upper nies foes all 
oor Burma from Ava and Chittagong down to Tenasserim.— le 
8S.=Sis, M etam., etc. 
—Another species (F. hapalophylla, Kz.), very nearly a allied to the 
above, grows in Chittagon ng tana Khasi hills). It is a tree with red-brown bark ; 
the leaves are much larger and like those = F. con onglom omerata, bat of a very 
= or cherry, roughish, brown, very Ln (up to 7 ti in.) peduncled, all from radical 
