Salia.| SALICINES. 493 
1. §. tetrasperma, Roxb.; Bedd. For. Fl., t. 302 ; Brand. For. 
Fl. 462, t. 58.—Mo-ma-kha.—An evergreen tree (25—30+4—10 
+3—4), usually branched already shortly above the base, the 
young shoots densely appressed silky-pubescent; bark bony, even, 
uregularly and longitudinally fissured ; cut light red; leaves vari- 
able, from linear- to oblong-lanceolate and oblong, on a petiole 
varying from 3 to 14 in. in length, usually somewhat unequal at the 
obtuse or acute base, long-acuminate, 4-6 in. long, membranous to 
chartaceous, minutely serrate or entire, quite glabrous, or beneath 
pubescent or velvety puberulous, and here constantly glaucous; 
catkins elongate, lax and interrupted-flowered, lateral, on short, 
axillary, deciduous, greyish pubescent or tomentose branchlets 
furnished with 3-6 diminutive leaves, and hence the catkins appear- 
ing peduncled and axillary; scales cucullate, produced in a lobe and 
resembling a slipper in shape, greyish villous or tomentose ; stamens 
6-8, the filaments long and slender, free; stigmas 2, spreading ; 
capsules ovoid, acuminate, more or less glabrous, about a line long, 
on a very slender puberulous stalk about 14 lin. long. 
Has.—Frequent along hill-streams from Ava and Martaban down to Tenas- 
serim, and descending along streams to the very tidal forests of Pegu and 
Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb.; Fr. Dec.—s 1—SS.=o. 
_ Remarxs.—Wood yellowish white, soft. O' =37 pd. Bark used for tan- 
ning. 
CASUARINE. 
Flowers monoecious, in catkins. Male catkins terete, elongate 
or short, the flowers 2-bracteoled, sessile in the axil of the toothed 
sheaths. Perianth 2-parted, the segments decussate with the bract- 
lets and cohering at their tips, deciduous; stamen 1, the filament 
exserted and thickened at the base; anthers 2-celled, the cells 
opening longitudinally. Female catkins usually axillary, globular 
or ellipsoid, the flowers arranged in several longitudinal rows, 1- 
bracted and supported by 2 lateral bractlets, both (bracts and 
bractlets) persistent. Perianth none; ovary with a single ovule 
suspended from the summit of the cell; style terminal with 2 fili- 
form stigmas. Ripe cones woody indurated. Achene enclosed by 
the enlarged bractlets which at length open valvately, compressed, 
membranous, winged at the apex, containing a solitary pendulous 
seed. Testa connate with the endocarp. Albumen none. Embryo 
straight, with large flat cotyledons, the radicle minute, superior.— 
ees, rarely shrubs, with numerous horse-tail-like jointed branch- 
lets toothed at their joints, but without leaves. Flowers in terminal 
and lateral catkins, monoecious, but the males and females not 
‘ppearing’ at the same time on the same tree. 
