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petals 3, oval; staminal tube 
globular, fleshy, entire, the 6 anthers included and almost sessile : 
ovary 3-celled; capsules globose, about 14-14 in. thick, while 
- young puberulous, rather fleshy-coriaceous, opening into 3 valves ; 
. seeds rather large, oblong, completely enclosed in the fleshy scarlet 
arillus, 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pi 
Yomah and from Martaban down to Tenasserim, up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. 
Apr.-May.—s,—SS. = Metam. SiS. Lat. p. 
RemaRxKs.—Wood white, turning pale-brown, the heartwood darker coloured, 
rather heavy, streaked, rather coarse-fibrous, but close-grained, takes a fine polish. 
O'=80 pd. Adapted for house-building. Seeds yield an oil. 
2. A. cucullata, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 560.; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 55.—Thit-nee.— An evergreen middling-sized tree, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, glabrous; leaflets in 3 to 4 
pairs with an odd one, opposite, shortly petioluled, obliquely ovate- 
lanceolate, blunt, entire, thin coriaceous ; flowers small, yellow, 
the males about 2 lin. in diameter, on rather short thick pedicels, 
forming drooping branched sparingly scaly axillary panicles of 
about the length of the leaves, the hermaphrodite ones by 3-6 in a 
short thick axillary spike; petals 3, oval, coneave; staminal tube 
turbinate, fleshy, slightly 3-toothed at the summit, the 6-8 oblong 
anthers sessile, included; ovary 3-celled ; capsules nearly globose, 
obtusely 3-lobed, as large as a middling-sized apple, toughly fleshy- 
coriaceous, 3-valved ; seeds large, roundish, 3-angular, covered for 
$ by a fleshy bright orange-coloured arillus. 
Has.—Forests of Lower Pegu and Tenasserim.—Fl.-Sept.—s, 
RemarKs.—Wood brown, rather hard and strong, but not heavy. Adapted 
for house-building. : 
