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corolla-lobes, slightly adhering to the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-6- 
rarely 7-8-celled, with 1 or 2 ovules in each cell ; stigmas as many 
as cells to the ovary, distinct or connate. Drupe globular, con- 
taining 4-8 bony or crustaceous pyrenes.—Trees or shrubs with entire 
or rarely toothed or spiny leaves. Flowers small, in axillary cymes. 
* Male inflorescence cymose, the female flowers clustered or 
solitary. 
Leaves cuneate‘laxebhlaie, 2-34 in. long, very opaque and seid I. gaultheriafo- 
beneath z 2 ‘ ‘ ‘ : ‘ ; cot lia, 
* & Female flowers in simple or compound umbelets or 
mes, 
x Rowe head-like contracted and small, on a long com- 
ressed peduncle .  . . s : = . I. Godayam, 
xX es divaricately 2-cleft, on a rather short peduncle. 
Cymes once divaricately 2-cleft ; bark pale coloured . < - ZT. macrophylia. 
Cymes twice or thrice dichotomously branched ; bark white ; 
stigma stout . : . ‘ . > $ : . - I. cymosa. 
As preceding, but stigma sessile . . gine dees . . I. Wallichii. 
1. I, gaultheriefolia, Kz.—An evergreen shrub or tree ?), all 
parts glabrous ; leaves linear-lanceolate, alternate, cuneate towards 
the base, on a short and thick petiole, acute, 3-34 in. long, coriace- 
ous, glabrous, serrate, the nerves beneath conspicuous ; flowers 
minute, on slender glabrous pedicels, forming short, slender, glabrous 
axillary cymes of about the length of the petioles or somewhat 
longer ; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes broadly oblong, bluntish; petals 
Totundate ; stamens 5, on slender filaments. 
Has.—Tenasserim, 
ud 
reddish petiole 3-3 in. long, 4-6 in. long, shortly and usually blunt- 
ish-acuminate, entire, when full grown coriaceous, glabrous, glossy 
k-green above, beneath pale coloured ; flowers white, on 1-3 lin. 
long rather slender puberulous or glabrescent pedicels, forming a 
small umbel at the bracted end of the compressed glabrous or puberu- 
men 
per-kernel, containing about 8 pyrenes, and in a dried state marked 
by as many furrows. 
po A2-—Frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim.—Fl. 
Febr..Apr—s-S8.—-Motam- Lat. p. 
_Remwarrs.—w, ede i , rather heavy, fibrous and tough, 
rather of : oe es CY 
