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led cymes in the axils of the leaves; disk 5-lobed; petals obovate, 
narrowed at the base, long and elegantly fringed round the mar- 
gins of the disk-lobes. 
Hazp.—Martaban and Tenasserim.—Fl. March. 
2. L, Wallichii, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 615.—Mong-taing.—A 
tree (50—70 + 30—40 + 6—8), shedding leaves during H.S., all parts 
glabrous; bark about 3 in. thick, rather smooth, grey, soft; cut 
dark-red ; leaves from elliptically to oval-oblong, on a 3-1} in. long 
petiole, rounded at the base, 4-6 in. long, blunt to acute, entire, 
glaucous-green, glossy above ; flowers about 2-24 lin. in diameter, 
on 1-14 lin. long white pedicels, forming rigid greenish-white quite 
glabrous panicles in the axils of the leaves and at the end of the 
branchlets ; petals greenish white, rotundate, naked and entire, in a 
ied state corrugate inside ; disk large, fleshy, yellow, smooth, in a 
dried state wrinkled, the 5 deflexed stamens inserted on the same; 
ovary blood-red or crimson ; capsules about 4 in. long or somewhat 
longer by 2 broad, 3-lobed and 3-valved, the valves smooth 3 seeds 
compressed, imbricate (including the wing), 2-2} in. long, oblong, 
completely surrounded by the membranous wing. 
-—Common in the open, and more especially in the Eng forests all over 
= and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl, Jan.-March; Fr. March-Apr.—l. 
—=Lat. Dil. Metam. 
Remarxs.—W, ale, turning pale-brown, finely and rather loose-grained, 
hard, rather Hight the pe rings a narrow, Se oe brown. Recom- 
mended for furniture.—W= 1! 33-38; break weight—121 pd. 
8. L. littorale, Kz. (Kokoona littoralis, Laws. in Hf. Ind. 
Fl. i. 617).—Mong-taing.— An. evergreen tree (40—60+15—25 
: phitish, on slender about a line long pedicels, brachiate-cymose and 
somming rather large slenderly peduncled and branched glabrous 
_ panicles in the axils of the upper leaves and at the end of the 
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