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of a pea, to about its middle surrounded by the adnate calyx and 
there marked by a prominent ring (indicating the remains of the 
ealyx-limb), shortly yellowish puberulous, at the top prolonged in a 
flat, linear-oblong, coriaceous, blunt or almost retuse wing of about 
1-14 in. in length. 
Has.— Not unfrequent in the open, especially the Eng forests, and in the dry 
forests of Prome, Pegu, and Martaban ; also in Ava.—Fl. Nov.; Fr. March-Apr.— 
1. or s: L—SS =petrophilous imperm. 
Remarxs.—Wood coarse, fibrous, yellowish or brownish yellow, rather heavy, 
perishable. 
lanceolate almost sre a glossy blunt wing of about 2 m. im 
length. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
_ 4. V. Maingayi, Laws. in Hf. Ind. Fi. i. 631.—An evergreen 
climbing shrub, all parts glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate to 
oblong, blunt or almost notched, 4-7 in. long, shortly petioled, 
entire, coriaceous, glabrous, with about 10 lateral nerves on eact 
side; flowers in long, filiform, simple or compound racemes ; fruits 
glabrous and almost polished; the nut globular, nearly 3 in. in 
diameter, blackish, the calyx forming a large basal adnate disk, the 
Wing 2-23 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate. : 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
APTERON, Kz. 
_ Calyx 5-cleft, with a short obversely conical tube. Petals 5, 
, inserted between the calyx-lobes. Stamens 5, the filaments 
in, and adnate to, the enlarged calyx, crowned by - 
limb, not winged, 1-celled and Fi Seas shrubs, with 
al penninerved leaves. Flowers small, clustered, forming 
racemose panicles, 
1. A. lanceolatum, Kz.; H-f. Ind. Fi. i. 643.—A large scan- 
