264 RHAMNACER. [ Smythea. 
dent shrub, the young shoots puberulous; leaves lanceolate, on a 
thick, puberulous and glabrescent petiole 2-3 lin. long, long and 
untish acuminate, serrate, chartaceous, 4-5 in. long, tawny puber- 
ulous on the nerves, soon glabrous; flowers small, on a line long 
puberulous pedicels, clustered or almost solitary, in racemes forming 
terminal and axillary greyish or yellowish pubescent panicles; calyx 
densely or slightly puberulous, about 14-2 lin. in diameter; ovary 
_ pubescent ; nuts (drupaceous(?), globular, unripe the size of a pepper- 
kernel, enclosed in the glabrescent enlarged calyx to nearly to the 
apex, and there surrounded by the remains of the calyx-limb. 
Has.—In the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah | 
(Yainoay chg.) and Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr. ; Fr. March-Apr. 
SMYTHEA, Seem. 
rather flat. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, recurved. Cap- 
sas 
umen none.—Scandent shrubs, with alternate penni- 
— leaves. Flowers small, clustered, racemose, forming pani- 
cles. 
1. S. calpi » Kz.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 632.—A scandent ever- 
green shrub, the branchlets tawny pilose; leaves lanceolate,on® 
thick, more or less pilose petiole 4-1 lin. long, acuminate, serrate, - 
chartaceous, 4-33 in. long, pilose along the midrib beneath, the 4 
rest glabrous ; capsules (unripe) 1} in. long, oblong, obliquely trun- 
cate at the top, densely tawny puberulous, coriaceous. 
Has.—Tenasserim (or Andamans ?), 
BERCHEMIA, Neck. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the tube hemispherical or turbinate. Petals 5, 
hooded. Stamens 5, the filaments filiform. Disk filling the calyx- 
tube, the margins free. ary immersed in the disk, free, 9-celled, 
narrowed i base 
terminal and axillary panicles. : 
__ 1. B. floribunda, Brongn. ; H-f. Ind. Fl. i. 637; Brand. For. — 
_ FL 91.—A large scandent shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves ellipti- 
cally to oblong-ovate, on a slender }-1 in. long petiole, rounded at — 
the base, 14-3 in. long, shortly and abruptly acuminate, ¢ sestin 
