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ends, thin-coriaceous, glabrous and glossy, red-brown in drying, n 
veined on both sides ; flowers small, white, a little more at 2 
lin. in diameter, on short and stout pedicels, forming glabrous lax 
panicles usually longer than the leaves; sepals small, orbicular ; 
tals 3 lin. long, -erect and straight, oblong; drupes com pressed 
orbicular, glabrous. 
Has.—Forests of the Andamans and of Tenasserim. 
7. B. lancifolia, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 24.—A large evergreen 
tree, the young shoots tawny villous ; leaves lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, ona glabrous petiole 1-1} in. long, tapering at the 
base, 7-8. in. long, bluntis h acuminate, entire, coriaceous, quite 
glabrous, the nerves conspicuous, the net-veination irregular; 
flowers small, white, on 2-3 i long glabrous pedicels, laxly cymu- 
lose, forming usu ally numerous sea we glabrous, lax, and 
rather slender panicles at the end of the branchlets ; calyx glab- 
; petals ee rather blunt, about 2 lin. fog fila- 
aver as long as the ovary, glabrous ; ovary-carpels quite glabrous ; 
pes the size of a ngs pea, somewhat compressed, obliquely 
oblong. 
Has.—From Chittagong and Arracan down to the Andamans, in tropical 
forests. re C.S. 3 
GLUTA, L. 
Flowers spain wy oy < apts seers splitting irregular- 
ly, caducous. Petals 5 (rarely 4 Tas 6), adhering to the base of 
the raised stalk-like torus, imbrica’ Stamens 4-6, inserted above 
the petals on the torus ; ‘filaments y copillan: free. Ovary stalked, 
ilicse 1-celled, with a solitary ovule suspended from a free 
basilar funicle ; style filiform, lateral. Berry stalked, deformed, 
with a thick rind. Testa connate with the endocarp and abound- 
ing in a black balsamous juice. —Trees, with alternate simple 
leaves, the juice caustic. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal 
panicles, 
Panicle, calyx, and leaf-buds shortly puberulous ; petiole thick, 
ort G. Tavoyana. 
All the above parts glabrous ; : petioles long end skeeders >) 5. <<: @Quebpaak: 
st G. Tav fa f: “Ind: FR ii: re Ot statins 5 —An 
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rves and net-veination on pare si ob obaapuanbels lowers 
middling-sized, yellowish, on 2-4 lin. long, slender, puberulous pedi- 
eels, ices short almost simple or branched axillary and terminal 
