Melanorrhaa. | ANACARDIACER, 317 
white, on less than a line long slender not thickened pedicels, very 
numerous, cymulose-racemose, and forming a very — slender 
hilieons panicle at the end of the branches and in the th 
upper leaves and usually 3-4 times longer than them; alge ve 
size of a bean, blunt, smooth and red, adnate to, and supported by, 
the 5 oblong-linear reflexed 2 in. long longitudinally nerved pur- 
plish — petals. 
ry frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Tenasserim, 
Has.— 
<y rh in —- of the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. Febr.-Apr. ; Fr. May.—s:1.—SS.= 
ee white, soft. 
MELANORRHGA, Wall. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, hood-like cohering, decidu- 
ous, valvate. Petals 5 or 6, imbricate, enlarging and becoming 
wing-shaped in fruit. Disk thick, hemispherical. Stamens numer- 
ous, without order inserted on the torus, the filaments capillary. 
ary stalked, with a solitary ovule suspended from the free basilar 
by the 5 wing-shaped spreading petals. Seed solitary.—Trees, with 
alternate simple leaves. Flowers middling-sized, in axillary panicles. 
Leaves and panicles glabrous, or the latter puberulous ; fruit-stalk 
nearly 14 in. long, slender U1. glabra, 
Leaves pubescent beneath ; Panicle densely villous ; * gruit-stalk 
_ short and thick . M. usitata, 
- M. glabra, Wall. H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 25.—Thit-say-pen.—A 
Seidatine “ran tree, the younger ieblets and leaf-buds tawny 
puberulous ; leaves cuneate-oblong, decurrent on the short thick 
puberulous petiole, blunt or almost retuse, 6-10 in. long, entire, 
when full grown coriaceous and quite glabrous, the lateral nerves 
in. | ong. 
: Has.—Forests of Tenasserim. 
