318 ANACARDIACER, [ Parishia. 
. M. usitata, Wall. ; H. f. Ind. Fl. 25.—T/it-say-pen.—A tree 
(50-604, 1580+ 6—9), shedding leaves in H.S., all younger parts 
villous ; bark thin, irregularly breaking up into small angular thin 
flakes ; leaves oblong or obovate-cuneate, decurrent on the strong 
densely pubescent petiole which is often up to an inch long, blunt or 
acute, ee rather chartaceous, while young on both sides densely 
and — villous, when adult turning shortly and densely pubescent, 
-12 in. long, the parallel nerves and net-veination conspicuous ; 
paling white, middling-sized, on 4-6 lin. long tomentose pedicels, 
ye ose, forming densely pubescent or tomentose panicles in 
the on of the upper leaves and much shorter than them; calyx as 
in the former, 4-5 lin. long, puberulous; petals lanceolate, acute, 
5 lin. long, pubescent ; drupes globular, the size of a cherry, smooth, q 
on a thick hardly 4-5 lin. long stalk; petals wing-shaped, stellately 4 
spreading, oblong, about 2 in. long, much-yeined, purplish, glab- 
rous, : 
Has.—Frequent in the open fofesie, especially the Eng and hill Eng forests, 
— — the dry forests, from Pro eke and Martaban down to Tenasserim, 
3,000 ft. faevoaii'y aie rhb —Fl. March ; Fr. Apr.-May.—l.—8S.— 
Lat. 1 Dil. Aren. Met 
RemarKs.— Wood Sa close and fine-grained. 0’=54 pd. Used for 
stocks of Burmese anchors, tool-helves, &c., and is cescnspesnestpe fae handles of 
tools and for machinery generally, for _zailway-sleepers, gun-st The 
tree exudes a black gum—the fa arnish—with which almost every 
essel in a Burmese house, inten to opntala’ a3 either solid or liquid food, is 
lacquered. 
PARISHIA, Hf. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx 3-4-lobed, valvate, wing-like mle 
after flowering. Petals 4,imbricate. Males: Stamens 4, insert 
below the margin of the annular 4-lobed disk. Ovary MS ee > 
columnar. Females: Ovary free, eng with a solitary pe ulous 4 
_ovule; style Soggees unequally 3-cleft. Fruit coriaceous, sessile, : 
1-seeded.- Trees, alternate se leaves, Flowers rather 
in ample pel 
1. P. insignis, H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 80.—An evergreen tree (80— | 
1004.30 60+ 812), the eA ali parts tawn y villous ; leaves a 
unpaired-pinnate, the rachis and_ petiole pen and glabrous ; es 
leaflets usually in 9 pairs with an odd one, ovate-oblong to ovate, 4 
. = ite oblique, on a short puberulous petiolule, acuminate, 4-5 in. 
» eh us, glabrous, the nerves thin, but conspicuous OB 
= : sides ; #Rspabe — small, on slender 3- ATK long pubescent 
a sat y ose and forming an ample 
villous panicle sf abeat the length of the font Lore linear or 
_ linear-lanceolate, tawny or rusty pubescent, 2-3 -3 lin. long ; 
