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glabrous or nearly so, the lobes obovate-cuneate, appressed tawny 
pubescent. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban, east of Toun- 
ghoo.—Fl. March-Apr.—s : 1—SS.=Metam. 
RemarKs.—Wood yellowish, turning pale-brown, rather heayy, of a some- 
what unequal coarse fibre, soon attacked by xylophages. Exudes a red resin. 
XYLIA, Bth. 
Flowers small, 5-parted, sessile, mostly hermaphrodite. Calyx 
tubular-bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals slightly cohering at the base, 
valvate. Stamens 10, free, exse 3 anthers without glands. 
Ovary sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, with a small terminal 
stigma. Pod sessile, broadly faleate, flat, woody, elastically 2- 
valved, septate between the transverse compressed s.—Unarm 
trees, with abruptly bipinnate leaves, the pinne in a single pair. 
Stipules small, linear, deciduous. Flower-heads globular, pedun- 
cled, solitary from the scars of the fallen leaves or spuriously 
racemose. 
1. 2. 
For. Fl. 171.—Pynkadoe.—A tree (90—100 +50—60 + 9— ), re- 
maining stunted in sterile grounds, leafless in H.S., the young shoots 
y striate, peeling off in irregular rounded pieces ; leaves 
abruptly bipinnate, the single pair of pinne on a 1-14 in. long 
appearing spuriously racemose or clustered ; calyx yellowish villous ; 
pods broadly falcate-lanceolate, cuneately tapering at the base, 3-4 
m. long, greyish brown, glabrous, striate, rather acute, flat, woody 
elastically 2-valved, many-seeded. : 
' Has.—Common in all leaf-shedding forests, but chiefly in the upper mixed 
forests, all over Burma from Ava and Martaban down +o Tenasserim, up to 
3,000 ft. elevation—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. C.8.—l.—SS.= @ SiS. = 
RemarKs.—Wood brown to dark-bro eavy, fibrous, but close-grained, 
work. OQ’ = 60-66 
k. or spars, 
railway sleepers, handles of chisels, gauges. Used for ploughs, -posts, 
Ta ge Posts, boat anchors, in the construction of carts and for other purposes. 
; a red resin, 
