= SS 
434 ROSACER. [ Prunus. 
calyx-tube shears the lobes elliptical, blunt, nearly 3 lin. long, 
woolly villous along the borders and inside ; petals obovate, 4 in. 
long; drupes the size of a large when ovoid, pointed, gilvous 
tomentose, fleshy and edible. 
Has.—Cultivated in Ava about Bhamo and inthe Kakhyen hills, up to 
3,500 ft. elevation.—Fl. Febr.-March; Fr. June-July. 
2. P. triflora, Roxb.—A small bushy tree, shedding leaves in 
C.S., all parts Bball ; bark smooth, blackish ; leaves obyersely 
lanceolate, 2-elandular at the acuminate ‘base, on a slender petiole 
about 4 in. long, shortly acuminate, minutely erenulate, 2-3 in. 
long, membranous, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, glandular-fringed ; 
flowers rather small, white, on slender glabrous pedicels }$ in. long, 
usually arising by threes from every leaf-bud ; calyx glabrous, the 
tube turbinate, the lobes longer than the tube, more than a line 
net kt ovate, acute, age tong on the Bod gina ; petals 3 in. long, 
large ; dite” éordate- ovoid, the ie of a plum, avi paeplie 
pruinose, grooved on one side, the pulp pale-reddish yellow. 
Has.—Ava hills. 
3. P. Puddum, Ldl.; Brand. For. Fl. 194.—A — 
tree, all parts glabrous; leaves lanceolate, Pape g at 
glandular base and somewhat narrowed in a 4-5 lin. ng pote 
_long-acuminate, 2-3 in. long, sharply and sally duplicately serrate, 
glabrous, chartaceous ; flowers middling-sized, rose-coloured, Bek 
co above the axils of the fallen leaves; calyx glabrous, the 
tube bell-shaped-tubular, about 4 lin. long, the lobes bie acute ; 
drupes globular, the size of a small poo on a long pendulous 
peduncle, smooth, yellow, dark-red on the sun-side. 
ae —Ava, arses hills, east of Bhamo. 
3. Pr. Martabanica, Kz.—An evergreen tree (50—60 +20—30 
+ 6—1), all parts quite glabrous; bark ve ry thin, fibrous, brown ; 
leaves from —— oblong and oblong to ovate-oblong, rounded 
or acuminate at the base, on a terete sulcate petiole } or more usually 
4 in. long, see 5-7 in. long, entire, firmly membranous 
or almost coriaceous, quite glabrous and glossy above, beneath 
prinkled with pellucid, in a dried state black, dots ; flowers small, 
oo. on 2 to 3 lin. long pedicels, forming axillary, glabrous, or 
: os destained of about 1} to 2 in. oe ie about a line 
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ak athe pea in are de and moister upper mixed forests’ of 
enasserim.—Fr. May.—s.—SS.—SiS 
ood uniformly dark. Wiskoyeliei; ratlier omavs; fibrous, very heavy. — 
