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floral leaf, the whole forming a densely rusty-pubescent pon at 
the end of the branches or in the axils of the leaves; calyx densel 
rusty pubescent, 5-lobed, the tube elliptically oblong, ae a 
petals 5, obovate- oblong, like the stamens twice as long as the 
calyx-lohes ; ; fruits oblong, about an inch long, glabrous, shortl 
ioe the wings about as broad as the diameter of the nut, 
chartaceo 
Se Sciaiaod all over Burma and the prs provinces, in all kinds - 
ithews especially the —_ ones, up to 3. 000 ft elevation.—Fl. Nov. 
Feb.—1 X s.—S8.= @ 
ee .—Wood ke light, fibrous, but close -grained, pale-coloured, 
3. C. trifoliatum, Vent.—An evergreen large scrambling or 
scandent shrub, all parts glabrous or the young shoots puberu- 
lous ; leaves opposite or often whorled by 3 or rarely by 4, from 
elliptically and obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, usually. acute 
or blunt with a mucro, on a glabrous or fag acctealy pubescent petiole 
1-2 lin. long, entire and usually waved, coriaceous, usually 3-4 
in. long, sometimes much larger, glossy above, beneath smooth or 
rarely fugaceously pubescent along the midrib, with or without a 
tuft of hairs in the axils of the principal nerves; flowers small, 
whitish, subtended by a subulate appressed pubescent bract, form- 
ing densely tomentose or puberulous spikes arranged in in simple or 
brachiate panicles at the end of the —— or in the 2 of 
the leaves; calyx appressed greyish pubescent, densely hirsute 
side, the limb ok cup-shaped, 5-toothed, with the teeth aes: 
olate-subulate petals longer than the calyx-teeth, elliptically 
» fringed an and appressed pubescent outside ; fruits ellipti- 
air aos 1-14 in. long, pl ge sharply 5-angular, the angles 
almost wing-like produced, firmly coriaceous and much narrower 
than the diameter of the nut. 
Has.—Frequent in re —— forests and along inundated banks of choungs 
all over Burma from and Martaban down to Tenasserim.— 
March; Fr. Apr.-June = —ss.= 
4. C. tetragonocarpum, Kz.—. m large scandent 
shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong to to eliptically oblong, on a 
thick Sheet a line long petiole, blunt or almost retuse, 3-5 in. long, 
coriaceous, conspicuously nerved and abet on both sides, 
glabrous ; flowers small, whitish, subtended by a small subulate 
- villous bract, forming ‘robust, tawny villous, solitary spikes in the 
ected 
axils of the leaves and shorter than, or as long as, them, or 
in axillary and poor brachiate panicles ; calyx-tube shortly 
rusty villous, short, yi the limb = seein: 
