466 COMBRETACER. [ Anogeissus. 
4.winged, the wings _ pale-brown, nearly doubly broader than 
the fibrillose-clothed n 
. TES: eae ae tropical forests of Chittagong.—Fl. B.S. ; 
r, C.S. 
ANOGEISSUS, Wall. 
Calyx compressed, 2-winged, the tube long and ue pro- 
duced beyond the ovary, the limb bell-shaped or urceolate, 5-cleft, 
deciduous. Petals none. Stamens 10, in two series, the filaments 
oreriecs anthers Gall cordate. Ovary 1-celled with 2 suspended 
ovules; style filiform, with a simple stigma. Fruit small, straight, 
. 
Wall. ; Bedd. cs a t. 16; Brand. For. 
BL 228.—F. oong _ —A leaf-shedding tree (80—100 +40—80+ 
9—12), while young the trunk armed with numerous long spines 
(abortive branchlets), all softer parts more or less a ppressed-pubes- 
cent; bark about $ an in. thick, dark brownish grey, densely 
covered with herbaceous, green, rounded pustules covered with a 
thin, easily separable, greyish membrane ; leaves from lanceolate and 
ovate-lanceolate to oblong and linear-lanceolate acuminate, on a 
short, slender, pubescent petiole, entire, 1-3 in. long, chartaceous, 
while young more or less densely silky ‘beso, more or less glab- 
rescent or quite glabrescent ; flowers small, yellowish, crowded and 
sessile on the spherically thickened apex of the axillary, solitary, 
short, tawny or rusty pubescent peduncle ; calyx densely tawny or 
rusty tomentose all over, or the hmb outside glabrous or sparingly 
minutely pubescent ; fruits glabrous, glossy. 
Var. 3, uina : leaves larger and longer, acuminate, usually 
densely silk-hairy, at see while young; bark densely pustulate ; 
fruits trapezoid, nearly doubly broader than long, the apex and 
beak tawny pubescent or villous. 
Var. 2. phillyrexfolia (4. Shiliyeeg Se Heurk. & Muell- 
Arg.) : leaves smaller, quite glabrous when full grown; bark often 
_marmorate and more or less destitute of the pustules; fruits trape- 
es _zoid, not much broader than long; quite glabrous and glossy ; 
flower-heads nearly doubly smaller, 
ap—Var. 1: z frequent i in the mixed forests all over Burma from Ava and 
ng Earn & Tenasserim up to 3,000 ft.; var. 2: restricted to the are 
ay his alietial platen. of Proae’ ant Pegu, also Ava. 
He Ayer Maye—s x]1—SS.= o SiS. 
