474 MYRTACER. [ Rhodamnia. 
petals; ovary whitish tomentose, broadly hemispherical, adnate to 
the base of the cal 
aB.— Lower Tenasserim. —Fl. Aug. 
2. T. Burmanica, Griff.—Toung-yoh-pyee-zeng.— An evergreen 
tree (20-4042), ’the young shoots pubescent ; bark grey, about 
4 in. thick, fibrous, peeling off in thin, long, corky-fibrous flakes ; 
cut dry, pale-brown; leaves from obovate-lanceolate to almost 
coloured, opaque, and dotted ; flowers small, white, on rather slender, 
1-2 lin. long, slightly pilose pedicels, forming a short-peduncled, 
small, slightly and shortly pilose dichotomous cyme in me: axils of 
the leaves ; bracts linear-lanceolate, small, very deciduous; calyx 
about 14 lin. in diameter, puberulous, shortly villas ee leaeet 
inside, the teeth short, rather blunt ; petals about 4 lin. long, rotun- 
date ; stamens unequal, united by 5-7 into ey short. bundles free 
almost to the base, about the length of the calyx-teeth ; filaments 
puberulous; ovary half-superior, hemispherical, silvery-silk-hairy ; ; 
capsules oblong, cy as appressed, pilose and glabrescent, protruding 
for more than 4 from the calyx; seeds about 2 lin. long, linear- 
lanceolate, laterally compressed ‘and trigonous. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the Eng “Farce along - eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah and more frequently from Martaban down to Tenasserim, ascendin g 
also the hill Eng and drier hill forests of Mataban up ite 3,500 ft. elevation. — 
. March-Apr. ; Fr. Apr.-May.—l.—SS.—Lat. Metam 
3. T. Griffithii, Kz. fe evergreen ae tree, the leaf-buds 
imbricate-scaly ; leaves crowded at the end of the branchlets, lanceo- 
late, tapering at both ends, almost entire, coriaceous, pellucid- 
dotted ; ; cymes almost axillary, few-flowered, trichotomous ; flowers 
rather large, white ; ears, we turbinate ; limb 5-parted, “turning 
cireumsciss, the lobe vate, subulate -acuminate, petals rotundate ; 
st in 5 bundl o of numerous stamens ; filaments 
capillary, nearly as .. as the petals; capsule hardly exserted, 
bordered by the cireumsciss-annular calyx-limb ; seeds angular. 
pein Se Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. Jan. 
RHODAMNIA, Jack. 
Pelpasiabe ovoid or almost globular, not produced beyond the 
ovary, the limb 4-lobed, usually persistent. Petals 4, per ee 
Stamens numerous, free, in several rows; filaments fiitorsn —— : 
Noles l-celled, with several sm attached to ne 
e tas 5 aride iors; sae uw a plate, Ber 
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