Decaspermum. | MYRTACER. 475 
mbryo horse-shoe-shaped, with a long radicle and very small 
cotyledons.—Shrubs or small trees, with opposite 3- or tripli- 
nerved leaves. Flowers usually small, in axillary short racemes or 
clusters. Bractlets small, deciduous. 
Has.—Tenasserim, from Moulmein down to Mergui.—Fl. Aug. 
DECASPERMUM, Forst. 
circular, the radicle long, the cotyledons short and linear.—Small 
eav Flowers small 
2 lin. long, sharply acuminate, tapering at the base, 1-3 in. long, thin 
coriaceous, glabrous above, beneath, while very young, appressed 
short pubescent sometimes silky and silvery-white racemes in the 
axils of the leaves and much shorter than them, and usually col- 
lected in a more or less leafy panicle at the end of the branch- 
lets ; bracts linear-subulate ; calyx hemispherical, about 3 lin. long, — 
