ea 
500 MYRTACER. [ Planchonia. 
REM. —Wood heavy, red-brown, close and even-grained, tough, strong 
and durable, ‘hiles fine polish. W= poo = 85 Used for gun-stocks, house. 
posts, planks, cart-framing, &c. Also good for - furniture and cabinotswork: 
ing, but too heavy. Bark ed for tanning. 
2. C, spherica, Roxb—A _leaf-shedding = tree ; leaves 
often EERE branches ; calyx pruinous, the tube about 4 in. Ce 
hemispherical, the limb 4- rarely 5-cleft, the lobes only 2 lin. long, 
rounded, thick ; petals 4, rarely 5, oblong-lanceolate, 1} in. long, 
bluntish, but appearing acute through the revolution of their mar- 
gins; outer stamens much longer, reduced to filaments, median 
cells with 6 vertical rows of ovules; berry spherical, the size of an 
orange, fibrous-fleshy, smooth, crowned by the calyx-limb ; seeds 
oblong, pale brown, somewhat co mpressed, smooth, about 4 in. 
long. 
Haz.—Mountains of Chittagong. —Fl. Apr.; Fr. July. 
PLANCHONIA, Bi. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, hardly or not produced beyond the ovary, 
the limb 4-cleft, imbricate i in.bud. Petals 4. Stamens numerous, 
in many rows, unit at the base in a ring or short cup, the inner- 
most series without anthers. Ovary crowned with an epigynous 
rows in each cell; style filiform with a "blunt cruciately i 
Seay 
Kot Totted leaves: Flowers rather small, S brasted at the base, in 
very short terminal racemes. 
1. P. valida, Bl—Ban-bway.—An evergreen tree (40—60+ 
oe 15—20+4—10), all —_ glabrous; leaves obovate to elliptically 
oblong, at the sinuate-acute base decurrent on the broad saiols of 
____ variable length (3-3 in.), rer saianeias or thin coriaceous, 3-7 
in, crenulate-serrate, glabrous, much and laxly net-veined, 
ially beneath ; flowers Speer sized, aul ce on very 
, forming a short terminal ; calyx almost 
y 8-cornered, about } in. Jong, the pre fi as long, 
