- Duabanga. | LYTHRARIER. : 525 
48—5), shedding leaves in H.S.,all softer parts shortly and softly 
ubescent ; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, on a very short pubescent 
petiole, rounded at the base, more or less acuminate, firmly membran- 
ous, 2-4 in. long, minutely velvety above, shortly and almost greyish 
pubescent or puberulous beneath ; flowers small, whitish, on slender 
pubescent pedicels in peduncled cymes, forming softly, but shortly 
pubescent contracted panicles at the end of the branchlets; calyx 
in bud turbinate, densely and shortly greyish puberulous, 4-5- or 6- 
ribbed, the ribs almost wing-like, lobes as many as ribs, triangular, - 
acute, as long as the tube; petals minute, not longer than the calyx- 
lobes, cuneate-lanceolate, acute; anthers purple; capsule oblong, 
about $ an in. long, mucronulate, 4-6-valved. 
Haxs.—Frequent in the tropical forests along the slopes of the Pegu Yomah, 
rather rare in those of Martaban.—Fl. June. SiS. Metam. 
ReMaRKs.—Wood pale brown, rather heavy, somewhat close-grained, rather 
coarsely fibrous. Not much used. O'= 40 pd. ‘A 
- DUABANGA, Ham. 
Calyx-tube broadly turbinate, adnate to the base of the ovary, 
4-7-lobed, the lobes very thick, spreading. Petals 4-7, shortly 
clawed. Stamens numerous, inserted in a single row round a 
perigynous ring; filaments incurved, thick-filiform. Ovary 4-8- 
celled, with a hollow axis and very numerous ascending ovules in 
each cell irregularly attached to the very thick placentas; style 
elongate, flexuose, with a capitately 4-8-lobed stigma. Capsule 
wit 
leaves. Flowers usually large, in pendulous terminal panicles. 
1. D. sonneratioides, Buch.—Myouk-gne.—A tree (80—100+ 
50—80 + 10—12), shedding leaves in H.S., all parts glabrous, the 
branchlets 4-cornered and drooping ; bark dark grey, transversely 
wrinkled and fissured ; cut dryish, pale coloured ; leaves oblong to 
ovate-oblong, rounded or almost cordate at the base, on a short 
singly or by threes, on short peduncles and forming a short, droop- 
ing, glabrous panicle at the end of the branchlets ;- petals cuneate- 
obovate, crispate along the borders, about an inch long; capsule the 
uent in the tropical and mixed forests all over Burma from 
a 
Has.—F : 
Chittagong and Ava down to Tenasserim, rather rare in the 
-Prome.—Fl. March-Apr. ; Fr. May.—l & s: 1.—SS.—=Metam. SiS., ete. 
he dry districts of 
