Homatium. | ‘SAMYDACER. 531 
dotted leaves. Flowers in axillary spikes or racemes or in terminal 
panicles, : 
% Stamens solitary and opposite the petals. 
© Flowers about 2 lin. in diameter. 
Ovary villous; leaves coriaceous, tomentose or puberulous beneath ; 
flowers tomentose, sessile ; racemes robust, tomentose , . 4. tomentosum. 
Ovary villous; leaves thin chartaceous, pubescent on the nerves; 
flowers tomentose, shortly pedicelled; racemes pubescent, 
er’. . eetee ° . . . . . H. Griffithianum, 
O Flowers about a line in diameter. 
Oo 
All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous. . - +» A. minutiflorum. 
> Stamens by 2 or more, opposite the petals, All parts , 
quite glabrous. 
Ovary glabrous; racemes slender, glabrous ; stamens by twos. A. fetidum. 
Ovary tomentose ; flowers longish pedicelled, in divaricate terminal 
panicles; stamens by threes . . ‘ : . . + A Schlichii, 
1. H. tomentosum, Bth—Wyouk-chaw—A tree (80—90+4 40 
—50+8—10), leafless in H.S., the branches horizontal, all softer 
_ parts more or less pubescent or tomentose ; bark very thin, quite 
smooth, green-herbaceous below the white secedent epidermis ; 
leaves broadly obovate to obovate-oblong, on a very short thick 
petiole, blunt or apiculate, more or less repand-crenate, coriaceous, 
3-5 in. long, glabrous above, beneath more or less puberulous or 
_ tomentose, strongly parallel-nerved; flowers minute, greenish, al- 
st sessile, in small clusters, forming robust, tawny or whitish 
tomentose racemes in the axils of the leaves and usually much longer 
than them ; calyx-tube short, conical, tomentose ; lobes 5 or 6, linear- 
almos 
oblong ; petals as many an t conform with the calyx. 
lob ) 
Has.—Common in the mixed forests from Chittagong, Pegu, and Martaban 
down to Arracan, rare in Prome.—Fl. Fr. Noy.-Jan.—1.—_S$.— wo S28. 
RemarxKs.—Wood light yellow, turning pale to greyish brown, very hea’ 5 
very close-grained, but of unequal fibre, rather soft, takes very fine polish. a 
=56 pd.—Used for teeth of harrows. Good for furniture. 
2. H. Griffithianum, Kz.—A small tree, all younger parts 
softly tawny-pubescent ; leaves oboval to obovate-oblong, on 
short, but slender densely-pubescent petioles, apiculate or shortly 
acuminate, especially towards the point more or less coarsely repand- 
toothed, thin chartaceous, while young pubescent all over, when 
adult, especially on the nerves, pubescent or pilose; flowers yel- 
lowish white, small, about 3 lin. in omnia tS short. oo 
pedicels, soli or more generally by 2 or 3, forming simple, slen- 
er, densely pest Seon aati saslinien or racemose panicles in the 
