Macropanaz. | ARALIACER. 541 
a ; Styles 2, filiform, free from the base, the stigmas nearly 
inal. Fruits almost didymous, laterally compressed, coria- 
ceous ; . Pyrenees crustaceous or hard. Seeds compressed. Albumen 
ate.—Trees, with pinnately decompound leaves. Flowers um- 
bello, in racemes, forming terminal panicles. Pedicels not jointed. 
H. fragrans, Seem.; Brand. For. Fl. 249.—Ta-chan-sa.—A 
tree Het facies every remaining stunted in poor soils, leaf- 
less during H.S.., all parts glabrous; bark about an inch thick, smooth, 
grey ; cut sappy, pelecooroures leaves large, pinnately decompound, 
glabrous, the pinne at their forks usually supported by a pair of 
simple opposite tae leaflets variable in size, usually 4-5 in. long, 
ovate, on rather short, thick petiolules, acute or obtuse at the base, 
acuminate, entire, almost t coriaceous ; flowers small, whitish tomen- 
tose, umbelled, the umbels collected in racemes, forming terminal, 
Has.—Frequent in the leaf-shedding forests all over Burma from Chitta- 
gong a Ava down to Tenasserim, ascending into the gaa fa forests to 3,000 
ft. elevation —Fl. Jan.-Feb.; Fr. May-June.—l.—SS.=petrophilous and A 
Dil. 
Remarxs.—Wood light brown or grey, rather heavy, fibrous, but close- 
grained, very perishable. 
MACROPANAX, Mig. 
Calyx-teeth 5, distinct. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5; fila- 
ments filiform ; anthers ovate or oblong. Disk thick, poe like, 
or almost conical, in the centre produced into the style-column. 
Ovary 2-ce ; styles united in a column, the stigmas terminal. 
Fruits aia globular or ovoid, fleshy; pyrenes chartaceous or 
crustaceous. Seeds rather thick, “compressed 0 m the back, flat or 
concave in front. Albumen ruminate or a pon wey coo eniig aul 
shrubs, thorny or unarmed, with digitate leaves. Flowers ae 
mous, umbelled, or rarely in heads, forming large panicles. Pedicels 
eer at ae 
1, M. oreophilum, M ig.—An evergreen tree (3 0—40+20—30 
+2—3), all an glabrous ; leaves digitately 5-9-foliolate, glabrous, 
on a long petiole ; leaflets lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-6 in. long, 
on rather long petiolules, obtuse or acute at the base, acuminate, 
serrate-toothed ; flowers small, slenderly pedicelled, forming rusty= 
puberulous racemes collected into large panicles. 
a e damp and drier hill forests of the Martaban hills east 
of go Belge Sep oay 6,000 it. elevation; also Ava, Kakhyen hills. —s.—SS. 
=Metam. 
