Cornus.| “CORNACER. 545 
2. M. tomentosa, Endl.—A tree (90—100+40—50+4 6—9), 
probably evergreen, all softer parts more or less puberulous ; bark } _ 
in. thick, dark-grey, covered with small pustules ; cut greenish pale- 
brown ; leaves more or less oblique, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 
on a pubescent soon glabrescent petiole 1-14 in. long, shortly acu- 
minate, simple or sometimes 4-5-lobed, 5-8 in. long, membranous, 
5-6-nerved at the base, above along the nerves and beneath all over 
shortly puberulous ; flowers conspicuous, white, turning yellowish, 
i joi i racted 
many as petals; ments short, compressed, ovate-oblong, very 
villous ; anthers all along the connective villous and bearded to- 
wards the apex; disk minutely puberulous; style nearly an inch 
long, glabrous, capitately 4-lobed. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban.—Fl. March, Apr.— 
s:1.—SS.=Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood pale brown, close-grained, with a silvery lustre, rather 
closely fibrous. 
CORNUS, L. : 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube turbinate, urceolate or 
bell-shaped. Petals 4, oblong or ovate, valvate. Stamens 4; fila- 
ments subulate or filiform; anthers oblong. Disk cushion-like or 
obsolete. Ovary 2- very rarely 3-celled, the cells 1-ovuled; style 
filiform or columnar, with a capitate or truncate stigma. upe 
fleshy or sappy, containing a bony 2-celled putamen. Seeds com- 
pressed, the testa membranous. Albumen fleshy.—Trees or shrubs, 
rarely undershrubs, with opposite or very rarely alternate simple 
leaves. Flowers small, in dichotomously branched cymes or in 
nude or involucrate heads. 
|e _—- Wall.—An evergreen (?) tree (20—30 + (?)4+14 
—3), all parts glabrous; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, taper- 
ing into a thick glabrous petiole $-4 in. long or somewhat longer, 
acuminate, entire, 3-5 in. long, almost coriaceous, glabrous, beneath 
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