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Hab. Rare in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yomah, but frequent in those of Martaban and Tenasserim ; also 

 Chittagong. — Fl. Febr. ; Fr. Apr. Aug. 



Siphonodon, Griff. 



1. S. celastbintjs, Griff, in Macl. Calc. Journ. IV. 217. t. 14 ; Hf. 

 in Linn. Trans. XXII. t. 26 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 629. 



Hab. Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yomah and of Martaban. — Fl. Jan. to May. 



Salaeia, L. 



Conspectus of species. 



* Cymes peduncled and dichotomously branched, usually short. 



Branches terete ; pedicels thick, 6 — 8 lin. long ; sepals not ciliate ; filaments very short, 

 complanate and reflexed, 8. longifolia. 



Cymes 4 in. long ! divaricate, 8. Griffithii. 



Branches marked by decurrent lines and more or less angular ; pedicels about 4 lin. 

 long, slender, arising from the globose rusty -bracteoled ends of the cyme-branches ; 

 sepals fringed ; filaments nearly \ bin. long, terete and erect, S. tortuosa. 



* * Flowers springing from an axillary sessile tubercle or wart. 



x Flowers large ; petals about 3 — 4 lin. long. 



Pedicels 2 — 3 lin. thick ; leaves large, coriaceous, 8. grandiflora. 



x x Flowers minute or small, the petals less than 2 bines long. 



f Leaves turning brown or dark-coloured in drying. Filaments 

 very short and complanate. 

 Branchlets dark-brown, corky -lenticellate ; leaves entire ; sepals ciliate ; ovary cells 2- 



ovuled, S. verrucosa. 



Branchlets pale-coloured, sparingly lenticellate ; leaves serrate ; berries as large as a 



crab-apple, 2 — 3-seeded ; sepals not ciliate, S. Eoxburghii. 



f f Leaves turning yellowish or pale green in drying. 

 Petals clawed ; filaments terete, slender. 

 Petals about a line long, clawed ; pedicels as long or longer than the petiole ; berries 



1-seeded, S. prinoides. 



Petals sessile ; filaments very short and dilated. 



Pedicels few, short, 1 — 1 J lin. long, S. Jlavescens. 



Pedicels numerous, slender, longer than the petiole, S. multijlora. 



1. S. longifolia, Wall. PI. As. rar. III. 1832. 47. t. 2/8, non Hf. 

 cujus homonymum in S. Maingayanam est mutandum. — (S.Jtorihunda, 

 Wight 111. 1840. I. 134 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 62g). 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff. 885/1) ; Moulmein District (Fal- 

 coner). — Fr. Jan. 



JV. B— Lawson has a S. Griffithii (Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 628) to which he 

 ascribes divaricate cymes 4 in. long, but his brief phrase does not enable 

 me to form an idea of the plant. Can it be S. diandra, Miq. ? 



2. S. TOUTUOSA, Griff. Not Dicot. 471. t. 581. f. 2. 



