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h2. TJilUho^ Biirm. Upper Burma (a large, tree, Smaleb). Shan liills 4,000 ft., Collett. 

 Similar to 8, but 1. broader, pet. 1 in. long, btaminodeb slightly liairy. Species 1-4 are 

 ( lo^♦^ly allied. 



B. Fl. small, corolla less than \ in. long, filaments as long as or longer tlian 

 anthers. 

 5. S. longepetiolatum, King & Prain, Ann. Clard. Calc. ix. 50 1. 63 {Gluta lonr/ipetiolcda, 



Fig. 162. Sideroxylon tomentosuni, Roxb. 4. 



Kurz F. PL i. 310). Andamans, Xarkondam. A ttaran forests. A, considerable tree, 

 blade 6-24, pet. 1^-3 in. long, see. n. prominent beneath. Fl. fascicles on axillary 

 racemes 1-2 in., pedicels blender, pubescent, \ in. long. 



(i. S. ferrugineum, Hook. & Arn.— Syn. ^S*. attenuatmn^ A. DC ; Wight Ic. t, 1590. 

 Mergui, Malay Penins. and Archijj. South China. Young shoots, young 1. and 

 pedicels rusty pubescent, 1. coriaceous shining, from a cuneate bass elliptic or obovate, 

 blade 3-6, pet. \ in. Pedicels ^, corolla -^ in. long. 7. S. grandifolitim, "Wall. Kliasi 

 hills. Martaban, hills between Heeling and Sitang rivers. A large tree (Elurzj, 1. 

 crowded at the extremities of the thick branchlets, glabrous, chartaceous, from 

 oblanceolate to obovate, blade 6-10, pet. h in. Fl. greenish, almost sessile, usually 

 on the old wood below the 1. in dense clusters on wartlike tubercles above the leaf- 

 scars, corolla ^j in. long. 



8. S. (?) Gamble!, C. B, Clarke, Sikkim up to 4,000 ft. A lai^ge tree, I elliptic, blade 

 5-7, pet. 1 in. long, sec. n. very prominent beneath, fr. ellipsoid, li in. long. PI. un- 

 known, genus uncertain. 



2. CHRYSOPHYLLUM, Linn. ; PI. Brit. Ind. iii. 535. 

 Species 60, chiefly in tropical America. 



C. Roxburghii, G. Don ; Bedd. PL Sylv.t.236. The Star Apple, Yern. 

 Tarsi^ Dongrima^ Mar. ; Hali^ Kan. ; Kdt Utijppa^ Tain. ; Fala, Mai. 



A middle-sized, at times a large evergreen tree, branchlets and often nerves 

 beneath clothed with fine rnsty hairs. L. coriaceous, shining, elliptic-oblong, 

 abruptly acuminate, blade 3-7 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, sec. n. oo, 

 parallel, i-esembling Calophyllum. PL small, greenish-white, in dense axillary 

 clusters, pedicels slender, |- in. long, glabrous or rusty-pubescent, calyx-seg- 

 ments 5, obtuse, corolla broadly campanulate, lobes short, rounded, ciliate, 

 ovary 5-6-celled, villous. Berry rusty-tomentose when young, yellow when 

 ripe, edible, 5~6-ridged, obscurely when fx*esh, sharply when dry. Seeds 5-6, 

 compressed, testa coriaceous. 



Assam, Khasi hills, Pegu. Western Ghats from the Konkan southwards. Pi- 

 March -May. Ceylon moist region. Malay Penins. and Archip. 



