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A NOTE ON THE IllMALAY AN 
Bark: — The bark is covered in B. cannahina with a short rough 
scaly tomentum ; the young shoots have a fairly shaggy tomentum. In 
D . Sureil the bark is smooth with many distinct longitudinal lenticels. 
Tomentum on the young shoots is much less shaggy. 
Inflorescence : — The flowers of D. cannahina are in sessile braeteate 
heads terminating the branches, very fugacious, the slightest shake of the 
tree sending down a shower of even fresh flowers ; the foliaceous bracts 
surround the flowers like a collar. In I). Sureil the flowers are both 
terminal and borne on the older branchlets, much less numerous, and 
more persistent, usually well away from the foliage. 
Flower : — In B. cannahina the pedicels are usually J inch long ; tube 
t 3 0 inch long, stout, purple, densely covered with silky hairs easily visible 
to the naked eye ; segments of limb ovate obtuse, reflexed, somewhat 
crinkled or corrugated, bluish-purple to a rosy white ; bracts broad, lax 
and silky, § inch long. In B. Sureil the pedicels average -j* 0 inch long, 
the tube ^ inch, more slender; the whole perianth a dull ivory white, 
almost glabrous, a fine pubescence appearing under the lens ; segments of 
limb narrow, lanceolate, subacuminate and only slightly reflexed ; bracts 
like scales or awns, narrow acuminate, fairly stiff, \ in. long. The flowers 
of B. cannahina are distinctly oblique to the pedicel and slightly zygo« 
morph ie. 
Ovary : — In B. cannahina the ovary is somewhat acute at the apex 
and with a relatively small stigma ; in B. Stireil the ovary is less acute 
at the apex and the stigma is much larger, almost filling the tube. 
Fruit 1 The fruits of both are figured in the accompanying 
plate. In the second week of February the fruit of B. Sureil is 
quite ripe, of a reddish-orange reminding one of rose-hips before they 
take on their more brilliant winter colouring. At this time the fruit of 
B. cannahina is quite green and immature. When later we col- 
lected it in June in the Kulhait Valley (7 — 8,000 ft.) we found it quite 
black when ripe. It does not show any red or orange tint during the 
ripening stage, the change of colour is that of ripe grapes, the purple 
gradually overcoming the green and then darkening in tint. 
From the above there are evidently ample differences between the 
two species. Sir George King on a sheet in the Calcutta- Herbarium 
collected at Sureil has indicated his opinion by a distinct f var * attached 
to the name Baphne papyracca Wall. ; Gamble on No. 7093 collected at 
Sureil has a note showing that he dissociated it from the high-level plant, 
and later still H. II. Haines on a sheet collected by him in British Bhutan, 
altitude 6,000 ft., notes: — “ Baphne cannahina Wall. var. This white 
flowered scentless variety with no involucre is probably a distinct species.” 
