483 CXXXVL URTICACE®. (J. D. Hooker)  [Pseudostreblu* 
KnasraA Mrs.; Bor panee River, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. 6 T.T. . 
A small tree; shoots and inflorescence puberulous. Leaves 4-6 in., coriaceous, 
glabrous, drying brown, rather shining on both surfaces; petiole 3—-§ in.; stipules 
ovate-lanceolate. Male fl. about i in. diam.; buds globose; fem. much larger. 
Fruit 1 in. diam. or more. 
8. TAXOTROPHIS, Blume. 
Spinous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; stipules small, 
connate, caducous. Flowers dicecious, axillary, males in short spikes 
racemes or fascicles, fem. 1-4 on a long peduncle. Mare Fu. Sepals 4, 
valvate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode with a dilated top. FEM. 
FL. Sepals 4, imbricate, persistent and shorter than the fruit. Ovary ovoid, 
straight, at length very oblique; style 2-partite, at length lateral; ovule 
pendulous. Fruit obliquely subglobose, fleshy on one side and at the base, 
apex thin. Seed oblique, albumen 0; cotyledons broad, fleshy, crumpled, 
radicle upcurved.—Species 3-4, Ceylon and Malayan. 
T. zeylanica, Thwaites Enum. 264; glabrous, leaves rhombic or 
trapezoidly elliptic obtusely acuminate serrate. Beddome Forester’s Man. 
222, t. 26, f£. 3. Diplocos zeylanica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 215. Epi- 
carpurus zeylanicus, Thwaites im Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. (1852) 1, 3, t. 2; 
Wight le. t. 1962 (the lower left-hand figure). Streblus zeylanica, Kur 
For. Fl. ii. 464. 
Burma, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4659). CEYLON, near Kandy, Thwaites. 
A small evergreen tree or shrub ; spines short or long, straight ; shoots puberulon. 
Leaves , 9-4 in., rhomboidly oblong or lanceolate, obtusely caudate, glabrous ; petiole 
s15 in.; stipules lanceolate. Male fl. minute, shortly pedicelled, subracemose, 
paberulous. Fruit size of a pea, subtended by the small lanceolate rather enlarged 
sepals. 
9. PHYLLOCHLAMYS, Bureau. 
Glabrous spinous trees or shrubs; sap milky. Leaves alternate, pennr 
nerved; stipules lateral, free. Flowers dicecious, males in short axı lary 
involucrate spikes or clusters; fem. solitary, peduncled. MALE FL. Sep p^ 
3-4, ovate, imbricate. Stamens 3-4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode dilated 4 
the top. , FEM. FL. Sepals 3-4, accrescent and foliaceous in fruit. ud 
straight in flower, at length very oblique; style 2-partite, at length latera j 
ovule pendulous. Fruit small, shorter than the sepals, obliquely globose o 
ovoid, subfleshy below, with a very thin umbonate apex. Seed oblique, albums" 
very scanty; embryo globose, one cotyledon very large 2-tid enclosing t 
smaller, radicle upcurved.—Species 2 or 3, Indian and Malayan. 
1. P. spinosa, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 218; leaves subsessile elipti- 
cally rhombic or subtrapezoid remotely serrate ‘on one or both marg 
or subentire. Brandis For. Fl. 411; Bedd. For. Man. 220, t. 26, f e 
Epicarpurus spinosus, Wight Ic. 1962 (upper and right-hand figures), at 
timorensis, Dene. Herb. Timor. 171, t. 21. Taxotrophis Roxburghit, Biwi is 
Mus. Bot. ii. 78; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 279; Thw. Enum. 264. Tropa , 
spinosa, Rowb. Fl. Ind. iii. 762 (not of Willd.). T. taxiformis, Spreng. 5r 
ni. 902. T. taxoides, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 368. T. P Heyneana, Watt- 
Cat. 4642. Streblus taxoides, Kurz For. Fl ii. 465. 
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DeccAN PENINSULA; the Circars, Heyne; Courtallam, Wight. Borua ant r3 
AMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. CEYLON, in the dry districts. —DrsTRIB. Malay ^9 
