Phyllochlamys.  oxxxvi. vmmicAcEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 489 
A small evergreen gnarled tree; spines long, strong, often leafy and flowering. 
Leaves 2-4 im., nerves 6-8 pair, nearly straight; petiole à in.; stipules acute. 
Bracts of small involucres short, imbricate. Fem. peduncles solitary or binate, 
bracteate at or below the middle. Fruiting sepals 4-1 in., lanceolate, acuminate. 
ruit size of a cherry.— Wight describes the fem. sepals as 5, but figures 4. . 
AR. P microphylla, Kurz l. c. ; shoots and spines puberulous, leaves 1-1} in. 
ovate to oblong obtuse mucronate crenate.—Irawaddi River in swampy forests, Kurz. 
2. P. Wallichii, King in Herb. Calcutt.; leaves elliptic-oblong or 
lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate quite entire or very obscurely 
toothed.—Erythroxyli fere facie, &c., Br. in Wall. Cat. 1519. 
PENANG, Porter, Curtis. PERAK, King’s Collector. . 
A thorny shrub or small tree, 10-15 ft.; branchlets quite glabrous. Leaves 
5-7 in, coriaceous, pale when dry, strongly reticulate between the nerves beneath ; 
petiole in. Male fl. in small globose sessile clusters, sparsely pubescent. Fruit 
j in. diam., sepals 4 in., oblong, obtuse.—In Wallich’s specimens some branchlets 
are clothed with ovate acute rigid imbricating bracts or scales wi long, which no 
doubt led to Brown's observation (facie Erythrozyli) in Herb. Wallich. 
10. STREBLUS, Lour. 
Unarmed shrubs or trees, juice milky. Leaves scabrid, alternate, penni- 
Dérved; stipules small, subulate. Flowers axillary, di- rarely moncacions, 
males in peduncled heads or spikes; fem. peduncled, solitary or A 
together. MALE rr. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. 
Pistillode dilated at the top. Frm. FL. bracteate. Sepals of male embracing 
ovary. Ovary straight, retuse; style central, arms very long ;, ova le 
pendulous. Fruit membranous, subglobose, not oblique, laxly clothe M 
€ persistent sepals. Seed globose, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo 
8'0bose, one cotyledon very large fleshy, enclosing the other which is very 
small and the upeurved radicle.—Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 
l. S. asper, Lour. FI. Cochin. ii. 615; scabrid, male fl. capitate. 
Bureau in DC. Po iL 218; Brand. For. Fl. 410; Kurz For. I n. 
64; Dalz, d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 240; Bedd. For. Man. 221, t. 26, f. 1; o 
FI. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 978, and Suppl. 171; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 326. 
Epicarpurus orientalis, Blume Bijd. 488; Wight Ic. t. 1961. E. [sn 
Steud. Nomencl. i. 556. Trophis aspera, Retz. Obs. v. 30 (excl. syn.) ; Ca A 
FI. Ind. iii. 761; Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot.i. (1834) 62, t. 121 ; Wali. we 
4640. T. cochinchinensis, Poir. Encycl. viii. 123. T. aculeata, Roth Nov. 
Sp. 868. Achymus patens, Soland. mss.—Rheede Hort. Mal. i. t. 48. 
Drier parts of India; from RoHILKUND, eastward and southward to Larne ini rr 
ochin Chie the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. CEYLON; common.—DisTRIB. Malay H 
ochin China China, Siam. 
A rigid shrub or gnarled tree; branchlets tomentose or pubescent. | Leaves 
M. ^^ rigid, elliptic, rhomboid, ovate or obovate, irregularly toothed ; Vanele short 
"d heads globose, solitary or 2-nate, sometimes androgynous; pedu 
j Í i it pisiform; perian th 
yellow flowers minute. "Fem. fl. longer peduncled. Fruit pisi pe 
2. S. mitis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 464; glabrous, male fl. in simple or 
branched spikes, 
Ava; on the Kakh i . 
I do not know this hug Ma Ki Karz describes as an evergreen tree with leaves 
