Trophis. DIOECIA TETRANDRIA,. 761 
LT: aspera. Willd. iv. p. 793. 
Arboreous, Leaves oblong, unequally serrate, seabrous, 
Sans, Sakhotuka, 
Hind, and Beng, Syora, or Sheora. 
Tinda-parua, Rheed, Mal. i, t. 48. 
Streblus asper. Lourier, Cochin Ch. 734, and 754. 
Achymus pallens, Solander, in the Banksian Herbarium, 
Teling. Barinka. 
Is generally shrubby, though sometimes it grows to bean 
ill-looking, scraggy, crooked small tree ; is common every 
where in India. Flowers in the cold season. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, unequally serrate, 
or crenulate, hard, very rough; about two inches long by 
_ one broad. Mae, ment axillary, globular, short-pedun- 
cled, one, or two. Flowers minute, sessile, greenish-yellow, 
from ten to fourteen from the small globular spike, or ament. 
Calyx or corol four-leaved ; leaflets orbicular, spreading. 
Female flowers on a separate plant. Peduncles frbm one 
to five, axillary, short, one-flowered. Calyx or corol as in 
the male, permanent. Germ ovate, one-celled, with one 
ovulum attached to the top of the cella little on one side of 
the origin of the short style, which soon divides into two fili- 
form, rough, tapering stigmas, Berry of the size of a pea, 
nearly round,.smooth ; when ripe yellow, crowned with the 
remaining style on one side of the vertex, one-celled. Seed 
single, round. Integuments two, both thin, but uncommonly 
distinct, Perisperm none. Embryo conform to the seed, 
curved, greenish. Cotyledons two, very unequal, the largest 
being nineteen twentieths of the whole embryo, on one side 
divided half way through into two lobes, The male cotyle- 
don is hid between the lobes of the larger one. Plumula 
two-lobed. Radicle sub-cylindric, curved, superior, with its 
apex immediately under the remaining style. 
The leaves of this plant are employed by the natives to po- 
lish ivory ; the wood is used only for fuel. The berries are 
greedily eaten by birds. ) saree 
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