Trophis. dioecia tetrandria. 761 



1. T. nspera. Willd. iv. p. 793. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong-, unequally serrate, scabrous. 



Sa7is. Sakhot?/ka. 



Hind, and Beni/. Syora, or Sbeora. 



Tinda-parua. Rheed. Mai. i. t. 48. 



Streblus asper. Lourier. Cocldn Ch. 734. and 754. 



Acbymus pallens. Solander, in the Banksian Herbarium. 



Telinr/. Barinka. 



Is generally shrubby, though sometimes it grows to be an 

 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 lon^ by 

 one broad. Male. Anient axillary, globular, short-ped un- 

 cled, one, or two. Floivers minute, sessile, greenish-yellow, 

 from ten to fourteen from the small globular spike, or ament. 

 Calyx or corol four-leaved ; leaflets orbicular, spreading. 

 Female floivers on a separate plant. Peduncles from 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 cell a little on one side of 

 the origin of the short style, which soon divides into two fili- 

 form, rough, tapering stigmas. SejTi/ 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. 



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