lOO Urticacecs. \Phyllochlamys, 



g. TAXOTROPHZS, B/. 



Spinous trees or shrubs ; 1. alt., penniveined ; stip. small, 

 connate ; fl. dicEcious, male sessile, minute, globose, crowded 

 in short axillary spikes, fem. pedicelled in axillary and 

 terminal few-fid. racemes ; male fl. : — sep. 4, orbicular, valvate; 

 stam. 4, fil. inflexed in bud ; pistillode short, stout ; fem. fl. : — 

 sep, 4, persistent ; ov. gibbously oblong, with the ovarian 

 cavity on one side, styles 2, rather long, simple, spreading ; 

 ovule pendulous ; fr. gibbously oblong, fleshy, lower half 

 solid, upper with a rounded summit and the styles lateral ; 

 seed immersed nearly horizontally in the upper part of the fr.^ 

 endosperm o, cotyledons crumpled, radicle up-curved. — Sp. 

 3 or 4 ; I in F/. B. Ind. 



T. zeylanica, Thw. Enum. 264 (1861). 



Epicarpiirus zeylanica^ Thw. in Kew journ. Bot. iv. i. Diploca^ 

 zeylanica, Bureau in DC. Prod. xvii. 215. C. P. 2213. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 488. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. t. 11. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 

 anal. 26, f. 3. 



A shrub or small much-branched tree, 8-10 ft., sparingly 

 spinous, tips of branchlets hairy ; spines long, straight ; bark- 

 brown ; 1. 1^-3 in., lanceolate or rhombic-lanceolate, obtusely 

 acuminate, serrate, narrowed into the acute or narrowly cor- 

 date base, or into the short hairy petiole, flaccid ; male spikes 

 pale yellow, \-h in., shortly ped. ; bracts minute ; fem. racemes 

 about I in., fl. minute, green, ped. thickened upwards, elongat- 

 ing often to I in. after flg. ; stigmatic villi brown ; seed 

 globose. 



Low country, 1-2000 ft. ; rather rare. Kurunegala ; Haragama ;. 

 Hantane. Fl. July. Male yellow, fem. green. 

 Also in Burma. 



10. PHVZ.ZiOC»XiA»IVS, Bureau. 



Spinous, quite glabrous trees or shrubs, juice milky ; 1. 



alt, penniveined ; stip. lateral, free ; fl. dioecious, male minute 



in axillary involucrate sessile pisiform heads, fem. much 



larger, but solitary, pedicelled, not involucrate ; male fl. : — 



sep. 3-4, obtuse, imbricate ; stam. 3-4, fil. inflexed in bud ; 



pistillode short, top dilated ; fl. fem. : — sep. 3-4, lanceolate, 



greatly enlarged and foliaceous in fr. ; ov. subglobose, at length 



oblique, styles 2, lateral, ovule pendulous ; fr. a gibbous fleshy 



achene, much shorter than the sep., subglobose, top umbo- 



nate ; seed obliquely placed in the upper part of the achene,. 



