Sirebius.i Uvticace^. lOI 



globose, endosperm scanty, cotyledons very unequal, the 

 larger 2-fid., enclosing the smaller, radicle up-curved. — Sp 

 2 or 3 ; I in Fl. B. Ind. 



P. spinosa. Bureau hi DC. Prod. xvii. 218 (1873). Gongrotu, S. 



Taxotrophis Roxburghii., Bl., Thw. Enum. 264. C. P. 1074, 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 488. Wight, Ic. t. 1962 [Epicarpiinis spinosus). Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. anal. 26, f. 2. 



A small, gnarled, evergreen tree ; branches stout, woody, 

 and spines strong, striate ; bark pale ; 1. subsessile, 2-4 in., 

 obovate or oval-oblong or subrhombic, caudate or acuminate, 

 remotely coarsely serrate or subentire, base acute rounded or 

 contracted and cordate, veins 5-7 pairs, not strong ; male 

 clusters subglobose, | in. diam. ; invol. of many lanceolate 

 acuminate bracts much longer than the fl. ; sep. pubescent, 

 nearly orbicular ; fem. fl., long pedicelled, fruiting sep. J-i in., 

 caudate-acuminate, base cordate ; achene size of a cherry ; 

 seed immersed in the tumid upper part of the achene which 

 is fleshy below the middle. 



Dry region; rather common. Mineri; Haragama ; Nalande. Fl. 

 July-Sept.; male whitish, fem. green. 



S. India, Andaman Is., Burma, Malay Is. 



II. STREBI.US, Lour. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees, juice milky; 1. alt., scabrid, penni- 



veined; stip. subulate; fl. axillary, mono-dioecious, male minute 



in shortly ped. pisiform heads, fem. larger, solitary or 2-3 nate; 



male fl. subsessile, sep. 4, imbricate ; stam. 4, fil. inflexed in 



bud ; pistillode short, top dilated ; fem. fl. : — sep. 4, unequal, 



broad, concave ; ov. straight, styles 2, terminal, long, slender, 



ovule pendulous ; achene subglobose, enclosed in the accrescent 



Sep., pericarp thick ; seed globose, endosperm o, cotyledons 



very unequal, the larger fleshy enfolding the smaller, radicle 



upcurved. — Sp. 2, both in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. asper, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 615 (1790). G^ta-netul, S. 

 Patpiray, Pirasu, T. 



Tropins aspera, Retz., Moon, Cat. 88. Thw. Enum. 264. C. P. 2214. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 489. Wight, Ic. t. 1961 {Epicarpurus orientalis). Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. anal. 26, f. i. 



A shrub or small gnarled tree, unarmed ; branchlets pubes- 

 cent or tomentose ; 1. 1-3 in., ovate, obovate or rhomboid, 

 acute or acuminate, coarsely toothed from below the middle, 

 base acute, scaberulous on both surfaces, but especially 

 beneath, veins 4-6 pairs ; petiole yV-i in. ; male heads solitary 



