URTICACE.E. 369 



Trcma orientalis Bliime ; F.B.I, v 484, IV 3 ; Charcoal 

 tree. A small or large tree. Leaves ovate acute lop- 

 sided, finely serrate almost all round to the rounded or 

 cordate base : nerves joined by numerous cross-veins : 

 upper surface scabrid : lower white with silvery pubes- 

 cence or tomentum. Drupe Yd inch. 



Nilgiris : at Kotagiri and below. Not at Ootacamund. 

 Pulneys : at lower levels only. Fyson 1760, 1657, 3095. 

 Bourne 214. 



Gen. Dist. Lower hills of India, soulh of Nepal, Weslern Ghats, 

 Ceylon. 



MORE^. F.B.I. 136, tribe 4. 

 Mulberry, etc. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with as a rule milky sap, and 

 small unisexual flowers with the characteristics of the 

 family (p. 366) but the stamens bent down inwards in 

 bud, with reversed anthers, straightening suddenly and 

 ejecting the pollen with a jerk as the flower opens. 



PHYLLOCHLAMYS. f.b.i. 136 ix. 



Spiny shrubs and trees with entire penninerved 

 leaves and small unisexual, dioecious flowers : the male 

 in short involucral clusters ; the female solitary, stalked. 

 Sepals of male three or four, inflexed in bud, imbricate : 

 of female, three or four, which in fruit are accrescent 

 and leafy. Fruit small, shorter than the sepals with 

 one seed. 



Species 3 : 2 in India, i in Africa. 



Phyllochlamys spinosa Bureau ; F.B.I. v 488, IX I. 

 A tree up to 40 feet, amongst the highest in the shola, 

 branching at acute angles. Smallest branches armed 

 with slender axillary spines I inch long : older shoots 

 ^ inch thick with thick spines 2 by ^ inch at the 

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