614 CXV. EUPHOBBIACEiE. 



1. Trewia nudiflora, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1193 (Trevia). 

 A large deciduous tree ; bark smooth, grey ; wood while, soft ; young 

 shoots and sometimes leaves beneath and infloresceuce clotlied with 

 cottony wool, at other times nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, 3-7 by 

 2-5^ in., ovate, entire, acuminate, glabrous and bright green above, 

 base cordate, 3-5-nerved; petioles 1 3 in. long; stipules minute, acute, 

 soon falling. Elowers dioecious, the males in racemes 3-8 in. long, the 

 females on long peduncles. Male flowers : Flowers g-^ in. in diam. 

 Sepals valvate, concave ; pedicels slender, short, horizontal. tStameus 

 numerous. Female flowebs solitary or 2-3 together ; peduncles 

 reaching 4 in. long. Sepals 3-5, broad, imbricate, caducous. Ovary 

 woolly ; styles |-| in. long, yellow. Fruit almost woody, globose, 

 1-1-^ in. ill diam., tomentose when young. Seeds rounded on the back, 

 slightly angular on the face, smooth and polished, dark-brown. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 423; Grab. Cat. p. 185; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 231 ; Wiglit, Icon, 

 t. 1870 (male flowers onlv) ; Bedel. Flor. Sylvat. t. 281 (male flowers 

 only); Trim. Fl. Cevl. v'. 4, p. 61 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 314 : 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1809) p. 372 ; Praiu, Beng. PL 

 p. 948 : Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 76. — Flowers : Dec- 

 Mar. Veen. Petdri. 



KoNKAN : iu moist forests, often along the banks of rivers and streams, Talhot ; 

 Wari Country DalzcUl ; Banda in tlie Wari Country, Woodrow. — Distrim. Tlir(ni2li- 

 out the hotter parts of India ; Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, Java. 



2. Trewia polycarpa, Bentli. in Gen. PI. v. 3 (1880) p. 318. 

 A tree. Leaves sul^opposite 6-8 in. long and often as broad as long, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, reticulately veined, 

 base cordate, 5-nerved ; petioles 1^-3 in. long. Female racemes lateral, 

 many-flow'ered, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels short, stout. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 styles long, papillose all over. Fruit | iu. long, globosely ovoid, densely 

 tomentose; pericarp crustaceous, loculicidal. Seeds j by 1 in., roimded 

 at both ends and on the back with a nearly flat face, smooth. Male 

 flowers not seen ; the specimens in Herb. Kew. are all female. J-'I. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 424 ; Taib. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 315 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) ;>. 372. Treivia nndi/Jora, Wight, Icon. t. 1871 (the 

 female flowers only); Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 281 (the fcmali' flowers 

 only). 



KoNKAN : S(oc/cs'., Law\. Talbot. — Distuib. India (\\ . Peninsula), apparently 

 endemic. 



30. MALLOTUS, Loin-. 



Trees or shinibs, Jieaves opposite or altt^rnale, entire, toothed or 

 3-lobod, pennincrved or 3-7-nerved, sometimes peltate often gland- 

 dotted beneath and sometimes with glandular aivas at the base above. 

 Flowers ditxieious or monoecious, small or minute, in axillary or terminal 

 simple or branched spikes or racemes, the; males faseicleil, (he females 

 solitary in the bracts. Perianth simple. Male flowers : Calyx globose 

 or ovoid, 3-5-partite ; lobes valvate. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens 

 numerous, crowded on a flat or convex receptacle ; lilaments free ; 

 anthers small, dorsifixed, the cells globose or shortly oblong, parallel, 

 adnata to tiie wide connective, often discrete. I'istillode or minute. 

 Female flowers : Calyx spathaceous or valvately 3-6-Iobed or 



