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pale-green, 1-2-flowered, exceeding the capsules, strongly nerved, the 
many nerves ending in long subulate hispid teeth. Capsules glab- 
Sosy cocci very thin, white. Seeds globose-ovoid, smooth, +; in. 
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Dehra Dun (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) and probably in many 
other localities within the area. Distrrs.: W. Himalaya from 
Kashmir to Kumaon up to 6,000 ft., and southwards from Bengal and. 
Bombay to S. India and Ceylon, extending to Arabia and Trop- 
Africa. 
16. TREWIA, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 423. 
Soft-wooded trees. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or orbi- 
cular ; entire ; base cordate, 3-5-nerved. Flowers rather large, 
dicecious, appearing before the leaves, apetalous and without a 
disk; males in lax lateral racemes, one to each bract ; females 
solitary on long peduncles or racemose. MALE fl. : Calye@ globose, 
splitting into 3-4 broad concave often reflexed segments. Stamens 
many, on aconvex receptacle, filaments free, anthers dorsifixed, 
oblong, the cefls parallel and contiguous. Pistillode none. Ferm. 
fi.: Sepals 3-5, broad, imbricate, caducous. Ovary 2-4-celled ; 
styles connate below, long, terete, entire, papillose throughout,. 
ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit 2-4-celled, indehiscent or open- 
ing loculicidally, endocarp crustaceous. Seeds ovoid, testa hard,, 
albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad and flat.—Species 2, one in India 
extending to Ceylon, the other apparently endemic in W. and 8. 
India. 
T. nudifiora, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1193 (Trevia) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. in, 
837 ; Brandis For. Fl. 443; Ind. Trees 590; F. B. I. v, 423; 
Watt E. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2,), 353 ; Gamble Man. 617 ; 
Prain Beng. Pl. 948 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 614. 
A medium-sized deciduous tree with a smooth grey bark. Young 
shoots and the leaves beneath and the inflorescence clothed with 
cottony wool or sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-7 in. long, 
ovate, acuminate, glabrous and bright-green above ; base rounded or 
cordate, 3-5-nerved ; petioles 1-3 in. long; stipules minute, acute, 
caducous. Mate flowers }-} in. in diam., pale-green, arranged in 
pendulous racemes 3-8 in. long; pedicels short, slender, horizontal. 
Sepals valvate, concave. Stamens many. Fem. flowers solitary or 
2-3 together, on long peduncles. Sepals 3-5, imbricate, caducous, 
