1. Phtllochlamys.] 125. MORACE.E. 



female solitary, peduncled. Tepals 3-4 ovate imbricate in the male, 

 lanceolate accrescent and foliaceous in the female. Pistillode dilated 

 at top. Ovary straight in flower, finally very oblique with the 

 2-partite style lateral. Fruit included in the perianth, obliquely 

 globose or ovoid, pericarp sub-fleshy below, very thin above and 

 finally 2-valved. .Seed oblique, testa thin, albumen very scanty. 

 Embryo very large fleshy globose, one cotyledon larger 2-fid enclosing 

 the smaller, radicle upcurved. 



1. P. spinosa, Bur. Syn. Trophis spinosa, Roxb. ; Jhumpuri, Or. ; 

 Putkuli (Mayurbhanj). 

 A small tree or shrub with the branchlets often terminating in a 

 sharp thorn, sometimes with a line of pubescence on one side. Leaves 

 rhomboidly elliptic or somewhat obovate acuminate, coarsely irre- 

 gularly toothed towards the apex, 2-4" long, glabrous, not dotted, 

 base minutely cordate on the petiole, sec. n. 8-10 with many weaker 

 intermediate looped or united into an intramarginal one. Petiole 

 •1" puberulous or pubescent. Stipules lanceolate about as long. 

 Male heads ovoid -lo" long, sessile; involucral bracts many imbricate 

 with strong mid -rib and sometimes mucronate. Female sometimes 

 two together with bracts at the base of the short pedicel, fruiting 

 tepals erect and conniving over the fruit, lanceolate acuminate from 

 a cordate base, attaining 1" long. Fruit splitting into 2 valves when 

 quite ripe, obovoid -4" with short style and two very long stigmas 

 persistent on one side. 



Ranchi. very rave, ravines on the ghats near Bishanpur ! Cuttack ! Puri, fairly 

 frequent ! Angul, in ravines, rare ! Fl.. Fr. April- June. Evergi'een. 



2. STREBLUS, Lour. 

 Trees or shrubs, the juice sometimes onl}^ slightly milky. Leaves 

 scabrid penninerved or sub-3 -nerved at the base, stipules small, 

 subulate. Flowers di-, rarely mon-cecious, males in peduncled heads 

 axillary and from the leaf scars, females solitary or 2-4 together 

 axillary, peduncled, bracteate at base. Male tepals 4 connate at 

 base, imbricate, stamens isomerous, j)istillode dilated at the top. 

 Fem. tepals free imbricate, embracing the ovar3\ Ovary straight 

 with central long deeply 2-fid style with very long arms. Ovule 

 pendulous. Fruit with a membranous or thinly coriaceous pericarp 

 enclosed in the fleshy perianth. .Seed globose, testa membranous, 

 albumen 0. Embryo globose, one cotjdedon very large fleshy, 

 enclosing the small one, radicle upcurved. 



L S. asper, Lour. Kakasa (rough), Ote, Ripi chum, Hara-saijanc 

 Sukri-saijang, K. ; So : or, Ho. ; Sahra, S. ; Sihora, Th. ; Sara, 

 Or. ; Sora, H. 



A rigid much-branched shrub or small tree (where not browsed down) 

 with stiff very scabrid rhombic -elliptic or obovate leaves 2-4", very 

 shortly petioled. Male heads •25--3" diam. on 1-3-nate peduncles 

 nearly as long, or up to -5", bracts very small ovate under -05" long, 

 outer involucrate ; flowers 6-8, perianth about •!" long, tepals 

 connate below, one sometimes smaller than the others, stamens 



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