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XI.—TAXOTROPHIS AND BALANOSTREBLUS. 
J. Hutcurson. 
: » genus Taxotrophis (Urticaceae) was established by Blume 
in 1852, and included two species, a Javan plant, 7’. javanica, 
Bureau* based a new genus, Phyllochlamys, on 7’, Rowburghi. 
dn He Thwaites added T. zeylanica, founded on Epicarpurus 
sca ca, Thw., and in 1886 and 1913 Vidal and Elmer Bi ge 
on Streblus ‘macrophyllus, ume, from the Celebes. sg 
Gamble described in the Kew hari al oat triapiculata 
from specimens colle in Burma Robartaon, 
and o ro chin-China gathered bg Bien 
e 
Balanostreblus was described and figured by Kies in 1873. He 
quotes specimens under his B. ilicifolia from Chittagong (Hooker 
Thomson, No. and from Ava, Burma (J. An oe 
Through the kindness of Major Gage, it has been es 
e ine the material preserved in the Calcutta Herbari 
consists of the Chittagong specimen (of whic ere is more 
ple material at Kew), and o a plant marked as being “‘ culti- 
vated in the Botanic Garde It seems probable that this 
second specimen, which is fats was grown either from seed 
s 
Anderson’s at Kew were fro hamo, about 180 miles to the 
north-east. And as there is no eadcabt that this female cultivated 
specimen is the one figured and described by Kurz, it must be 
regarded as the type of the genus Balanostreblus. A sketch of 
ure. H 
Lu hegeteelt Chittagong specimen is male, and is undoubtedly 
able from 7. tlicifolia, Vidal, a ’ determination with which 
Gamble is is entirely in agreement. It is true that extreme forms 
But D. Merrill, oe in a letter to the Director first 
called attention to the similarity of Balanostreblus an rO- 
2”? This variation is indicated in the text figures 
Mr. Meee soe come to the Se me - eed 
regarded as a form of B. ilicifolia, I can lee judge from 
the single speciait at Kew. The entire leaves of B. ilicifolia 
* Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii, 217 (1873). 2% 
