483 cxxxvi. URTiCACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pseudostrellu 8 ' 



KHASIA MTS. ; Bor panee River, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. SfT. T. 



A small tree ; shoots and inflorescence puberulous. Leaves 4-6 in., coriaceous, 

 glabrous, drying brown, rather shining ou both surfaces; petiole - in.; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate. Male fl. about | in. diam.; buds globose; fern, much larger. 

 Fruit % in. diam. or more. j 



8. TAXOTROPHIS, Elumc. 



Spinous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penninerved ; stipules small, 

 connate, caducous. Flowers dioecious, axillary, males in short spikes 

 racemes or fascicles, fern. 1-4 on a long peduncle. MALE FL. Sepals 4, 

 valvate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode with a dilated top. FEM. 

 FL. Sepals 4, imbricate, persistent and shorter than the fruit. Ovary ovoid, 

 straight, at length very oblique ; style 2-partite, at length lateral ; ovule 

 pendulous. Fruit obliquely subglobose, fleshy on one side and at the base, 

 apex thin. Seed oblique, albumen ; cotyledons broad, fleshy, crumpled, 

 radicle upcurved. Species 3-4, Ceylon and Malayan. 



T. zeylanica, TJiwaites Enum. 264; glabrous, leaves rhombic or 

 trapezoidly elliptic obtusely acuminate serrate. Bedclome Forester's Man. 

 222, t. 26, f. 3. Diplocos zeylanica, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 215. Epi- 

 carpurus zeylanicus, Thivaites in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. (1852) 1, 3, t. 2 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1962 (the lower left-hand figure}. Streblus zeylanica, Jurz 

 For. FL ii. 464. 



BURMA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4659). CEYLON, near Kandy, TJiwaites. 



A small evergreen tree or shrub ; spines short or long, straight ; shoots puberulous. 

 Leaves 34 in., rhomboidly oblong or lanceolate, obtusely caudate, glabrous; petiole 

 r V-To in. ; stipules lanceolate. Male fl. minute, shortly pedicelled, subracemose, 

 puberulous. Fruit size of a pea, subtended by the small lanceolate rather enlarged 

 sepals. 



9. PHlTIiXiOCHXiAlKYS, Bureau. 



Glabrous spinous trees or shrubs ; sap milky. Leaves alternate, penni- 

 nerved ; stipules lateral, free. Flowers dioecious, males in short axillary 

 involucrate spikes or clusters ; fern, solitary, peduncled. MALE FL. Sepals 

 3-4, ovate, imbricate. Stamens 3-4, inflexed in bud. Pistillode, dilated at 

 the top. FEM. FL. Sepals 3-4, accrescent and foliaceous in fruit. Ovary 

 straight in flower, at length very oblique ; style 2-partite, at length lateral; 

 ovule pendulous. Fruit small, shorter than the sepals, obliquely globose or 

 ovoid, subfleshy below, with a very thin umbonate apex. Seed oblique, albumen 

 very scanty ; embryo globose, one cotyledon very large 2-tid enclosing the 

 smaller, radicle upcurved. Species 2 or 3, Indian and Malayan. 



1. P. spinosa, Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 218; leaves subsessile ellipti- 

 cally rhombic or subtrapezoid rernotelv serrate - on one or both margins 

 or subentire. Brandis For. Fl. 411; Bedd. For. Man. 220, t. 26, f. 2. 

 Epicarpurus spiuosus, Wight Ic. 1962 (upper and right-hand figures}. E. 

 timorensis, Dene. Herb. Timor. 171, t. 21. Taxotrophis Eoxburghii, Blume 

 Mus. Bot. ii. 78 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 279 ; Tliw. Enum. 264. Trophis 

 spinosa, JKoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 762 (not ofWilld.}. T. taxiformis, Spreng. Syst. 

 iii. 902. T. taxoides, Heyne in Both Nov. Sp. 368. T. ? Heyneana, Wall. 

 Cat. 4642. Streblus taxoides, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 465. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; the Circars, Keyne ; Courtallam, Wight. BURMA and the 

 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. CEYLON, in the dry districts. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



