. Pliylloclilamys.~\ cxxxvi. URTICAOEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 489 



A small evergreen gnarled tree ; spines long, strong, often leafy and flowering. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., nerves 6-8 pair, nearly straight; petiole in.; stipules acute. 

 Bracts of small involucres short, imbricate. Fern, peduncles solitary or binate, 

 bracteate at or below the middle. Fruiting sepals -1 in., lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Fruit size of a cherry. Wight describes the fern, sepals as 5, but figures 4. 



VAK. ? microphylla, Kurz 1. c. ; shoots and spines puberulous, leaves l-l in ' 

 ovate to oblong obtuse mucronate crenate. Irawaddi Kiver in swampy forests, Kurz. 



2. P. Wallichii, King in Herb. Calcutt.-, leaves elliptic-oblong or 

 lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate quite entire or very obscurely 

 toothed. Erythroxyli fere facie, &c., Br. in Wall. Cat. 7519. 



PENANG, Porter, Curtis. PEEAK, King's Collector. 



A thorny shrub or small tree, 10-15 ft. ; branchlets quite glabrous. Leaves 

 5-7 in., coriaceous, pale when dry, strongly reticulate between the nerves beneath ; 

 petiole Jjj in. Male ft. in small globose sessile clusters, sparsely pubescent. Fruit 

 in. diam., sepals f in., oblong, obtuse. In Wallich's specimens some branchlets 

 are clothed with ovate acute rigid imbricating bracts or scales T Vin. long, which no 

 doubt led to Brown's observation (facie Erythroxyli) in Herb. Wallich . 



10. STREBXiUS, Lour. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees, juice milky. Leaves scabrid, alternate, penni- 

 nerved ; stipules small, subulate. Flowers axillary, di- rarely monoecious, 

 males in peduncled heads or spikes ; fern, peduncled, solitary or 2-4 

 together. MALE PL. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. 

 Pistillode dilated at the top. FEM. PL. bracteate. Sepals of male embracing 

 the ovary. Ovary straight, retuse ; style central, arms very long ; ovule 

 pendulous. Fruit membranous, subglobose, not oblique, laxly clothed with 

 the persistent sepals. Seed globose, testa membranous, albumen ; embryo 

 globose, one cotyledon very large fleshy, enclosing the other which is very 

 small and the upcurved radicle. Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 



1. S. asper, Lour. Fl. Cochin, ii. 615; scabrid, male fl. capitate. 

 Bureau in DC. Prodr. xvii. 218 ; Brand. For. FL 410 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 464; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 240; Bedd. For. Man, 221, t. 26, f. 1; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 278, and Suppl. 171 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 326. 

 Epicarpurus orientalis, Blume Bijd. 488; Wight Ic. t. 1961. E. asper, 

 Steud. Nomencl. i. 556. Trophis a'spera, Retz. Obs. v. 30 (eorcl. syn,} ; Ro.rb. 

 FL Ind. iii. 761 ; Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1834) 62, 1. 121 ; Wall. Cat. 

 4640. T. cochinchinensis, Pair. Encycl. viii. 123. T. aculeata, Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 868. Achymus patens, Soland. mss. Rheede Hort. Mai. i. t. 48. 



Drier parts of India; from ROHILKTJND, eastward and southward to TRAVANCOKE, 

 PENANG and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. CEYLON; common. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, 

 Cochin China, China, Siam. 



A rigid shrub or gnarled tree; branchlets tomentose or pubescent. Leaves 

 2-4 in., rigid, elliptic, rhomboid, ovate or obovate, irregularly toothed ; petiole T \ in. 

 Male heads globose, solitary or 2-nate, sometimes androgynous; ^ peduncle short 

 scabrid ; flowers minute. Fern. fl. longer peduncled. Fruit pisiform ; perian th 

 yellow. 



2. S. mitis, Kurz For. FL ii. 464 ; glabrous, male fl. in simple or 



branched spikes. 



AVA ; on the Kakhyen Hills, Kurz. 



I do not know this plant, which Kurz describes as an evergreen tree with leaves 



