TREWIA. ] EUPHORBIACE&. 10$ 



pale-green, 1-2-flowered, exceeding the capsules, strongly nerved, the 

 many nerves ending in long subulate hispid teeth. Capsules glab- 

 rous ; cocci very thin, white. Seeds globose -ovoid, smooth, T V in. 

 long. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Edgeworth) and probably in many 

 other localities within the area. DISTRIB. : 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- 

 Af rica . 



16. TREWIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 423. 



Soft-wooded trees. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or orbi- 

 cular ; entire ; base cordate, 3-5-nerved. Flowers rather large, 

 dioecious, appearing before the leaves, apetalous and without a 

 disk ; males in 4ax lateral racemes, one to each bract ; females 

 solitary on long peduncles or racemose. MALE fl. : Calyce globose, 

 splitting into 3-4 broad concave often reflexed segments. Stamens 

 many, on a convex receptacle, filaments free, anthers dorsifixed, 

 oblong, the cells parallel and contiguous. Pistillode none. FEM. 

 fl. : 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 S. 

 India. 



T. nudlflora, Linn. Sp. PL 1193 (Trevia) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. hi, 

 837 ; Brandis For. Fl. 443 ; Ind. Trees 590 ; F. B. I. v, 423 ; 

 Watt E. D.; Kanjildl For. FL (ed. 2,), 353 ; Gamble Man. 617 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 948 ; CooJce FL Bomb. if, 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. MALE flowers J- 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. 



