198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



shrub ; branches diffuse ; leaves alternate petiolate entire ; inflores- 

 cence of both sexes globose glomerulate, axillarj^, 2-nate or more 

 rarely solitary, pedunculate ; female flowers connate with each other 

 at base.i (Indta.^) 



22. Streblus Lour.^ — Flowers dioecious * (nearly of Plecospermum 

 or Cardiogyne) ; the males axillary glomerulate, 4-riierous ; stamens 

 finally long open ; the females solitary or very rarely 2-4-nate ; 

 branches of terminal style 2, long filiform. Fruit globose ; calyx 

 accrescent involucrate ; pericarp parchment-like ; embryo of exal- 

 buminous seed globose ; cotyledons very unequal ; one enfolding the 

 other with superior radicle. — An unarmed tree or shrub ; twigs and 

 leaves 2-stichous ; leaves petiolate coriaceous ; stipules lateral 

 small, caducous ; male flowers collected in axillary pedunculate 

 glomerules, 2-bracteate ; the female axillary, long pedunculate. 

 {East Indies^ Java.^) 



23 ? Pseudostreblus Bur.^ — Flowers monoecious (of Streblus) ; 

 males in axillary ramose 1 -laterally cymiferous (spurious) racemes, 2- 

 bracteate at base, 5-merous, sepals 5, ovate concave, imbricate ; 

 females solitary. Fruit . . . ? Other characters of Streblus. — A tree or 

 shrub (?) ; leaves petiolate, 2-stichous, entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 lateral small, caducous ; inflorescence axillary ; the males longer 

 with petiole. 7 (Uast Indies.^) 



24 ? Taxotrophis Bl.^— Flowers dioecious (of /S'/r^^/z^5),4-merous; 

 the males in pedunculate shortly spikelike or capituliform glomeru- 

 liferous catkins ; the females solitary. Fruit longer than slightly 

 increased and persistent calyx ; mesocarp here rather thick, thence 

 laterally thin ; embryo of exalbuminous seed subglobose ; cotyledons 

 subhemispherical fleshy ; radicle very short superior. — A spinous 



^ A genus perhaps with Madura to be united aspera Miq. Fl. Lid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 278. — Trophis 



with the preceding, of which it is a section aspera Retz. Obs. v. 30 (part.). — Roxb. Fl. Ind. 



according to Bl. (Z^^ojwra) and Miq. i^i. /;/fi?.- iii. 761. — T. cochinchineusis Poir. Diet. viii. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 280. 123. — T. aculeata, Roth. Nov. PL Spec. 868.— 



2 Spec. 1. P. spijiosum Trec. — Wight, Icon. Epicarpurus orientalis Bl. — Wight, Ico)i. t. 

 t. 1963.-— Thw. E>ium. pi. Zeyl. 26Z.—£atis 1961.— F. asper Stevd.~A chi/mus pallens Sol. 

 spinosa Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 763. — Tindaparua Rheed. Hort. Malab. i. 87, t. 48. 



3 Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 614.— Bur. Prodt: ^ Prodr. xvii. 219. 



xvii. 21^.— Trophis Retz. Obs. v. 30 (not L.).— '* A genus scarcely distinguishable from 



Epicarpurus Bl. Bijdr. 488. — Endl. Gen. n. Streblus by its compound spuriously racemiform 



1855. inflorescence. 



< Sometimes polygamous (Bl.). s gpec. i. p. indica Bur. he. cit. 220. 



5 Spec. 1. 5. asj^er Lour. — Bl. Mus.Luffd.-Bat. ^ Mus. Lugd-Bat. ii. 77, t. 26.— Bv^. Prodr. 



ii. 79, t. 30.— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 264.— *S'. xvii. 216. 



