ULMAGEJS. 199 



milky shrub ; spines axillary (ramules) ; leaves 2-sticlious, shortly 

 petiolate ; stipules lateral small, not caducous ; male inflorescence 

 shortly stipitate ; female flowers solitary, long pedunculate. i (Java,^) 

 25 ? Phyllochlamys Bur.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Taxo- 

 tropins or Strehlus)^ 4-merous ; males ^ in subsessile capituliform 

 involucrate inflorescences ; anthers 4, introrse subglobose. Scales of 

 involucre ovate concave, dry, dark-coloured. Female flower, 

 gynsecium and other characters of Strehlus, Fruit drupaceous, in- 

 volucrate by accrescent perianth ; albumen of descending laterally 

 affixed seed pulpy, sometimes very thin; cotyledons of somewhat 

 fleshy embryo very unequal ; one conduplicate lobate enfolding the 

 other much smaller. — A spinous shi'ub ;^ leaves alternate, very shortly 

 petiolate ; stipules small, 2-nate ; male capitules axillary sessile 

 glomerate 2-5 ; female flowers axillary solitary long-pedunculate.^ 

 [East Indies^ Java?) 



26. Diplocos BuR.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Strehlus)^ 

 4-merous ; male calyx valvate ; anthers subglobose introrse ; female 

 calyx imbricate, not involucrate. Fruit in part drupaceous ; putamen 

 parchment-like ; seed sometimes pulpy albuminous ; embryo placed at 

 top of albumen, cotyledons equal broad complanate, cordate at base, 

 conduplicate ; radicle long curved turned to hilum and enfolded in 

 base of cotyledons. Other characters of Strehlus. — A branched 

 shrub somewhat spinous ; leaves alternate subelliptic membranous, 

 shortly petiolate; stipules small, serrate above, caducous; male 

 flowers ^ in broken cymiferous catkins, bracteate ; female in axillary 

 (spurious) racemes, shorter than the leaf, cymosely subcorymbiform 

 ebracteate. ( Ceylon}^) 



27. Dors tenia Plum.^^ — Flowers monoecious; male oftener 2- 



^ Better a section of Strehlus ? r^wswDcNE, Herb. Timor, t. 21. — Trophis spinosa 



^ Spec. 1. T. javanica Bl. — Miq. Fl. Lid.- Roxb. Fl. Ind. 762. — T. taxiformis Spreng. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 219>.— Urtica'^ spvwsa Bl. Bijdr. Syst. iii. 902.— Hook, and Arn. ap. Beech. 



507.— Fpicarpurus javanica Bl. 215. — T. taxoides Heyist. Roth. Nov. PI. Ind. 



' Prodr. xvii. 217. 368.— T. ? Heyneana Wall. Cat. n. 4642.— 



^ The adult stamens are said to be furnished TaxotropUs Roxhwghii Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



with elongate incurved filaments (and are so ii. 78.— Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 264.— Mia. Fl. 



represented in Wight's figure), in the younger Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 279. 



state they appear to us shorter and erect (after ' Prodr. xvii. 215. 



the manner of the Artocarpece), a genus hence ' Green. 



apparently very near to Cudrania. ^" Spec. 1. D. zeylanica Bur. — Fpicarpurus 



* With the habit and branches of Crtr^%y?2^. zeylanica Thw. Sook. Lond. Jouni. (1852), 1, 



^ Better a section of Strehlus, notwithstanding 3, t. 2.—E. zeylanicus Wight, Icon. t. 196 



the involucre of the male flower. {^^9Jci.).— Taxotrophis zeylanica Thw. Fnum. FL 



7 Spec. 1. P. f^pinosa Bur. — Fpicarpurus Zeyl. 264 (if B, macrophylla is of this genus ? ?). 



spinosm Wight, Ic. t. 1962 (part.).— ^. timo- " Nov. PL Amer. Gen. 29, t. 8.— L. Gen. n. 



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