198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

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

 rarely solitary, pedunculate ; female flowers connate with each other 

 at base. 1 {India.*) 



22. Streblus Lour. 3 — Flowers dioecious * (nearly of Plecospermum 

 or Cardiogync) ; the males axillary glomerulate, 4-merous ; 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. 6 — 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 {East Indies?) 



24 ? Taxotrophis Bl. 9 — Flowers dioecious (of Streblus), 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 tbick, thence 

 laterally thin ; embryo of exalbuminous seed subglobose ; cotyledons 

 subhemispherical fleshy ; radicle very short superior. — A spinous 



1 A genus perhaps with Madura to he united aspira Miq. Ft. Iud.-Bat. i. p. ii. 278. — Tropins 

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

 according to Bl. (Lrptosurn) and Mia. Fl. Intl.- iii. 761. — T. cochiuehimnsis Poir. Diet. viii. 

 Bat. i. p. ii. 280. 123.— T. aculcata, Roth. Nov. PI. Spec. 868.— 



2 Spec. 1. P. spinosum Trkc. — Wight, Icon. Epicarpurus orientalis Bl. — Wight, Icon. t. 

 t. 1963.— Thw. Enim.Pl. Zcyl. 2SZ.—Batis 1961.— £. a.-per Steud.— Ac/n/mus pollen) Sol. 

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



3 Fl. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 614.— Bur. Prodi: 6 Prodi: xvii. 219. 



xvii. 218. — Trophis Retz. Obs. v. 30 (not L.). — ' A genus scarcely distinguishable from 



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



1855. inflorescence. 



4 Sometimes polygamous (Bl.). 8 Spec. 1. P. indica Bur. loi: cit. 220. 



5 Spec. 1. S. asper Lour. — Bl. Mus.Lugd.-Bat. 9 Mus. Lucjd-Bat . ii. 77, t. 26.— Bur. Prodi: 

 ii. 79, t. 30.— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 264.— S. xvii. 216. 



