ULMACEM. 199 



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

 petiolate ; stipules lateral small, not caducous ; male inflorescence 

 shortly stipitate ; female flowers solitary, long pedunculate. 1 {Java}) 

 25 ? Phyllochlamys Bur. 3 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Taxo- 

 tropliis or Streblus), 4-merous ; males 4 in subsessile capituliform 

 involucrate inflorescences ; anthers 4, introrse subglobose. Scales of 

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

 gynsecium and other characters of Streblus. 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 shrub ; 5 leaves alternate, very shortly 

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

 glomerate 2-5 ; female flowers axillary solitary long-pedunculate. 6 

 [East Indies, Java. 1 ) 



26. Siplocos Bur. 8 — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Streblus), 

 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 Streblus. — A branched 

 shrub somewhat spinous ; leaves alternate subelliptic membranous, 

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

 flowers 8 in broken cymiferous catkins, bracteate ; female in axillary 

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

 ebracteate. ( Ceylon} 9 ) 



27. Dorstenia Plum. 11 — Flowers monoecious; male oftener 2- 



1 Better a section of Streblus ? rewstsDcNB, Herb. Timor, t. 21. — Trophis spinosa 



3 Spec. 1. T. javaniça Bl.— Mia. Fl. I, id.- Roxb. Fl. Ind. 762. — T. taxiformis Sprung. 



Bat. i. p. ii. 278.— Urtica? xpiuosa Bl. Bijdr. Syst. iii. 902.— Hook, and Arm. ap. Beech. 



507. — Epicarpuras jaranica Bl. 215. — T. taxoides Heyn. Both. JVov. PI. Ind. 



3 Prodr. xvii. 217. 368.— T. ? Heyueana Wall. Cat. n. 4642.— 



* The adult stamens are said to be furnished Taxotrophis Roxburgh» Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 



with elongate incurved filaments (and are so ii. 78. — Thw. Euum. PL Zerjl. 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 8 Prodr. xvii. 215. 



the manner of the Artocarpece), a genus hence 9 Green. 



apparently very near to Oudrania. 10 Spec 1. D. zeylanica Bur. — Epicarpurus 



5 With the habit and branches of Cardiogijne. sei/lanica Thw. Hook. L>md. Journ. (18.52), 1, 



Better a section of Streblus, notwithstanding 3, t. 2. — E. zeykimcus Wight, Icon. t. 196 



the involucre of the male flower. (part.). — Taxotrophis zeylanica Thw. Enum. fl. 



7 Spec. 1. P. spinosa Bur. — Epicarpuras Zeyl. 264 (if B. macrophylla is of this genus ??). 



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



