948 BENGAL PLANTS. (Acalypha. 
1888. AcALYpHA INDICA Linn,; F. I. iii. 675; F. B. T.-.¥: 416; 
N. saa C. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
An ual weed, 1-3 feet high. Vernac. Khokli. 
1889. . cmiata Forsk.; F. I. iii. 676; F. B. 1. v. 417; 
03. 
Behar. 
An annual weed, 1-2 feet high. 
840. Trewia Linn. 
Soft-wooded trees ; leaves opposite, broadly ovate or orbicular ; 
base cordate, 3-5-nerved; margins entire. Flowers diccious, 
rather large, a veloped before the leaves; perianth simple; males 
in lax lateral racemes, one to each bract, females solitary, long- 
peduncled or racemose. ¢ Sepals connate in a globose calyx, 
separating into 38-4 broad, concave, often reflexed segments. 
Disk 0. Stamens numerous, on a concave receptacle ; 
filaments free ; anthers cei oblong, the cells parallel, con- 
tiguous. Pistillode 0. 9 Sepals 3-5, broad, imbricate, caducous. 
Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels connate in a 2-4-celled ovary ; ovules 
solitary in each cell; styles connate below, long, terete, entire, 
papillose throughout. Frwit ee 2-4-celled, indehiscent or 
dehiscing loculicidally; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds ovoid; 
testa hard; albumen fleshy ; cotpledons broad, flat 
890. TREWIA NUDIFLORA Linn.; F. I. iii. 837 ; F. B. I. v. 428; 
N. raha C. Bengal; E. Bengal ; Sundribuns ; Chitta- 
gon 
A ie deciduous tree. Hind. Kamhasa, gambar; 
Beng. Pitali; Uriya Monda; Kol. Gara lohadaru. 
841, Mallotus Lour. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite or alternate, entire, toothed or 
8-lobed, penninerved or 3-7-nerved, sometimes peltate, often 
gland-dotted beneath, and sometimes with glandular spaces at the 
base above. Flowers dicecious or monecious, small or minute, in 
axillary or terminal, simple or branched spikes or racemes; 
perianth simple; males fascicled, females solitary in the bracts. 
¢ Sepals connate in a globose or ovoid, 3-5-partite calyx ; lobes 
valvate. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens numerous, crowded on the 
