Trema.} URTICACEH. 959 
Flowers small, po lygamous, cymose, male and androgynous cymes 
usually at the base of ape female in the upper axils; sears 
simple. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 4 or 5, 
short, in bud erect, rime te round a woolly torus. Ovary sessile ; 
ovule pendulous; style central, arms simple or lobed, plumose. 
Fruit a small ovoid or globose drupe; endocarp hard, s spre or 
rugose. Seed with membranous testa; albumen scanty or 0; 
embryo curved; cotyledons broad, inflexed, flat or sissies 
surrounding the upcurved radicle. 
Drupes solitary, globose or ovoid, apex obtuse tetrandra 
Drupes racemed, ovate, narrowed to the apex cinnamomea 
1910. Pei TETRANDRA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 683; F. B. I. v. 482; 
. C. 900. 
ae Behar; N. Bengal, Duars; Chittagong. 
A tree, 
1911, CeLris civnamomua Lindl.; F. B. I. v. 482; E. D. C. 893. 
Chittagong 
A tree 
854. Trema Lour. 
Shrubs or trees; co alternate, serrate, base 3-7-nerved ; 
stipules lateral, caducous. Flowers mon cecious, subdiecious or 
polygamous, in small acct ary cymes; perianth simple. ¢ Sepals 
4-5, induplicate-valvate or subimbricate. Petals 0. Stamens 4-5, 
erect in bud. Pistillode small or 0. Sepals as in male when 
Ovary sessile; ovule pendulous; style central, 2-armed, 
linear. Fruit a small, straight, ovoid or subglobose eae. al 
tipped by the style; endoce ard. Seed sm 
arp h 
branous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons narrow ; eadele saisectige 
th :— 
haa closely or sparingly adpressed-pubescent; leaves beneath 
silvery silky with adpressed pubescence, above scabrid ; a lax, 
Spreading, usually longer = the petioles entalis 
ch 
cent; cymes dense, compact, cine i the petioles ...... iehilethake. 
Leaves almost equal at base, very scabrid on both surfaces ; Biome 
stout, ee hairy; cymes hericiirt males about eq the 
petioles 
FOC cee eccadeses 
