970 BENGAL PLANTS. [Balanostreblus. 
871. Balanostreblus Kurz. 
Small evergreen trees; leaves alternate, penninerv ved, margins 
spinescent ; stipules small, caducous. Flowers moncecious, 
ary ; males in cylindric catkins, females racemed, all bracteate- 
3 Sepals 4, thick, obtuse, valvate. Stamens 4, erect in bud. 
Pistillode 0. % Sepals connate in an utricular perianth, adnate 
below to the ovary, free above ; limb minute. Ovary included, 
end 
half-inferior; ovule pendulous; style short, 2-fid, arms thick, 
villous. Fruit a eat e drupe, enclosed in the fleshy ries 
ALANOSTREBLUS ILIcrFoLIus Kurz; F. B. I. v. 544. 
Chittagong. 
A small evergreen tree. 
872. Cudrania Trec. 
Scandent or erect shrubs, or small trees; leaves alternate, entire, 
penninerved; stipules small, lateral. Flowers dicecious, bracteo- 
late, in small globose heads. g Sepals 8-5, oblong, obtuse, } imbri- 
cate, adnate to 2-4 bracts. Stamens 4, erect, more or les ve 
he sepals. Pistillode subulate or obsolete. ¢ Sepals broader 
than the male sepals, mada the ovary. Ovary straight; 
ovule pendulous; style terminal, simple or 2-partite, arms stout 
or slender. Fruits of ovoid, compressed, crustaceous achenes, 
enclosed in the enlarged, fleshy bracts and perianths, and orming 
globose, fleshy heads. Seed with a membranous testa; © oty- 
ledons twisted or folded, equal or unequal, embracing the slender, 
ascending radicle. 
a 
Young branches pubescent; leaves 3 in. long or less, nerves slender 
javensis. 
Young branches glabrous ; leaves 4-6 in. long, nerves stout beneath 
fru 
uticosd- 
1943. CupRANIA JAVENSIS Trecul ; FP. By 4.¥.:538. 
iny shru 
1944, a ean FRUTICOSA Wight; F. ‘B. I, v. 539. 
Chitté 
A large sande spiny shrub. 
873. Artocarpus Forst. 
Evergreen trees; leaves often large, alternate, coriaceous, entire 
or pinnately lobed, penninerved; stipules lateral. Flowers mon® 
