Antiaris] 



C. MOEACE.E 



015 



A very tall tree, attaining 250 ft. trunk often buttressed, young 

 petioles, and midrib velvety. L. glabrous or hairy beneath, elliptic-oblong, 

 nate, entire or serrulate, 

 blade 3-6, pet, \ in. Fl. 

 monoecious, <J crowded on the 

 surface of flat pedunculate 

 and usually fascicled re- 

 ceptacles, which are sup- 

 ported by imbricating bracts, 

 sepals 3-4, stamens 3-8, 9 

 solitary, enclosed in a pear- 

 shaped involucre of numer- 

 ous confluent bracts, perianth 

 0, ovary adnate to the in- 

 volucre. Fr. red. velvety, 

 fleshy. 'I in. diam. 



Evergreen forests of the 

 Western lUiats from Khandala 

 southwards. Wuntho, Upper 

 Burma. Eastern slopes of tlie 

 IV-u Y'Miin , Kurzi. Fl. Sept.. 

 Oct. Tenasserim. In the lower 

 Thaungyin this tree towers 

 nvi'i' the t rees of the dense ever- 

 ! forest, which have a mean 

 height of 200 ft. (Brandis, 

 A i taran Report, 1860, p. 55 . 

 Basl very tough, made into ropes 

 and socks, the bottom of these 

 being a section of the branch. — 

 Ceylon, low country. Malay Penins. ami Archip 



shoots, 

 acunii- 



Fic. 190. — Antiaris toxicaria, Lcschen .'.. 



9. STREBLUS, Lour. ; Fl. Brit, Ind. v. 489. 



S. asper, Lour, (probably the only species) : Bedd. Man. t. 26. — Syn. 

 TSpicarpurus oricntalis, Blume; Wight Ic. t. 1961. Vern. Siora, Sahara, 

 Dahia, Hind.; Pni, Eharota, Paraya, Mar.; Pakki, Tel.; Mitli, Kau. ; 

 Parayan, Pira, Tarn.; Okhni. Burm. 



A rigid shrub or small scraggy tree, all parts full of milky juice, branchlets 

 hairy. L. elliptic or obovate, penniuerved, irregularly dentate, rough on 

 both sides with minute raised round dots, blade 2-4 in., pet. very short, 

 stipules obliquely lanceolate. Fl. dioecious, c? in globose heads, perianth 

 campanulate, deeply 4-fid, pubescent outside, segments imbricate, stamens 

 long, indexed in bud. $ solitary, on axillary usually fascicled peduncles, 

 .'. in. long, perianth of 4 decussate, closely imbricating sepals, styles 2, tili- 

 f rni, connate ai base. Fr. a yellow, 1-seeded berry, enclosed in the enlarged 

 fleshy sepals. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Beas eastwards. Oudh forests. Bengal. Behar. Both 



Peninsulas, often near tl ast. PI. Jan. March, leaves renewed in March. The 1. 



used to polish wood and ivory, paper made of the bast. I eylon. Malay Penins. and 

 Archip. 8. mitii, Km/ F. Fl. ii. 164, is doubtful. 



Balanostreblus Ulcifolia, Km/.. Chittagong. Bhamo. Malay Penins. A small, 



nearU glabrous evergreen tree, branchlets often spinescent, I. rigidly coriac s, 



'me', spinulose-dentate, broad-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, blade 1 5, pet. ; ! in. 

 Fl. monoecious, $ in cylindric, catkin-like spikes, ° racemose, base of perianth connate 

 with ovary, free above, mouth minute. Fr. a globose drupe, enclosed in the fleshy 

 perianth. 



Phyllochlamys spinoaa. Bureau.— Syn. Epicarpurtu tpinoitu, Wighl le. t. L962 (upper 

 and right-hand figures); Taxolrophtt Soxburghii, Blume; Bedd. Man. t. 26 fig 8 I 

 Streblut taxoules, Km/. Vern. Sukali, Tel. Orissa. Hills of the Northern Cii 

 the Duccnii ami the Karnatik. Andaman^. Swam p forests of the Irawodi alluvium. — 



