Flocourtia. | BIXINER. 8 
serrate, chartaceous, the under-surface and midrib above softly 
pubescent and on the nerves tawny or rusty tomentose; flowers 
dioecious, in very short tawny tomentose racemes. 
AB.—Tenasserim. 
5. F. sapida, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 193.—Na-yuwai.—A tree 
(25.804 10—18 +28) ; often reduced to a much-branched 
shrub, armed with scattered, simple, or compound spines, the younger 
parts quite glabrous or more or less greyish tomentose ; leaves ovate 
to obovate-oblong, on a rather strong reddish petiole, obtuse or 
rounded at base, 3-4 in. long, blunt, crenate-serrate, membranous 
glabrescent, the midrib red; flowers small, yellowish, on rather 
short thick pedicels, forming short tomentose or glabrous racemes; 
sepals puberulous or glabrous outside, eniee inside; berries the 
size of a pea, reddish, glabrous, containing 8-10 smooth pyrenes 
convex on the back ; edge cohering at base, but in fruit often re- 
moved from each other so as to appear like so many separate styles ; 
stigmas thickened and shactly 2-lobed. 
Has.—The glabrescent form common in the dry and Eng-forests of the 
Prome District and Ava.—Fl. Fbr.—March ; ‘Fr. March-May—l.—SS. = CaS. 
6. F. sepiaria, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 194; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 
16.—A low dioecious shrub, about 2 to 5 ft. high, idan’ leaves in 
HS., the younger parts armed with numerous straight spreading 
spines oceans: fried) bearing usually flowers and leaves ; leaves 
small, obovate to oblong, 1-14 in. long, acute or obtuse at base, 
on a short very slender puberulous petiole, blunt, towards 
crenate-serrate, acon when full grown rigid and al most 
coriaceous, glabrou ; flowers small, greenish, on a slender glabrous 
or slightly pabertilotis pedicels 2-24 ‘in. long, forming axillary and 
terminal poor racemes or almost solitary ; berries as large as a 
pea, about 5-seeded ; seeds smooth, rounded on the back ; the styles 
almost sessile, thick and connate, shortly 2-lobed, “the lobes 
bluntish. 
Has.—Chittagong 
13s. 30 vtundifoli, Clos.—A tree (15—20+8—12+4—l), 
shedding leaves in HS., unarmed, or with short axillary spines, 
the shoots puberulous ; leaves abasplondanents 2 or rotundate, on a — 
slender puberulous petiole 14 lin. long, about 14 im. Jong, blunt, 
crenate, membranous, glabrous ; Rives sm , greenish, on on short, 
but slender tawny pubescent pedicels forming s short axillary tawny 
eS racemes ; berries globular; styles 4-5, short, spreading. _ 
Rather frequent in the og mixed forests of ———— : 
May 188. = teagiaitied 6 other rocks. ce 
