Trewia.} EUPHORBIACER. 379 
oe anthers 2-rimose, the connective not peculiarly pro- 
ary-rudiment none. Ovary 3-4-celled (the cells usually 
soaiant into 2 only) with a solitary ovule in each cell; styles as 
many as ovary-cells, connate at the base, very long and simple, 
spermaphore. Albumen Se with opposite simple 
Bs ves. Flowers small, in axillary racem 
. T. nudiflora, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 281; Brand. For. Fl., 
443 Paget —A tree (60-70 + 3040+ 9—10) i shedding 
leaves ‘ia H.S., the young shoots more or less pubescent ; bark 
greyish, corky- lenticellate, otherwise even, about 2-3 lin. thick ; eut 
greenish brown ; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse, rounded to 
almost cordate at the 3- or almost 5-nerved base, on a pubescent 
glabrescent petiole 1-2 in. long, acuminate, 4-6 ‘in. long, mem- 
branous, entire, eaparialty’ beneath pubescent, more or less peat 
above; flowers small, pedicelled, the males clustered and 
long racemes arising from above the scars of the fallen leaves, the 
females on very short, thick, villous pedicels, in shorter puberulous 
racemes or often reduced to 4 or 1 flower at the summit of the nude 
peduncle ; ovary and style pubescent or tomentose, the stigmas 
very long; drupes depressed-globular, the size of a small wood- 
apple, almost glabrous, corky-fleshy, containmg a bony putamen 
4. to 2-celled with as many seeds. 
Has teats along choungs in the tropical an and Pra oo ining 
mixed forests all over Burma, from Chittagong and Pegu down 
ae entering the savannah ‘forests. —Fl. H. S; Fr. begin. of R.S. aA ZI —_S8S.= 
RemarKs.—Wood white, turning yellowish, rather heavy, coarse-fibrous, but 
close-grained, soft. 
MALLOTUS, Lour. 
Flowers dioecious, sora monoecious. Calyx 3-5- (rarely 2-) 
parted, in the males valvate in bud, in the females high up tubular 
or flask-like cohering and finally rupturing longitudinally, or free, 
Petals and disk none, or rarely the latter iceciouel in the males. 
tamens numerous, free or cohering at the base, on a central some- 
what dilated receptacle ; anthers 2-rimose. Ovary-rudiment none 
or indehiscent. Ovary 3- rarely 5 5-2-celled, with a solitary o 
in each cell ; styles as many as —— simple, cles free or 
