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434 URTICACEA. [Cudrania. 
CUDRANIA, Tréc, 
Flowers dioecious, packed into globular heads subtended by 2- 
4, bracts which alternate with the perianth-lobes. Males: perianth 
4.parted, the segments imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, opposite 
the perianth-segments and sometimes adhering to their base. Fe. 
males: perianth as in the males, persistent. Ovary free, with a 
single pendulous ovule; style simple, with a rudimentary tooth- 
like branch at the base; stigma filiform, puberulous. Fruit a 
synearp, composed of the fleshy, enlarged, velvety, free, or more or 
less connate perianths within which the crustaceous nuts are lodged. 
. Testa very thin. Embryo in the axil of the albumen; cotyledons 
rather thick, folded, the radicle very long, superior.—Scandent 
spiny shrubs, with entire leaves. Stipules axillary, connate. Flower- 
heads peduncled, by pairs in the axils of the leaves. 
Leaves 13-3 in. long, glabrous. 
Young branches pubescent ; leaves blunt or bluntish, the nerves 
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x X Leaves 4-6 in. long, abruptly acuminate, the nerves . 
strongly prominent. 
All parts quite glabrous : 
ss ; . C. fruticosa. 
Leaves, especially beneath, pubescent . 
1. C. Amboinensis, Rumph. (Cudranus Rumphii, Thw.; Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr., 20, t. 27, f. 1).—A very large straggling or scandent 
dioecious shrub, often growing out into a small tree with very long 
drooping branches, armed with long sharp somewhat recurved — 
spines, the young branchlets tawny-pubescent ; leaves obovate to 
obovate-lanceolate, on a thin 2-8 lin. long petiole, entire, blunt or 
rounded to shortly acuminate and mucronate, 14-3 in. long, acute 
to bluntish at the base, thin-chartaceous, glabrous; flower-heads 
globular, pubescent, the size of a pea or smaller, the females on 
rather thick densely puberulous peduncles 2-8 lin. long, the males 
on longer slender ones, by pairs in the axils of the leaves; sypearp 
globular, the size of a very small cherry, the perianths all flesby 
and connate, glaucous-green and velvety; seeds several, imbedded 
in the fleshy perianths. a 
Has.—Chittagong. : 
3. C. fruticosa, Wight.—A large dioecious scandent shrub, 
armed with curved sharp spines, all parts quite glabrous; leaves — 
elliptically oblong to oblong, on a slender glabrous petiole 4-5 jin, 
long, rounded at the base, rather abruptly and thinly acuminate, 
4-6 in. long, membranous, quite glabrous, the lateral nerves stops — 
and prominent, approximate towards the base, the net-veination — 
lax and prominent ; flower-heads globular, the size of a pea, mie 
lous, the females on rather thick 2-4 lin. long puberulous pedur- — 
Pua TRE & Rentini Ee 
