462 URTICACEE. | Dorstenia. 
DORSTENIA, Plum. 
enclosed in the fleshy pericarp almost 2-valved from the middle, 
and elastically ejected from it, the testa crustaceous, verrucosé and 
crested. 
the length of the radicle—Herbs or undershrubs, often succulent, 
1. D, Griffithiana, Kz.—An evergreen low shrub, the branch- 
lets angular and tawny-pubescent ; leaves elongate-obovate to cu- 
neate-elliptical, on a strong pubescent glabrescent petiole 4-3 m. 
ong, acute or rounded at the narrowed base, 8 in. to 14 ft. long, 
abruptly acuminate, thin coriaceous, entire, smooth above, rough 
involucre-bracts reflexed. 
Hazs.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. Jan. 
ANTIARIS, Lesch. 
and imbricately-bracted involucre opening at length mto an open 
convex receptacle. Perianth 4- or rarely 3-cleft, the segmen 
spatulate, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, or rarely 8, opposite 
the perianth-segments ; anthers extrorse. Female flowers solitary, 
within a many-bracted involucre, without a perianth. Ovary 
nate with the involucre, with a solitary pendulous ovule ; style sho 
2-cleft, the stigmas filiform. Fruita drupe, the pericarp formed 0 
the enlarged fleshy involucre. Testa chartaceous. Albumen nop 
Embryo with thick plano-convex cotyledons and a superior radicle— 3 
Trees or shrubs abounding in milky juice, with entire distor 
leaves. Stipules by pairs, axillary. Flower-heads axillary, cluste 
1. A, toxicaria, Lesch. (4. innovia, Bl. ; Bedd. Syly. Madr., : 
807 ; Brand. For. Fl., 427).—Hmi-d-sait.—An evergreen tree 00 
120 + 60—80+410—12), the branchlets glabrous or slightly pubes, 
cent and somewhat pruinous ; bark an inch thick, grey, even, COVER” 
with pustules ; cut pale-coloured; leaves elliptically oblong or oblong, — 
