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Antiaris. | URTICACER. 463 
ona puberulous petiole 2-3 lin. long, rounded to almost cordate 
at the base, 4-8 in. long, acuminate, with a mucro, entire, charta- 
ceous, glossy and somewhat rough above, beneath more or less 
roughish puberulous and turning almost glabrous; male recep- 
tacles concave-explanate, rounded, outside (like the strong peduncle 
up to 3 in. long) velvety-tomentose, usually by 8 or 4 clustered in 
the axils of the leaves; female receptacles pear-shaped, tapering 
into a very thick and short peduncle, velvety ; drupes more or less 
oblong-pear-shaped to oblong, tapering into the 3-4 lin. long thick 
peduncle, with a few scale-like bracts towards the apex, otherwise 
even and velvety-tomentose, bright scarlet or crimson. 
Hazs.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of 
the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and from Martaban down to Tenasserim. 
r. Apr.-May.—s =SiS., Metam. 
Remarxs.—Wood pale brown, very coarse-fibrous. Exudes a white poison- 
ous resin, used for poisoning arrows, etc. In Hindustan the inner bark is care- 
fully removed entire from proportionally long portions of the trunk and used as 
* Male flowers in short peduncled heads or spikes, the heads 
sometimes androgynous ; the females solitary, peduncled ; 
_ perianth-segments broad, enlarging and turning fleshy, 
entirely enclosing the achene, 
All parts scabrously pubescent; fruiting perianth fleshy, scabrous ; 
in h : : 
male flowers eli ott gn sane eminem S. aspera. 
All parts glabrous an h; male flowers in dense spikes S. mitis. 
* ale flowers in short-peduncled small racemes, th 
lo ianth-segments 
emales in very loase racem 
narrow, little enlarging and embracing only the base 
All . _ of the achene. : 
Parts glabrous or nearly so; fruiting perianth-segments 
eB Zeylanion, 
