464 : URTICACER, [Streblus. — 
* *& * Male flowers in sessile bracted-involucred clusters, 
the females solitary, on slender peduncles; peri 
anth-segments leafy, much longer than the achene 
and involucre-like ; 
All parts glabrous P . - ‘ . . ‘ ° = 
Spines and young shoots puberulous ; leaves 1-1} in. long . . S. microphylla. 
1. S. aspera, Lour.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 221, t. 26, f. 1; Brand. 
For. FI., 410.—Op-nai.—An evergreen tree (80—40 + 4—10425— 
3), often forming in arid plains low, dense, intricately branched, 
minutely leaved copses, all parts harshly pubescent ; bark } in. 
thick ; cut milky ; leaves somewhat rhomboid-oblong to obovate-ob- 
long, on a pubescent petiole hardly a line long, rounded or obtuse at 
the narrowed base, usually 2-3 in. long, bluntish to blunt-acuminate, 
with a mucro, more or less repand-toothed, chartaceous, especially 
beneath harshly and shortly pubescent ; flower-heads often andro- 
gynous, the male and androgynous ones on ver short scabrous- 
pubescent peduncles solitary or by pairs, the female flowers solitary 
and on longer slender peduncles, usually clustered in the axils — 
of the leaves; ripe achenes the size of a small pea, almost entirely 
enclosed by the fleshy orange-coloured roughish puberulous peri- 
anth-segments from which only the 2-cleft style protrudes. 
Has.—Frequent in the mixed and tropical forests along choungs, but chiefly 
in the savannah forests, all over Burmaand adjacent provinces, also Andamans, 
ft. elevation. —Fl. C.S.; Fr. H.S.—l.—SS.= wo All. 
ReEMARKS.— Wood red-brown, coarse, yields a white resin. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills. 
8. S. Zeylanica (Diplocos Zeylanica, Bur. ; Taxotrophis Zeyla- 
nica, Thw.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 222, t. 26, f. 3) —An evergreel 
small tree, 12-18 ft. high, or shrub, usually armed with long; 
straight, sharp spines (abortive branchlets), all parts glabrous oF the — 
young shoots puberulous ; leaves from rhomboid-oblong to oblong 
and rhomboid-lanceolate, on hardly a line long petiole, long but 
blunt acuminate, rounded or acute at the base, 3-4 in. lo 
serrate, thin-chartaceous, glabrous; male flowers shortly pedicell 
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in loose, short-peduncled, small, puberulous racemes, axillary, b 
