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pairs, the female, flowers long-pedicelled, forming a lax, glabrous 
poor raceme in the axils of the leaves; achenes the size of a small 
pea, only at the base surrounded by the lanceolate somewhat en- 
larged and carnescent smooth perianth-segments. 
Has.— Burma. 
4. §, taxoides, Kz.—An evergreen small tree, 15-25 ft. high, 
armed with woody, straight, sharp spines, all parts glabrous ; leaves 
obovate-cuneate to cuneate-lanceolate, on a glabrous petiole 1-2 lin. 
long, rounded at the narrowed base, acuminate, 2-4 in. long, irre- 
gularly and remotely serrate, thin-chartaceous, glabrous; the male 
owers in sessile, paired, axillary clusters with a short many-bracted 
involucre ; the females on very slender peduncles with a pair of 
small bracts at or below its middle, usually solitary or by pairs in 
the axils of the leaves; perianth-segments leafy; achenes covered 
by the leafy, involucre-shaped, lanceolate, acuminate perianth-seg- 
ments of about ? in. in length. 
war. {) 2; microphylla (Stred/us microphylla, Kz.) : the young’ 
shoots puberulous, the spines puberulous and leaf-bearing; leaves 
1-13 in. long, ovate to oval, blunt, with a mucro, remotely roundish 
crenate; fl. and fr. unknown.—A small straggling tree. 
Has.—Var. 1: along the rocky coasts of the Andamans, in tropical forests ; 
var. 2; common in the swamp forests of the Irrawaddi alluvium.—Fl. May.—s. 
BALANOSTREBLUS, Kz. 
Flowers monoecious, the males apparently in catkins, females 
racemose. Perianth connate with the ovary, free upwards, but 
entirely enclosing the ovary, perforate at the apex. Ovary half- 
Superior, with a solitary pendulous ovule ; style short, protruding 
from the perianth-mouth; stigmas 2, short, thick, villous. Seed 
1. B. ilicifolia, Kz—An evergreen small tree, the branchlets 
shortly pubescent and rough ; leaves elliptical to broadly oval, on a 
abrous terete petiole a in. long, often somewhat 
unequal at the acute or obtuse base, rigidly coriaceous, spiny-acute, 
coarsely spiny-toothed, 1-3 in. long, glabrous, the lateral nerves 
rather crowded, straight and anastomosing ; flowers too young, but 
ey forming short, sessile, dense, glabrous spikes in the axils 
of the leaves, with apparently distichous, broad, rounded, ciliolate 
bracts ; drupes the size of a pea, red, tubercled-wrinkled, glabrous. 
Has.—Chittagong and Ava, 
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