Trema.| ‘ URTICACER. 469 
5 in. long, acuminate, serrulate, chartaceous, above more or less 
retrorsely scabrous from stiff appressed bristles, beneath silvery 
appressed-pubescent or villous-pubescent, more or less 3-7-nerved 
at the base and penninerved upwards; flowers dioecious or polyga- 
mous, sessile or nearly so, forming short pubescent or villous cymes 
in the axils of the leaves and somewhat longer or shorter than the 
petiole; perianth-segments glabrous or nearly so, ciliate; drupes 
ovate, about a line long, sessile and supported by the perianth, 
glabrous, crowned ae the reflexed stigmas. 
Var. 1, canes pt proper (Sponia Wightii, Planch.; Bedd. 
Sylv. Madr. 11): branchlets minutely appressed-pubescent ; 
telees less ders Show beneath covered with a minute, appressed, 
. sega cymes shortly ne minutely pubescent. 
2, Amboinensis (Zrema Amboinensis, Bl. ; Sponia velutina, 
Planch, Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 219) ; branchlets more or less villous ; 
leaves above very scabrous from numerous bristles , beneath covered 
with a silky or nae sometimes brownish villous pubescence. 
Has.—Var. 1: in Chittagong; var. 2: frequent in the tropical forests all 
over ae and adj coat Parnes. especially os Ee banks, etc., and pro- 
Y springing up in deserted toungyas.—Fl. —1—88.=Sis. Metam., 
with a 3-nerved base, the nerves very t owers sessile or eas 
80, forming small minutely sob es fo slabreseent cymes in the 
axils of the leaves ; ao ceaiges ; dru bout — a line long, 
Haz SES 
GIRONNIERA, Gaud. 
Characters of the ee genus, but the drupes much larger, 
the — flowers in racemes or cymes, or sometimes solitary and 
le flowers in cymes; drupes more or less compressed. 
tenes puec beneath ; err styles sessile . G, nervosa. 
¢ flowers usually solitary, ona longer or shorter 
ne = 6. very glo Imost polished G@. lucida. 
leaves 3- om - ee ee a ee 
1. ervosa, Planch.—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 10—15 
+45), the branchlets densely tawny-pubescent ; leaves oblong 
