198 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



shrub ; branches diffuse ; leaves alternate petiolate entire ; inflores- 

 cence of both sexes globose glomerulate, axillary, 2-nate or more 

 rarely solitary, pedunculate ; female flowers connate with each other 

 at base.i (India.') 



22. Streblus Loxjr,^— Flowers dioecious * (nearly of Plecospermum 

 or Cardiogyne) ; the males axillary glomerulate, 4-merous ; stamens 

 finally long open ; the females solitary or very rarely 2-4-nate ; 

 branches of terminal style 2, long filiform. Fruit globose ; calyx 

 accrescent involucrate ; pericarp parchment-like ; embryo of exal- 

 buminous seed globose ; cotyledons very unequal ; one enfolding the 

 other with superior radicle. — An unarmed tree or shrub ; twigs and 

 leaves 2-stichous; leaves petiolate coriaceous; stipules lateral 

 small, caducous ; male flowers collected in axillary pedunculate 

 glomerules, 2-bracteate ; the female axillary, long pedunculate. 

 {East Indies, Java?) 



23 ? Pseudostreblus Btje.^ — Flowers monoecious (of Streblus) ; 

 males in axillary ramose 1-laterally cymiferous (spurious) racemes, 2- 

 bracteate at base, 5-merous, sepals 5, ovate concave, imbricate ; 

 females solitary. Fruit . . . ? Other characters of Streblus, — A tree or 

 shrub (?) ; leaves petiolate, 2-stichous, entire coriaceous ; stipules 

 lateral small, caducous ; inflorescence axillary ; the males longer 

 with petiole.' (Uast Indies.^) 



24 ? Taxotrophis Bl.^— Flowers dioecious (of /yj^reJ/ws), 4-merous; 

 the males in pedunculate shortly spikelike or capituliform glomeru- 

 liferous catkins ; the females solitary. Fruit longer than slightly 

 increased and persistent calyx ; mesocarp here rather thick, thence 

 laterally thin ; embryo of exalbuminous seed subglobose ; cotyledons 

 subhemispherical fleshy ; radicle very short superior. — A spinous 



' A genus perhaps with Madura to be united aspera Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 278. Trophia 



with the preceding, of which it is a section aapera Retz. Obs. v. 30 (part.). Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 



according to Bl. (XqoiojurB) and Mia. jFi. J«rf.. iii. 761.— 7. coehinchinmais Poir. Diet. viii. 



Sat. i. p. ii. 280. ^ 123.— T. aculeata, Eoth. Nov. PI. Spec. 868.— 



2 Spec. 1. P. spinosum TREC—Wmm:, Icon. Fpicarpurus orientalis Bl.— Wight Icon t 



t. 1963.— Tkw. Enrni. PI. Zeyl. 26S.— Satis 1961.-^'. asper STEVv.—Achymus pallem Sol! 



spimsa'Ro^B.Fl. Ind. in. 7SS. —Tindapania 'Bseed. Hort. Malah. i 87 t 48 



' Fl. Ooehinch. (ed. 1790), 614.— Bub. Prodr. « Prodr. xvii. 219. 



xvii. lU.—Trophi, Eetz. Obs. v. 30 (not L.).— 7 A genus scarcely distinguishable from 



Epiearpurm Bl. Bijdr. 488.— Endl. Gen. n. |S'<»-«4^«» by its compound spuriously racemiform 



1855. inflorescence. 



* Sometimes polygamous (Bi,.). s gpgg_ j p -^^^^^ .^^^ ^^^^ ^.^^ 220. 



s Spec. 1. -S. asper Lour.— Bl. Mus.Lugd.-Sat. s Mm. Lugd-Sat. ii. 77, t. 26 — BuE Prodr 



ii. 79, t. 30.— Thw.. Emm. PI. Zeyl. 264— ;S. xvii. 216. • . . 



