ULMAOEM. 199 



milky shrub ; spines axillary (ramules) ; leaves 2-sticlious, shortly 

 pefciolate j stipules lateral small, not caducous ; male inflorescence 

 shortly stipitate ; female flowers solitary, long pedunculate.i {Java.^) 

 25? Phyllochlslinys Bue.^— Flowers dioecious (nearly of Taoso- 

 tropMs or Strebhs), 4-raerous ; males * in subsessile capituliform 

 involucrate inflorescences ; anthers 4, introrse subglobose. Scales of 

 involucre ovate concave, dry, dark-coloured. Eemale flower, 

 gynsecium and other characters of Strebhs. Pruit drupaceous, in- 

 volucrate by accrescent perianth ; albumen of descending laterally 

 affixed seed pulpy, sometimes very thin; cotyledons of somewhat 

 fleshy embryo very unequal ; one conduplicate lobate enfolding the 

 other much smaller. — A spinous shrub ;^ leaves alternate, very shortly 

 petiolate ; stipules small, 2-nate; male- capitules axillary sessile 

 glometate 2-5 ; female flowers axillary solitary long-pedunculate,® 

 (JEast Indies, Java.'') 



26. Siplocos BtTE.^ — Flowers dioecious (nearly of Strehlus), 

 4-merous ; male calyx valvate ; anthers subglobose introrse ; female 

 calyx imbricate, not involucrate. Fruit in part drupaceous ; putamen 

 parchment-like ; seed sometimes pulpy albuminous ; embryo placed at 

 top of albumen, cotyledons equal broad complanate, cordate at base, 

 conduplicate ; radicle long curved turned to hilum and enfolded in 

 base of cotyledons. Other characters of Strebhs. — A branched 

 shrub somewhat spinous ; leaves alternate subelliptic membranous, 



. shortly petiolate ; stipules small, serrate above, caducous ; male 

 flowers ' in broken cymiferous catkins, bracteate ; female in axillary 

 (spurious) racemes, shorter than the leaf, cymosely subcorymbiform 

 ebracteate. (Oe^lon}") 



27. Dorstenia Plum." — Flowers monoecious; male oftener 2- 



1 Better a section of Streblus ? rensis Done, Serb. Timor, t. 21. — Trqphis apinosa 



2 Spec. 1. T. javanica Bl. — Mia. Fl. Ind.- Koxb. Fl. Ind. 762. — T. tamformis Spreng. 

 Bat. i. p. ii. 278. — Urtiea? spinosa Bl. JBiJdr. Syet. iii. 902.— Hook, and Arw. ap. BeecA. 

 507. — Fpicarpurus javanica Bl. 215. — T. taxoides Hbyn. Moth. Nov. PI. Ind. 



' Prodr. xvii. 217. 368.— f. ? Eeyneana Wail. Oat. n. 4642.— 



* Tlie adult stamens are said to be furnished Taxotrophis Boxbwghii Bl. Mus. Iiugd.-Bat. 



with elongate incurved filaments (and are so ii. 78. — Thw. Enrnn. Fl. Zeyl. 264. — Mia. Fl. 



represented, in Wight's figure), in the younger Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 279. 



state they appear to us shorter and erect (after ' Prodr. xvii. 215. 



the manner of the Artocarpeee), a genus hence ' Green. 



apparently very near to Cvdrania. •" Spec. 1. D. zeylaniea Bun. — Epicarpunis 



^ With the habit and branches of Car<?%y«e. zeylaniea Thw. Sook. Land. Journ. (1852), 1, 



« Better a section of Streblus, notwithstanding 3, t. 2. — M. zeylanieus Wight, Icon. t. 196 



the involucre of the male flower. {yaxt.). ^Taxotrophis zeylaniea Thw. Fnum. PI. 



'Spec. 1. P. spinosa Bde. — JEpiearpwas Zeyl. 26i (ii D.macrqphylla is of this gemia??). 



spinosns Wight, Ic. t. 1962 (part.).— £. timo- " Nov. PI. Amer. Gen. 29, t. 8.— L. 6en. n. 



