Anfiarib] 



C. MORAOEiB 



G15 



A very tall tree, attaining 250 ft. trunk often buttressed, young 

 petioles, and midrib velvety. L, glabrous or bairy beneath, elliptic-oblong, 

 nate, entii^e or serrulate, 

 blade 3-6, pet. ^ in. Fl. 

 monoecious, ^ crowded on the 

 surface of flat pedunculate 

 and usually fascicled re- 

 ceptacles, which are sup- 

 ported by imbricating bracts, 

 sepals 3-4, stamens 3-8, 5 

 solitary, enclosed in a pear- 

 shaped involucre of numer- 

 ous confluent bracts, perianth 

 0, ovary adnate to the in- 

 volucre. Fr. red, velvet} 

 fleshy, I in. diam. 



shoots, 

 acu mi- 



Evergreen 



of tlie 



forests 

 Western G-liats from Khandala 

 soutliwardb. Wuntlio, Upper 

 Burma. Eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yoma (Kurz). FL Sept., 

 Oct. Tenasserim. In tlie lower 

 Thaungyin this tree towers 

 over the trees of the dense ever- 

 _ wh-ich have a mean 

 of 200 ft. (Brand is, 

 Attaran Report, 1860, p. 55). 

 Bast very tough, made into ropes 

 and sacks, the bottom of these 

 being a section of the branch. — 

 Ceylon, low country. Malay Penins. and Archip. 



green forest 

 height 



Fia. 190. — Antiaris toxicaria, Leschen ],. 



9. STREBLUS, Lour. ; FL Brit. Ind. v. 489. 



S. asper, Lour, (probably the only species) ; Bedd. Man. t. 26. — Syn. 

 Epicarjpurics orientalis^ Blume ; "Wight Ic. t. 1961. Vern. Stora^ Sahora, 

 Daliia, Hind. ; Poi, Kharota, Paraya, Mar. ; PaJdci, Tel. ; lEtli^ Kan. ; 

 Parayan^ Pira, Tarn. ; Okhn^. Burm. 



A rigid shrub or small scraggy tree, all parts full of milky juice, branchlets 

 hairy. L. elliptic or obovate, penninerved, irregularly dentate, rough on 

 both sides with minute raised round dots, blade 2-4 in., pet. very short, 

 stipules obliquely lanceolate. PL dioecious, cJ ia globose heads, perianth 

 campanulate, deeply 4-fid, pubescent outside, segments imbricate, stamens 

 long, inflexed in bud. $ solitary, on axillary usually fascicled peduncles, 

 ^ in. long, perianth of 4 decussate, closely imbricating sepals, styles 2, fili- 

 form, connate at base. I'r. a yellow, 1-seeded berry, enclosed in the enlarged 

 fleshy sepals. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Beas eastwards. Oudh forests. Bengal. Behar. Both 

 Peninsulas, often near the coast. FL Jan.-March, leaves renewed in March. The L 

 used to polish wood and ivory, paper made of the bast.— Ceylon. Malay Penins. and 

 Archip. S. mitis, Kurz F. PL li. 464, is doubtful. 



Balanostreblus ilicifolia, Kurz. Chittagong. Bhamo. Malay Penins, A small, 

 nearly glabrous evergreen tree, branchlets often spinescent, 1. rigidly coriaceous, 

 shining, spinulose-dentate, broad-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, blade 1-5, pet. J-J in. 

 PL monoecious, ^ in cylindric, catkin-like spikes, V racemose, base of perianth connate 

 with ovary, free above, mouth minute. Pr. a globose drupe, enclosed in the fleshy 

 perianth. 



PHyllochlamys spinosa. Bureau.— Syn. Bpicarpurtis spinoms, Wight lo. t. 1962 (upper 

 and right-hand figures) *, TaxotropMs Moxburghii, Blnme ; Bedd. Man. t. 26 fig. 3 (1-9) 5 

 Strehlus taxoideh, Kurz. Vern. Sukali, Tel. Orissa. Hills of the Northern Circars, 

 the Deccan and the Itarnatik. Andamans. Swamp forests of the Irawadi alluvium — 



