Gironntera,] 



81. DRTICACEiE. 



323 



G. reticulata, Thw. Eniim. 268. Fl. Br. I. 5. 486. Bedd. Fl. Sjlv. 

 t. 313. Sikkim, Assam, Burma. Western Peninsala on the ghats from 

 N. Kauara to Travancorc, in the evergreen forests near Sonda, Hoolikul, 

 &c. Sircy and Siddapore sub-divisions of N. Kilnara. Fl. C. S. Fr. H. S. 



A very large tree 100 ft. high by 4 ft. in diameter, with buttresses 

 at the base. Bark grey, smooth, splitting into thin plates peeling from 

 the bottom upwards, inner bark reddish with white bast, intermixed, 

 very thin, fibrous ; fibres long and strong. Wood said to be valuable. 



6. STREBLUS, Lour. 



Tree or shrub. Leaves alternate^ scabrid ; stipules small. Flowers 

 dioicous, axillary;, males in shortly pedunculate clusters, females 

 peduncled, solitary. Male fl. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, 

 inflexed in bud. Pistillode dilated at the top. Female fl. bracteate. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; style arms long ; ovule 1^ pendulous. Fruit globose, 

 enclosed in the perianth. Seed globose, testa membranous^ albu- 

 men 0. 



S. asper, Lour. Fl. Cochin II. 615 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 489 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 220 ; Brandis For. Fl. 410. Epicarjpurus orierdaVs, Blume, Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 240. Punje^ mittel gidda, mitlij K. ; Po«, hharota, 

 parayio, M. ; Karvati^ Vern. 



Throughout the drier parts of India from E,ohilknnd eastward, and 

 southwards to Travancore, Ceylon. Throughout the presidency in dry 

 open forests, common ; it is also found in the evergreen forests of the 

 North Kanara. Fl. Jany.-Mch. Fr. Apl.-May. 



A small rigid tree. Bark grey, soft, irregularly ribbed. Wood grey, 

 moderately hard, tough and elastic. No annual rings.. Pores small or 

 moderate sized, subdivided in concentric irregular bands of light soft 

 tissue. Medullary rays moderately broad, short, equally distributed. 

 Weighs 48 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for cart wheels, fuel, &c. The leaves 

 are used to polish ivory, horns and wood \ they are steeped in water before 

 use. 



6. PLECOSPERMUM, Trecul. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire^ stipules minute. Flowers 

 dioicous, in globular heads. Male flowers bracteolate ; perianth 4-fid, 

 segments imbricate. Stamens 4, free, inflexed in bud. Female fl. 

 Perianths fleshy, gamophyllous, 4-toothed, connate into a fleshy many- 

 celled head. Ovary f ree^ 1-celIed ; ovule 1, pendulous^ style filiform, ex- 

 serted. Fruit an irregular syncarpium of akenes^ enclosed in the con 

 nate perianth lobes. Albumen ; embryo subglobose, one cotyledon 

 very large fleshy, embracing the smaller folded one ; radicle upcurved. 



P. spinosum, Trecal. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. .3. VIIL 124 ; Fl. Br. L 5 

 491 ; Brandis For. Fl. 401 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 220. 



