Trenta.] cxxix. urticace^. 3*9 
Shrubs .trees or herbs; flowers spicate or clustered; 
male flowers 2- to 5-sepaled; female, 
tubular enclosing achene. 
Shrubs. Heads distant on spikes; fruiting 
perianth dry . . ■ • .23. Bcehmeria 
Herbs; flower heads sessile axillary; fruiting 
perianth dry ..... 24. Pouzolzia 
Trees or shrubs; perianth fleshy, white or 
coloured in fruit. 
Ovary free; stigma linear . . .25. Pipturus 
Ovary adnate; stigma sub-peltate. Tree 26. Villebrunea 
O vary adnate; stigma penicillate. Rough 
shrub ...... 27. Debregeasia 
1 . TREMA, Lour. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate serrate, 3- to 7-nerved 
from base. Flowers in small axillary cymes, unisexual, bisexual. 
Males, sepals 4 to 5 valvate. Stamens 4 to 5. Females, sepals 
flat sub-imbricate as male. Ovary sessile; style terminal, arms 
linear. Drupe small, orange or red; endocarp hard. Species 
about 30, tropics. 
Leaves thin, glabrous . . . • • . (1) T. virgata 
Leaves rather thick, hairy beneath. 
Leaves narrow, base slightly narrowed , . (2) T. angustifolia 
Leaves broad and long, base cordate . . . (3) T. amboinensis 
(1) T. virgata Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. But. ii. 60. T. timorensis 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 483 (not of Blume). 
Low shrub with slender pubescent branches. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, glabrous, ovate long, acuminate, base round, edge serrate, 
2*75 to 3 in. long, *75 in. wide; petioles slender, *25 in. long. Cymes 
glabrous, *25 in. long. Drupe -12 in. long, orange. Hab. Waste 
ground, not very common, Singapore (Murton). Malacca (Griffith, 
Cuming). Selangor, Sungei Buluh. Perak, Tapah (Wray). Tring- 
ganu, Bundi (Rostados). Penang, Bagian Jennal (Curtis, 
Wallich). Distrib. China, Bangka, Java, Borneo, Tenasserim. 
(2) T. angustifolia Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 58; Hook. fit. 
F.B.I. v. 484. 
Shrub; branches slender, rough short, hairy. Leaves thick, 
membranous, ovate acuminate, base broad minutely narrow, 
closely serrulate pustular scabrid above; nerves hairy beneath, 
2*5 in. long, -6 to *75 in. across; petioles *2 in. long, hairy. Cymes 
compact, -15 in. long, pubescent. Drupe orange. Hab. Common, 
waste ground, edges of woods, Singapore, Chan Chu Kang; Changi; 
Paterson Road. Malacca, Mt. Ophir; Bukit Bruang (Derry). 
Selangor, Kwala Lumpur (Curtis). Negri Sembilan (Cantley). 
Penang Hill (Curtis, King). Distrib. Borneo. Native names: 
Menkira Lalat; Menkiri putih. 
(3) T. amboinensis Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 61; Hook. fil. 
F.B.I. v. 484. 
Shrub to a small tree about 15 ft. tall; branches pubescent. 
