CXXIX. URTICACEAS. 
323 
Phyllochlamysi] 
clusters globose sessile puberulous, pale red. Fruit *5 in. through. 
Sepals ovate acuminate, blunt, 75 in. long. Hab. Dry spots, 
Malacca, Chabau and Mt. Ophir. Perak, Gunong Bubu Range 
(Kunstler). Penang Hill, woods below the Waterfall (Wallich, 
Curtis). Kedah, Alor Sta. Perlis, Kanga. Pulau Adang islands, 
Rawai and Nipis. Native name : Gaham Badak. 
(2) P. spinosa Bureau, in DC. Prod. xvii. 218; Hook. fit. F.B.I. 
v. 488. 
Spiny bush or tree. Leaves oblong or ovate acuminate or 
rhomboid, more or less distinctly toothed at the top, base blunt, 
•5 by *2 in., to 3 by 1*5 in. wide, thinner than in Wallichii; 
petioles very short. Male flowers larger. Sepals of fruit longer 
and narrower. Hab. Pahang River, Pulau Chengei. Lankawi, 
Kwah (Curtis). 
I believe these to be identical with the Indian and Ceylon plant, the 
foliage is identical. 
6. STREBLUS, Lour. 
Unarmed shrubs or trees, laticiferous. Leaves scabrid 
alternate. Male flowers in peduncled heads or spikes. Sepals 
4 imbricate. Stamens 4 indexed in bud. Pistillode dilate at top. 
Female solitary or 2 to 4 together; bracteate. Ovary straight; 
style arms very long. Fruit membranous sub-globose not oblique 
covered by persistent sepals. Seed globose. Species 2, Xndo- 
Malayan. 
(1) S. asper Lour. Flor. Cochinchine, ii. 615; Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
v. 489. 
Shrub or small tree; branchlets pubescent. Leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate, tip narrowed, blunt, base narrowed blunt, edge crenate 
or toothed, rather stiff scabrid, coriaceous, 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 
wide; petioles very short, *1 in. long or less. Male heads globose 
solitary or 2. Flowers minute. Females, peduncle slender, -4 in. 
long; flower yellow, about -x in. long; style arms *3 in. long. 
Fruit -2 in. long, pea-shaped. Hab. Dry spots in the north, Penang, 
Perak Road (Curtis). Kedah, Alor Sta; Gunong Geriang, Perlis, 
Kanga. Lankawi, Kwala Kwah. Distnb. India, Cochin China, 
Siam, Malaya, China. 
7 . SLOETIA, Teysm. and Binn. 
Trees. Leaves sub-coriaceous alternate, entire. Flowers 
axillary, spikes solitary or paired, mostly males with a few females, 
2 or 3 near base. Bracts peltate. Male flower, sepals 3 connate. 
Stamens 3, inflexed in bud. Female sepals 4 - Ovary straight; 
style arms very long, slender. Fruit globose, pea-shaped; sepals 
dilate fleshy, white ejecting the fruit on pressure. Species 1 or 
more. Malayan. 
