Streblus
(from streblos, twisted; in allusion to the twisted branches). SYN. Epicarpurus. ORD. Urticaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a stove, unarmed, glabrous shrub or tree. It thrives in a compost of rich loam and fibry peat or leaf mould. Propagation may be effected by seeds; or by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a bell glass, in heat. S. asper (rough). Paper-tree. fl. dioecious, the males in clustered heads, the females solitary on the peduncles. l. alternate, shortly petiolate, slightly toothed, rather rigid, scabrous, penniveined; stipules lateral, small, deciduous. h. sometimes more than 20ft. Tropical Asia.