Trewia
(named in honour of C. J. Trew, 1695-1769, of Nuremberg, a botanical author). SYN. Rottlera (of Willdenow). ORD. Euphorbiaceae. A genus consisting of only two species of stove trees, often branched from the base, with soft wood, natives of the East Indies. Flowers dioecious, apetalous; disk none; male racemes lateral, opening before the leaves, long and loose, the flowers rather large, solitary, pedicellate, with a bract; female flowers solitary on an axillary peduncle or indefinitely racemose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, broad, entire, three to five-nerved. T. nudiflora, the only species introduced, succeeds in a compost of sandy loam and peat; it may be readily increased by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat. T. nudiflora (naked-flowered). fl., racemes axillary; males often exceeding the leaves, bearing flowers along nearly the whole of their length; females few-flowered. May. l. broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, cordate, obtuse or contracted-sub-cuneate at base, five-nerved, entire. Branchlets glabrous, or the young ones pubescent. h. 5ft. and upwards. East Indies, 1796. (B. F. S. 281.)