268 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Bridelia. 
tube ; of the female with the centre conical, membranous, truncate, often 
enclosing the young ovary. Stamens 5; filaments united below in a column 
which bears a terminal pistillode, free above and spreading ; antheris 
parallel. Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled, glabrous; styles 2, forked ; ovules 2 1n 
each cell. Drupe small, with 1-2 usually 1-seeded cocci or pyrenes. Albumen 
fleshy or membranous ; cotyledons thin or fleshy.— Species about 30, Tropic 
African, Asiatic and Australian. 
* Nerves 8-20 (rarely fewer than 12) pair. 
1. B. retusa, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 48; shoots and leaves beneath 
glabrous or tomentose, leaves rigidly coriaceous elliptic oblong ovate or 
obovate tip acute obtuse or rounded, base acute obtuse or cordate, nerva 
15-20 pairs strong straight parallel, flowers diœcious in axillary or spicate 
clusters sessile or pedicelled glabrous or pubescent, calyx-lobes ovate acata, 
petals of male orbicular crenate, of fem. subspathulate, fruit globose mete 
on the hardly enlarged calyx. Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. 1.493; Bait. 
Etudes Gen. Euphorb. t. 25, fig. 25-34; Thwaites Enum. 279; Brand. for, 
Fl. 449, t. 55; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 368; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 306 ; "ar 
dome Fl. Sylvat. t. 260. B. amcena, Wall. ex Baill. l.c. (fid. Muell.). PL 
montana, Wall. Cat. 7879 (in part); Baill. 1. c. 583; Grah. Cat.. Bomb. a 
184; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 233. B. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. in. $7 
Wall. Cat. 1883 B in part; Grah. l.c. 184. Cluytia retusa, Linn. Sp. t 
1042. C. spinosa, Willd. in Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 38, t. 172. Andrachne 
Doonkyboisca, Herb. Heyne; Wall. Cat. sub 7879.—Rheede Hort. Mal. u. 
t. 16. 
Throughout the hotter parts of INDIA, along the foot of the Himalaya from 
Kashmir to Mishmi, ascending to 3500 ft. and thence southward to BURMA, 
MALACCA, TRAVANCOR and CEYLON. : 
A deciduous-leaved large shrub, or a tree 50-60 ft.; young spinous. Leaves 8-5 Ppr 
base rarely acute, glabrous above, glabrous and glaucous beneath, or finely pubescer, : 
petiole 1-1 in. Bracts small, obtuse, villous. Flowers in clusters of about 4 = 
diam., both axillary and in long spikes, pubescent or glabrous, of which the males 
very slender. Calyx 3 in. diam., tube pubescent, lobes usually glabrous. D k 
male pulvinate, of fem. enclosing the young ovary. Fruit size of a pea, purple-b "i me 
cocci dehiscing.—Mueller wakes three varieties, of which the third is the most fi 
tinct. I add a fourth. Of Wallich's B. amæna I have seen no specimens ; Bail i 
took it up from a plant so named on Wallich's authority in Gaudichaud's herbarm s 
and presumably procured in Calcutta; he says it is very near B. retusa, and Mote 
who, I assume, examined it, united it with that plant. Kurz’s amena 18 © 
manica. 
B. RETUSA PROPER ; spikes sometimes a foot long, slightly pubescent. 
Van. squamosa ; flowers axillary or in short tomentose spikes. leaves 
Var. Roxburghiana; branchlets and leaves beneath densely tomentose, 73 4; 
smaller oblong tip rounded pale when dry. B. crenulata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. m. 4 
fall. Cat. 7880. — Chiefly in the Deccan Peninsula. so glabrous 
Var. glauca; quite glabrous, leaves as in var, Rowburghiana, but quite € a 
and very glaucous beneath,— Deccan Peninsula. 
2. B. Moonii, Thwaites Enum. 279 ; branchlets glabrous or pubescens 
leaves large coriaceous elliptic-oblong or obovate tip acute obtuse or Tour tl 
reticulate above puberulous beneath, nerves 12-14 pair strong s A 
arched with strong cross-nervules, flowers monecious P minute 1n ls of 
axillary clusters sessile glabrous, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, peta t 
male orbicular irregularly lobed, of fem. oblong, fruit ellipsoid acute & A975 
ends seated on the unaltered calyx. Mueller Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV. * 
