Putranjiva.] CXXXV. BUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 837 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 236; Endl. Ic. Gen. t. 19. P. sphærocarpa & 
amblyocarpa, Muell. Arg. l. c. 443, 444. Nageia Putranjiva, Row. FL Ind. 
in. 766.— Wall. Cat. 7889.— Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. t. 59. 
Throughout TROPICAL INDIA, wild and cultivated, from the lower Himalaya in 
Kumaon, eastwards and southwards to Pegu and CEYLON. 
À moderate-sized evergreen tree, shoots pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., obtuse, acute 
or acuminate. Flowers small, yellow; males in dense axillary clusters, shortly 
pedicelled ; fem, solitary or in pairs, sepals minute, pedicels 1-lin. pubescent. Fila- 
ments more or less connate Ovary tomentose, stigmas 3, cuneately semi-lunar. 
Fruit from globose to ovoid, size of a cherry or smaller, white-tomentose ; putamen 
hard, wrinkled. 
2. P. zeylanica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 444; quite gla- 
hrous, leaves lanceolate acuminate gland-dotted beneath, sepals of male 2 of 
fem. 4, stamens 2, Beddome Forester's Man. 197, and Fl. Sylvat. t. 275 (the 
lower left-hand compartment).  Palenga zeylanica, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. 
Bot. viii. (1856) 271, t. 7 C, and Enum. 287; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 649. 
CEYLON ; at Ambagamowa, alt. 2000 ft., Thwaites. _ u 
, A glabrous tree, 20-40 ft.; branches terete. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in., oblique, 
shining ; petiole 1 in., rugnlose; stipules minute. Flowers white, yẹ in. long; 
pedicels about as long. Fruit 3 in. long, tomentose. 
16. HEMICYCLIA, Wight & Arn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen, alternate, petioled, quite entire, base 
usually very unequal. Flowers small, pedicelled, dicecious, apetalous ; males 
clustered at the axils or nodes; females subsolitary. Mare FL. Sepals 4-5, 
imbricate, inner usually larger and subpetaloid. Stamens 4-23, inserted 
round an orbicular disk, filaments free ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pis- 
tillode 0, Fem. vr, Calyx of the male. Disk flat, annular. Ovary obliquely 
ovoid, 1-(rarely 9.)eelled; stiemas 1, rarely 2, sessile, or on a short style, 
broadly reniform, flabelliform, orbicnlar ; ovules 2in each cell Fruit ovoid, 
oblong, pyriform or globose, endocarp hard. Seeds oblong, grooved on one 
face, arilled ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.— Species 9, Indian, 
alayan and Australian. 
* Fruit globose, terete; endocarp bony. 
l. H. sepiaria, Wight & Arn. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xiv. 297; 
nearly glabrous. leaves very came i broadly elliptic or oblong tip rounded 
ortuse Or retuse entire or repand-toothed, base rounded or cordate, stamens 
8-10, fruit small pisiform. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. n. 487 ; ge 
Ts t. 1872; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 999; Beddome Forester's Man om 
Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Bot. (1855) 271, and Enum. 287 ; Baill, Wall 
Gon. Euphorb. t, 97, f, 7, 8, Periplexis, Wall. Cat. 8022. P. rigida, Wall. 
mss, 
Dzccax PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards, ascending to 3000 ft 
YLON ; from the sea coast to 1500 ft. N . 
h rigid, much-branched shrub, 6-9 ft.; shoots puberulous. Leaves Tet in., 
ard and almost shining when old, pale brown when dry, net late clusters or 
petiole 4-1 in, Flowers villous; male 1 in. diam., in axillary brac be ‘sil ith th 
pup bening into short racemes, pedicels i-t in., Sliform ; fem, su sessile, with the 
cent pedicels elongating in fruit, Sepals 4, broad. Stame , i 
and a cupular disk with a waved margin; filaments slender, exserted. Ovary 
~Preelled ; stigma peltate, orbicular, or semicircular. Fruit j in. diam., one-seeded, 
z 2 
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