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470 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Euphorbia.. 
7. E. Tirucalli, Willd. 2. 890. 
Arboreous, unarmed branchlets, cylindric, susculedls 
polished, from alternate to crowded. Leaves linear, ses-' 
sile. Flowers terminal, and in the forks of the branch- — 
lets. gn 
Tirucalli. Rheed. Mal. 2. t. 44. 
Ossifraga-lactea. Rumph. Amb. 7. t. 29. 
Beng. Lunka sij. 
Tam. Tirw calli. 
A native of various parts of India ; when well advanc- | 
ed in age and size it flowers during the rains. About 
Madras it is very generally employed for fences, and rages 
called Milk hedge. oF 
Trunk of old trees as thick as a man’s thigh or more. 
Bark dark olive-coloured and cracked. Wood white, pret- 
ty close grained, and of a middling hardness, Branches 
very numerous ; young shoots from alternate to crowd: 
ed into the form of an umbel, proliferous, succulent, 
smooth, polished, green points abrupt. Every parta- 
bounding in an acrid milky juice. General height of what 
may be called large trees, twenty feet. Leaves alternate, 
remote, and at the end of the twigs chiefly sessile, lineat; 
smooth, small and fleshy. Flowers at the end of the twigs 
and in the divisions of the branchlets, crowded, subses- 
sile, chiefly female, or abortive hermaphrodite, small, 
pale yellow. Calyx campanulate ; mouth enlarged by 
three or four, or more generally five, flat, roundish, smooth, — 
peltate, horizontal segments, on the inside of the bell, 
woolly. Corol, I could find no other than the peltate s€8°_ 
ments of the calyx. Stamina very uncertain, more fre-! 
ber not found, when present very few, involved in ; 
Anthers two-lobed. Germ pedicelied, woolly, 
Mee with one seed in each attached to thetoP 
of the axis. Style recurved. Stigmas bifid, with enlarged 
glandular heads. Capsule the size of a large pea, villous; 
hard, dark brown, three-lobed, three-celled, six-valved: 
on 
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