468 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. EupJlOibia. 



Beng. Sij. 



It grows to be a small, poor looking tree, delighting in 

 an almost dry, barren soil. Flowering time the hot season. 



3. E. antiquorum. Willd. 2. 881. 



Shrubby, leafless. Branches spreading, triangular, 

 armed with double spines at the protuberances of the an- 

 gles. Peduncles solitary or in pairs ; three-flowered. 



Sanscrit. Seehoondee. 



Beng. Nara-shij. 



Teling. Buma chumadoo. 



Schadida calli. Rheed. Mai 2. t. 42. 



Very common on barren uncultivated lands all over 

 India. In Bengal it blossoms during the cold season. 



4. E. arborescens. R. 



Arboreous, leafless. Branches numerous, ascending, 

 triangular, armed, as in antiquorum. 



Native place uncertain, but I believe, Bengal. In the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta it grows to be a pretty large 

 tree, with a round distinct trunk, and numerous branches 

 forming a large, dense, subglobular head. 



5. E. lacfea. R. 



Shrubbj, erect. Branches erect, appressed, triangular, 

 armed, leafless. 



A native of the Moluccas, diflering from antiquorum 

 in being more slender, in having the centre of the three 

 sides milky coloured, and particularly in the erect ap- 

 pressed habit of he numerous branches. It has been 

 twelve years in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, but has 

 not yet blossomed. 



6. E. trigona. R. 



Shrubby, three-sided ; angles deeply repand with a 

 pair of short spines, and a large seosile obovate cuneate 



