470 DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. EuphorUa. 



7. E. Tirucalli. Willd. 2. 890. 



Arboreous, unarmed branchlets, cylindric, succulent, 

 polished, from alternate to crowded. Leaves Yxnear, ses- 

 sile. Flowers terminal, and in the forks of the branch- 

 lets. 



Tirucalli. Rheed. Mai 2 t. 44. 



Ossifraga lactea. Rumph. Amb. 7. t. 29. 



Beng. Lwnka sij. 



Tarn. Tim 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 there 

 called Milk hedge. 



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 part a- 

 boundiiigin 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, linear, 

 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 jjenerally five, flat, roundish, smooth, 

 peltate, horizontal segments, on the inside of the bell, 

 woolly. Coral, I could find no other than the peltate seg- 

 ments of the calyx. Stamina very uncertain, more fre- 

 quently not found, when present very few, involved in 

 wool. An'.hers two-lobed. Germ pedicelled, woolly, 

 three-celled, with one seed in each attached to the top 

 of the axis. <Sfi//e recurved. -S^i^wjcw bifid, with enlarged 

 glandular heads. Capsule the size of a large pea, villous, 

 hard, dark brown, three-iobed, three-celled, six-valved' 



