ECPHORBIACE^. 2-11 



C. EOBrsTrs, Kz. E.T. Pegu Range and Tenasserim. 



Leaves coriaceous, bluntish or retuse, adult almost glabrous, lateral nerves faint. 



I X Pedicels terete and often slender. 

 C. ODLOXGiFOLirs, Roxb. Ava, Arakan, Pegu up to 2000 feet and 



Thvt-yin (Kurz) "^'■^'^ cultivated by the Burmese. 



Adult leaves glabrous, coarsely repaiid-scrrate. Capsule the size of a cherry- 

 stone, smooth, seeds 3 lines long. 



C. JouFEA, Roxb. Pegu and ^lartaban. 



Adult loaves glabrous. Capsule the size of a pigeon's egg. Scaly-stellate- 

 puherulose. Seeds | of an inch long. 



X X T/idumenf of ijoiing shoots, of sessile and tuhercle-sfalked stellate hairs. 

 I Leaves 2>eHniHerced or indistinctly Z-nerved at base. 



C. Wallicuii, Aluell. Arg. Tree forests of Eastern Slopes of the 



Pegu Range and Tenasserim. 



Young leaves all over pubescent and adult ernes, beneath. Capsules the size of a 

 pea, minutely puberulous. Seeds 2 lines long. 



{ J Leaves 5-6 nerved at the base. 



+ Capsule obsoletehj S-lobed, or almost terete. Leaves 5-)ierved at base. 

 f Tnflureseenccs glabrous or nearly so. 



*C. TiGLirM, L. All over Burma. 



Ka-na-kho (Kurz). 



Adult parts glabrous, female pedicels thick, silvery-scaly. Male pedicels slender- 

 glabrous. Capsules almost oblong. Used as a hedge plant, it may be seen in all large 

 towns. Cattle and goats eat its leaves, which render the milk violently purgative 

 to infants fed on it. All the plant possesses medicinal properties. The root is a 

 drastic purgative. The wood is a sudorific or in large doses purgative, the dried 

 leaves the same, whilst the seeds are powerfully poisonous and purgative. ^^ aring, 

 however, give the following directions for preparing a cheap and safe purgati\e from 

 them: Boil the seeds thrice in milk, drying them after each operation. Then carefully 

 remove the outer shell and the embryo (the last if allowed to remain causing violent 

 tormina and vomiting). To 3j of the seeds thus prepared add 5ij of catechu, adding 

 a few drops of 01. Month. Pip. and divide into two grain pills. This formula is 

 recommended by Dr. White, and one recommendation of this safe and efficacious 

 medicine is that 500 doses may be contained in a small box, and purchased for half 

 a rupee. The undue operation of tlieso pills may be checked by a ckaught of 

 lemon-juice. 



t f Inflorescences sfellately-pubesce9tt. Leaves often with a stalked gland on the 

 crenatures along the margin. 



A Capsule the size of a pea or larger. 



C. stTBLYRATTJS, Kz. Coast forcsts of the Andamans. 



Young shoots rusty-scurfy. Basal glands of leaves stalked. Cap.sulc sparingly 

 appressed-stellate-hairy. 



C. FLOccuLOscs, Kz. Irrawaddy Yalley. 



Young shoots softly floccosc-stellate. Basal glands of leaves sessile. Capsules 

 densely and softly stellate-tomentose. 



A A Capsules the size of a bullet or pigeon's egg. 

 C. CArDATCs, Geiscl. S.S. Prome and Pegu. 



Young shoots minutely tubercled-stellate hispid. Basal glands of leaves stalked. 

 Capsules minutely tuberclcd, stellate-rough. 



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