34 E^lphorbiaceCE. \Putranjiva. 



A much-branched bush ; twigs slender, angular, glabrous ; 

 bark smooth, grey; 1. numerous, distichous, on short petioles, 

 |-i in., rotundate-oval, often slightly emarginate, entire, 

 glabrous, glaucous, paler beneath, thin ; stip. small, triangular, 

 persistent; fl. with the young 1. few, solitary, on slender ped.; 

 the lower ones male, drooping ; the upper female, erect, smaller ; 

 male fl. : — cal. turbinate, bell-shaped, truncate, or very faintly 

 lobed ; anth. adnate to column ; fem. fl. : — cal.-segm. deep, 

 rounded, in two series, st}'les 3, bifid ; fr. globose-depressed, 

 faintly 3-lobed, supported on the greatly enlarged, flattened 

 cal, pericarp thick, orange-red, fleshy, but dehiscent into 

 3 valves ; seeds 6, triquetrous, each nearly, or quite, covered 

 with an orange-yellow aril, testa perforate at the hilum. 



Low country in both moist and dry regions, to 3000 ft. ; common. 

 Fl. April-June ; male lemon-yellow, fem. pale green. 



Also in India and Burma. 



Has an alliaceous scent ; the fruit is orange-red when ripe, and 

 dehiscent though fleshy. 



2. S. rhamnoides, Mitel!. Ar^. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 440 (1866). 

 Gas-kayila, ^S*. lHanipulnati, T. 



Phy/lanihiis 7-ha)imoidcs Willd. ; Moon, Cat. 65. Melanthesa rham- 

 noides, Bl. ; Thw. Enum. 285. C. 2141. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 339. Wight, Ic. t. 1898, f. i {Phyllanthus rhamnoides). 



A small tree or bush, with many long horizontal branches; 

 bark yellowish-grey ; twigs angular, glabrous ; 1. numerous, 

 distichous, spreading, on short petioles, i-i^ in., oval, acute 

 at both ends, entire, glabrous, thin, pale beneath, veins in- 

 conspicuous ; stip. minute, subulate ; fl. on slender ped., male 

 very small, in clusters, fem. solitary; male fl. : — cal, turbinate, 

 segm. short, obtuse, inflexed, nearly closing the mouth ; stam.- 

 column short ; fem. fl. : — cal. cup-shaped, segm. acute ; ov. 

 much exserted, oblong, truncate, styles very short ; fr. small, 

 globose, J- in., seated on the scarcely enlarged cal., smooth, 

 dull red; seeds ^ in., aril o, testa imperforate except at the 

 very base. 



Low country in the moist region, to 3000 ft.; common. Fl. July; 

 yellow. 



India, Burma, China, Malaya, Philippine Is. 

 Dries nearly black. 



12. PUTRANJIVA,* I I'd//. 

 Trees ; fl. small, in a.xillary clusters ; apetalous, usually 

 dioecious; male fl.: — cal. deeply cut into 3-6 segm., or of 2 



* From the Sanskrit name (see Roxb. Fl, Ind. iii. 766), 



