A^orosa.] Euphorbiacecs . 39 



shining; petiole long, swollen at top, pubescent; sep. pubes- 

 cent; fil. very long, slender, and anthers pubescent; fr. J in., 

 trigonous, backs of lobes bluntly keeled, glabrous, dark green ; 

 seeds dark brown, shining. 



Forests of the dry region, common, and extending rarely into the 

 moist region, as Hantane and Galle. Fl. Nov., March ; pale yellowish- 

 green or pinkish. 



Also at Tinnevelly in S. India. 



The young foHage is a fine rich lake colour. Dries a coppery-brown. 

 Timber excellent. 



16. APOROSA, Bl. 



Trees; 1. entire; fl. very minute, apetalous, dioecious, male 

 numerous, in dense catkin-like spikes, fern, few, in very short 

 spikes or solitary; male fl.: — sep. 4-5, membranous, imbricate, 

 in bud; disk o; stam. 2, exserted, anth. didymous; fem. fl. : — , 

 sep. as in male; ov. 2- or 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, 

 stigmas short, simple or bifid ; fr. more or less ovoid, 2- or 

 3-valved or irregularly dehiscent or indehiscent, epicarp thick; 

 or thin; seeds \-6, often enclosed in a large pulpy aril (?), 

 testa thin, cotyledons flat in fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 30-40 

 28 in FL B. Ind. 



I. A. latifolia, TJnu. Eniim. 288 (1861). Maput-kebella, 

 Kampotta, P^plliya, S. 



Agyneia latifolia. Moon, Cat. 65. Muell. Arg. 1. c. 470. C. P. 3433. ■ 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 347. 



A middle-sized tree; branchlets thick, marked with scars 

 of 1. and stip., glabrous; 1. numerous, crowded, large, 4-6 in., 

 broadly oval or sub-rotundate, cordate or rounded or subacute 

 at base, very obtuse or rounded at apex, thick and leathery, 

 glabrous and shining, dark green; petiole \-\ in,, stout; male 

 fl. very numerous and closely crowded, spikes 1-3 together, 

 1-2 in., fem. fl. sessile in clusters; male fl. : — sep. linear-lanceo- 

 late, rusty-hairy ; stam. exserted ; fem. fl. : — ov. pilose, stigmas 

 reflexed, bilobed; fr. large, f-i in., broadly ovate-ovoid, 

 slightly tapering to a blunt point, tipped with withered styles, 

 smooth, brownish-orange, pericarp thick, spongy-woody, 



