4o Euphoi'biacecE. [Aporosa. 



tardily dehiscent from below into 3 very thick valves, each 

 again splitting down centre; seeds usually 3, cotyledons 

 green. 



Moist region, below 1000 ft. ; rather rare. Kiikul Korale; Kalutara. 

 About Moragala, Pasdun Korale; frequent. Fl. March, April. 



Endemic. 



A handsome little tree from the large glossy foliage. Wood very 

 hard and durable. Fruit eaten. 



2. A. Ziindleyana, Bail/. Et. Geti. Eiiph. 645 (1858). Kebella, 

 Barawa-embilla, .S. 



Scepa IJndleyana, Wight, Ic. ii. i, 5. Thw. Enum. 288. C. P. 

 2153- 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 349. Wight, Ic. t. 361. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 286. 



A middle-sized much-branched tree; bark brown, smooth; 

 young parts glabrous; 1. 2^-4 in., on short glabrous petioles, 

 ovate-oval, rounded at base, slightly acuminate, obtuse, 

 undulate, glabrous and shining, rather stiff; stip. large, 

 lanceolate, acute, soon deciduous; male fl. sessile, spikes 1-4 

 together, ^-2 in. long, dense; sep. 4, ciliate; stam. 2-3; fern, 

 fl. on short ped., racemes very short ; sep. small, ovate, acute, 

 glabrous; ov. flask-shaped, bristly-hairy, style stout, with 3 

 large laciniate recurved stigmas ; fr. over ^ in., nearly globose, 

 pointed with style, glabrous, pericarp thin, indehiscent; seed 

 solitary, with a yellow pulpy covering. 



Moist region, to 2000 ft. ; common. Fl. Jan., Feb. 

 Also in S. India. 

 The fruit is eaten. 



3. A. lanceolata, Thw. Emcm. 288 (1861). Kin-kebella, .S". 

 Agyneia miiltiloculafis, Moon, Cat. 65. Lepidostachys lanceolata^ 



Tul. in Ann. .Sc. Nat. 3, xv. 254. C. P. 2152. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 351. 



Small tree; branches slender; young parts glabrous; 1. 

 3-5 in., oblong-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, acute at base, 

 glabrous, .somewhat shining, stiff; petiole \-\ in., slender; 

 stip. as long as, or longer than, petiole, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 soon falling; fl. .sessile, very small; male spikes short, \-l in., 

 2-6 in a cluster, bracts very broad, ciliate; fem. fl. in very 

 small clusters of 3 or 4; ov. 2-celled, stigmas 2, very minute, 

 entire; fr. small, \ in., in small nearly sessile axillary clusters, 

 nearly globose, glabrous, 2-valved ; seed usually solitary, with 

 a yellow pulpy coat. 



Moist region, up to 2000 fl. ; common, especially below 1000 ft. Fl. 

 Jan.-March ; yellow. 



Endemic. 



The leaves dry a very pale j'ellow-green. The pulp round the seed is 

 edible. 



