50 Euphorbiacece. \Givotia. 



A small tree; bark smooth, grey; young parts stellate- 

 hairy; 1. 2i-4 in., oval, acute at base, subacute, sparingly 

 serrate, glabrous beneath, with very minute scurf above mixed 

 with scattered distant stellate hairs, rather thick, strongly 

 3-nerved at base; racemes long, slightly stellate-hairy; sep. 

 sparsely stellate-hairy, in male obtuse with membranous 

 margins; styles divided to base; fr. over \ in., woody; dis- 

 tinctly 3-lobed with keeled lobes, slightly rough with small 

 thickened bases of stellate hairs, top depressed. 



Lower montane zone, 3-5000 ft. ; rather rare. Ramboda; Dickoya; 

 Nitre Cave Dist. ; Lagalla. Fl. April, Sept. 

 Endemic. 



21. GIVOTIA, GriSr. 



Tree; 1. palmately nerved; fl. moderate-sized, dioecious, in 

 terminal panicles, male panicles long, fem. very short; sep. 5, 

 unequal, imbricate; pet. 5, connate into a cylindrical cor.; 

 male fl.: — stam. about 15, on a woolly receptacle, outer 

 shorter, fil. connate below; pistillode o; fem. fl.: — ov. 

 2-3-celled, with one ovule in each cell, styles short, bifid; 

 fr. a subglobose, i -celled, hoary drupe, f-i in. diam., with 

 thin crustaceous endocarp; seed solitary, large, globose, testa 

 bony, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons broad, flat. — Monotypic. 



G. rottleriformis, Gri_ff. in Calc. Joiirn. Nat. Hist. iv. 388 (1844). 

 Futtalai, T. 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 346. Croton moli/ccanuin, L. Sp. PI. 1005 (chiefly). 

 Thw. Enum. 278. C. P. 1139. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 395. Wight, Ic. t. 1889. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 285. 



A small tree; branchlets very stout, rather succulent, 

 smooth, marked with prominent leaf-scars; young parts scurfy 

 tomentose, with stellate hairs; 1. variable in size, 3-7 in., 

 broadly oval or rotundate, often broader than long, more or 

 less cordate at base, acute or subacute, coarsely and irregularly 

 dentate or incised, palmately veined, glabrous above when 

 mature, densely coated beneath with a yellowish or fulvous 

 tomentum of stellate hair; petiole about as long as leaf, 

 stellate-hairy, with a few glands half way up, and one at the 

 summit; bracts on infi. linear; sep. stellate-hairy outside; fil. 

 hairy; fr. globose-ovoid, about i in., smooth, green, indehis- 

 cent; seed nearly globose, purplish. 



Dry region ; rather rare. JaflTna Dist.; Puttalam; DambuUa; Unia- 

 oya. Fl. Aug. ; yellow. 

 Also in S. India. 



