572 CXV. EUPHOEBIACEiE. 



long, linear. Fi-uit globose, fleshy, J-^ iu. in diain., ou Jong thickened 

 pedicels, reddish-brown, -3-4-celled. Seeds 3 or 4, smooth, shining, 

 brow 11, i ill. long. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 'A4d ; Bedd. FJor. Sjlvat. t. 259 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 306 ; Woodr. in .Tourn. J^onib. Nat. v. 12 

 (18U9) p. 370; Praiu, Bang. PL p. 926 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, 

 p. 454. BLsclwffia frifoliata, Hook. Icon. PI. t. 844. Stylodisms tri- 

 foHafas, Benii." PI. Jav. Kar. p. 13:3, t. 29 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 235.— 

 Flowers : Mar.-i\ pr. Vebn. Bok. 



KoNKAN : Sfocts !, Law ! S. M. Countuy : Chorla Ghat, plentiful, Balzell ^- Gibson. 

 Kanaua: evergreen forests of N. Kanara, common on the Ghats, Talbot; Ambgaon, 

 Eitchie, 1341 !— Distrib. of the genus. 



The tree furnislies a very beautiful wood which does not warp and deserves attention 

 {Brandts). 



3. BRIDELIA, Wiild. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, usually quite entire, sometimes 

 with strong nerves and promiuent cross veins. Flowers monoecious or 

 dioecious, small or minute, in axillary or spicate clusters, sessile or 

 shortly pedicellate ; bracts small, scale-like. Male tlgwers numerous. 

 Perianth double. Calyx-segments 5, valvate. Petals 5, short, scale- 

 like, stalked or spathulate. Disk broad, pulviuate or adnate to the 

 calyx-tube. Stamens 5 ; filaments connate below in a column, which 

 bears a terminal pistillode, free and spreading above ; anther-cells 2, 

 parallel. Female floweks few or solitary. Calyx-segments usually 

 narrower than in the male. Disk double, the inner forming a mem- 

 branous central truncate cone often enclosing the young ovary. Ovary 

 2 (rarely 3)-celled, glabrous ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles free or shortly 

 united below, forked or subentire. Fruit a small drUpe with 1 -2 usually 

 single-seeded cocci or pyrenes. Seed with usually fleshy, sometimes 

 membranous albumen ; cotyledons thin or fleshy. — Disthib. Species 

 about 30, Tropical African, Asiatic, and Australian. 



Flowers dioecious. 



A tree ; main iierves of leaves 15-25 pairs, straight ; calyx 



glabrous 1 . B. refusa. 



Flowers inonoecious. 



A large climbing shrub; main nerves of leaves ()-12 pairs, 



slightly arching ; calyx haii-y ; drupe oblong ; style-arms 



long, slender 2. B. stipulnris. 



A straggling shrub; main nerves of leaves 5-9 paiis, 



straight, branciied ; calyx glabrous ; drupe globose ; 



style-arms short, tliiek .3. B. Hamiltoniana. 



^. Bridelia retusa, Sprenfj. Si/tsf. Ve(f. v. 3 (1826) p. 48. A small 

 or iii()drrate-si/,('d deciduous tree, spinous when young ; bark grey. 

 Leaves numerous, 3-0 by l2-2^ in., rigidly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse, subacute or rounded at the a])ex, with entire or slightly 

 crenulate margins, bright green and glabrous above (turning pinkish- 

 brown before falling), glaucous and usually finely tomentose beneath, 

 base usually rounded (rarely cordate) ; main nerves ])roiiiinent, straight, 

 15-25 pairs with finely reticulate venation between; petioles |-^ in. 

 long ; stipules ovate-laticeolate, usually oblique at the base, deciduous. 

 Flowers dioecious, greenish-yellow, sessile or shortly pedicellate, crowded 

 iu dense axillary clusters or on long axillary or terminal, sometimes 



