CXT. EUPHORBIACEiE. 581 



i. Fluggea microcarpa, Blume, Bijdr. (1825) p, 580. A large 

 luiariued glaljrous shrub ; bark grey, with small lenticular specks ; 

 branchlets angular. Leaves variable, tliin, 1-3 by f-l| in., elliptic or 

 obovate, rounded, obtuse (rarely subacute), glabrous, somewhat glaucous 

 and reticulately veined beneath, base usually acute ; main nerves 5-7 

 pairs, very slender ; petioles ^-\ in. long. Flowers in axillary clusters 

 from a crowd of miuute bracts, the males very numerous, the females 

 usually 1-5 (rarely several). Male elowebs : Pedicels filiform, some- 

 times reaching | in. long. Sepals ^^ by 3^ in., obovate-obloug, obtuse, 

 concave. Stamens 3-5; filaments slender, free, sometimes 72 ^"- ^^ 

 more long, with alternate glands at the base. Pistillode large, 3-fld. 

 Female flowers : Pedicels rarely reaching \ in. long. Sepals as in the 

 uiale. Ovary glabrous, ovoid or subglobose ; styles 3, about -^^^ in. long, 

 deeply divided into "2 linear acute segments. Fruit globose, of 2 kinds, 

 one g-^ in. in diam., with a dry pericarp, the other ^ in. in diam., white 

 with a fleshy pericarp which is edible. Seeds rounded on the back with 

 acute faces, very uiinutely punctulate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 328 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 304 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 370 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 931. Flw/r/ea Leucopyrus, Ualz. & Gibs, 

 p. 23G (not of Willd.). PhijUanthns retuVas, Eoxb. F1. Ind. v. 3, p. 657; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 180, Chorisatvira jyhmata, Wight, Icon. t. 1994. Secu- 

 rwega ohovata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. v. 15, part 2, p. 449 ; Bedd. 

 For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cxcvii. — Flowers : May-June. Vern. 

 Pdndharj^halli. 



Throughout the Presidency widely spread in deciduous forests. Sind : Shocks I — 

 DiSTRiB. Througiiout India; China, Malay Islands, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



2. Pluggea Leucopyrus, WiUd. ;Sp. Fl. v. 4 (1805) p. 757. A 

 large risfid busli with sonieu hat straggling branches ; branchlets angular, 

 slender, leafy, usually ending in sharp spines. Leaves §-1 by g-g in. 

 (rarely reaching 1| by 1 in.), obovate, or obcordate, or rotundate, glaucous 

 and reticulately veined beneath. Flowers as in Flug'jea microcarpa. 

 Fruit globose, about | in. in diam., smooth, quite white when ripe, 

 3-celled ; styles 3, bifid. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 328 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1875; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 33; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 305; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 370. Fluggea virosa, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bo. Fl. (1861) p. 236. Securinega Leucopgrus, Muell. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. v. 15, ])art 2, p. 451 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. cxcvii. — Flowers : May. Veen. Pdndharphalll. 



Throughout the Presidency and Sind, usually iia open situations, Talbot. Konkan : 

 Malabar and Worli Hills (Eouibay), Dalzcll tf- Gibson. Deccan : Parvati Hill near 

 Voona,, Kanltka}-\\ near Wad i Station, 5/iUw ! ; Purandhar, 5/«y«! — Distrib. India 

 (Panjab, Birma, W. Peninsula); Ceylon. 



9. SAUROPUS, Bhmie. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, distichous, mem- 

 branous, quite entire ; stipules minute. Flowers pedicellate, monoecious, 

 minute, axillary, clustered or solitary. Perianth simple. Male 

 ELOWEBS : Sepals connate in a disk-like urceolate or turbinate 6-lobed 

 or 6-cleft calyx : moutli small with superficial tliickenings that meet 

 round the stamens. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate 



