r)y2 CXV. EUPHORBIACBJE. 



undulate margins, base usuall}'^ acute, often unequal-sided ; main nerves 

 5-8 pairs, slender, with reticulate venation between ; petioles 5-5 in. 

 long, stout. Male floweks in clusters in the axils or on the old wood. 

 Pedicels 0-1 in. long. Sepals 5, orbicular, |.-4 in. indiani., coriaceous, 

 wlabrous, Aeined, concave. Disk funnel-shaped, glabrous, radiately 

 ribbed inside and w ith a membranous lobed border. Stamens about 20, 

 outside tlie disk ; iilaments reaching | in. long, stout ; anthers J„- in. 

 long, oblong. Female flowers : Calyx, ovary, and style not seen, llie 

 specimens in Herb. Kew. being males. Fruit according to Talbot 

 (Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 306) yellow, smooth, size of a small orange, 

 flattened, 2-seeded. Seeds plano-convex, | in. long, rough. Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 306; Woodr. in Jourii. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 370. — Flowers : L)ec. Vern. Augai-mara. 



Rare. Kanara: evergreen forests at Katgal, Talboi, 277 ! — Distrib. India (N. 

 Kanara). 



15. ANTIDESMA, Linn. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire ; stipules narrow. Flowers 

 dioecious, small or minute, in slender axillary or terminal simple or 

 branched spikes or racemes. Perianth simi)le. Male flowers : Calyx 

 3-5 (rarely 6-8)-]obed or -partite. Petals 0. Disk entire or lobed. 

 Stamens 2-5 (rarely more), inscribed (often irregularly) on or around the 

 disk; filaments inflexed in bud; anthers lunate or didymous, the cells 

 o-lobose, approximate or distant ; connective thickened. Pistillode 

 minute, clavate or globose (rarely 2-fld), glabrous or liairy, 8omelim(>s 

 obsolete. Female flowers : Calyx as in the male. Disk usually 

 annular or pulvinate. Ovary 1-celled : ovules 2, pendulous; stigmas 

 2-4, usually short, 2-fid or 2-partite. Fruit a small drupe, more or less 

 compressed, crowned by the sublateral or terminal stigmas. Seed small ; 

 albumen fleshv ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distiub. Tropical Asia, Africa, 

 Australia, Polynesia ; species 60-70. 



Leaves very obtuse ; ovary pubescent or tonientose ; calyx 5-7- 



partite; staiiicus 4-7 1- A. GhascmhiUa. 



Leaves acute or acuminate; ovary glabrous; calyx cupular, 

 4-lobed. 



Male flowers sessile ; stamens 3 2. A. Buniiis. 



Male llowei's pedicellate. 



Stiunens 2 3- A. diandrum. 



Stamens 3-4 4. A. Menam. 



1. Antidesma Ghsesembilla, Giertn.. Fruct. v. 1 (1788) p. 189, 

 t. ;V.l. A small deciduous tree; l>ark grey: branchlets pubescent or 

 fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 2-4 by l^-S^ in., broadly elli|>tic or orbi- 

 cular-oblong, rounded at the apex, sometimes emarginate, glabrous or 

 nearly so above, pubescent or tomentose beneath, base rounded ; main 

 nerves 5-7 pairs; jK'tioles 4-.4 in. lone, pubescent; stipules J in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute, i'lowers sessile, in slender ])aniculate spikes. Male 

 flowers : Calyx 5-7-pariite, densely fulvous-hairy, ^\y in. across when 

 spread out flat. Stamens 4-7; filaments Jg- in. long; aiithers some- 

 what borseshoe-sha])ed. Disk 5-partite, pubescent. Female flowers : 

 Calyx as in the n)ale. Ovary densely puhesecMit ; st^igmas minute, 

 recurved, j^'niit subglobose when fresh, I in. in di:im., reddish-purple, 

 edible. Fl. B. 1. v. 5, p. 357 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. cc: 



