602 CXV. EUPHORBIACBJE. 



20. GIVOTIA, Griff. 



A small stellately tomentose tree. Leaves alternate, rounded and 

 cordate, isinnate-toothed, 5-9-nerved at the base. Flowers in axillary 

 and subteriuiual racemose or paniculate cymes, dioecious. Disk entire 

 or lobed. Male flowers : Sepals 5, broad, unequal, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, longer, cohering in a subglobose 5-lobed corolla. Disk of 

 orbicular glands. tStainens 13-25, crowded on a woolly receptacle ; 

 lilaments connate below, erect ; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, the cells 

 parallel. Pistillode 0. Female flowers : Perianth of the male. Disk 

 cupular. Ovary 2-3-celled ; ovule solitary in each cell ; styles short, 

 spreading, 2- fid. Dru|)e subglobose ; putamen crustaceous, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded. Seed globose or ellipsoid ; testa bony ; albumen fleshy ; 

 cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. Western Peninsula of India, Ceylon; 

 species 1. 



1. Givotia rottleriformis, (^rfiff- in CaJc. Joum. Nat. Hist. v. 4 

 (1844) p. 388. A soft-wooded middle-sized tree with stout branches; 

 branchlets, i)etioles, underside of leaves, and sepals densely clothed with 

 white stellate tomentum. Leaves 5-10 in. long and nearly as broad as 

 long, broadly ovate or rotundate, cordate with a deep sinus, coarsely and 

 irregularly dentate or incised, paimately nerved, acute, coriaceous, hoary 

 becoming glabrous above, densely clothed beneath with white woolly 

 stellate tomentum ; nerves 5-7, basal, with se\ eral pairs above them ; 

 petioles stout, woolly-tomentose, 4-() in. long, often with 1 or 2 glands. 

 Flowers dioecious, in axillary paniculate dense or lax-flowered cymes 

 4-8 in. long near the ends of the branches; pedicels jointed; bracts 

 narrow, linear. Sepals 5, stellately hairy outside. Petals 5, longer 

 than the sepals, more or less cohering. Male flowers : Disk of 5 

 orbicular glands. Stamens 13-25 ; filaments connate below, erect, 

 hairy at the base, on a woolly re(e])tacle. Sepals \ in. long. Corolla 

 \ in. long, campanulate with rounded lobes. Female flowers: Disk 

 cup-.-'haped. Ovarv stellately hairv, 2-3-celled. Drupe |-1 in. in diam., 

 subglobose. J'l. B. L v. 5, p. 395; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 228; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 188i); Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 285; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 50; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 312; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 371 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 503.— Flowers : July- 

 Sept. Vebn. Pollci. 



Deccan : Kartriz Ghiit near Poona, Bhiva !, Wooclrow. S. M. Country : Dharwar, 

 Tnlhol ; Belgauri) disfricts, Tnlhuf. Kanaka: Diggi, Jfoorfrw.— DisTuin. Tiulia (W. 

 Peninsula); Ceylon. 



The wood, which is lif;ht. while, and even-grained, is employed in I lie nianiilaeture 

 of toys, imitation fruits and other fancy articles; tlie surface takes paint readily. 

 The seeds yield an oil which is used as a lubricant for fine machinery. 



21. BLACHIA, Baill. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or tln^ upper sub- 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, entire, penninerved. Flowers monax-ious 

 or subdirt'cious, the males terminal, subumbellate or racemose on Hli- 

 form pedicels, the females solitary or fascicled on stout pedicels thickened 

 above. Male flowers: Sei)als -1-5, concave, membranous, imbricate. 

 Petals small, rounded, Lyaliiic. Disk-glands scale-like, altoniatiug 



