616 CXY. EUPHOBBIACE^. 



3-neryed at the base and with 4-7 pairs of nerves above the basal ones ; 

 petioles 1-2 in. long, eylindrie, ftdvous-pubescent, with 2 small sessile 

 glands one on each side of the summit. Flowers dioecious, small ; the 

 males clustered, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, in erect terminal 

 spikes which are usually several together and often longer than the 

 leaves; the females sessile or nearly so, in short spikes. Male flowees: 

 Sepals 4 (rarely 5), g in. long, lanceolate, acute. Stamens nimierous. 

 Bracts yL in. long, broadly ovate, acute. Buds globosely ovoid. 

 Female flowees : Calyx divided nearly to the base ; sepals 3 or 4, 

 thicker than in the male, ovate-lanceolate. Ovary \iith red glands, 

 3-celled; styles 3, simple, papillose. Capsules g-l in. in diam., 3-lobed, 

 loculicidally 3-valved, covered with a bright-red powder consisting of 

 minute stellate hairs and fine grains of a red resinous substance soluble 

 in alcohol and ether. Seeds J. in. in diam., subglobose, black. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 5, p. 442 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 280 ; Trim! Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 68 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 316; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1899) p. 372 ; Prain, Beng. PL p. 949 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, 

 p. 114. RottUm imctoria, Eoxb. Cor. PL v. 2 (1798) p. 36, t. 167 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 184 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 230.— Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Yebn. 

 SJiendri ; Kamala ; liuhin ; Kcqnlo. 



KoNKAN : N.'&S. Ivoukan, Law ! ; hills throughout the Konkans, Graham ; Konkaii 

 jungles, Balzcll cj- Gibson; Cainpoli, Bhival; Anibeghat, Cookel Deccan ; Maha- 

 bleshwar, Cookel, Graham; Nasik, Bhival Gujarat: Balsar, Kaniikarl Sind : 

 /S'/w'/^i- !— DisTRin. Thi'oughout Tropical India; Ceylon, Malay Islands, Australia, 

 China. 



The red powder whicli covers the seeds furnishes a valuable dye which is employed 

 in dyeing silk a bright flame-colour. The powder is also used in medicine and is 

 cousidered to be efficacious iu the expulsion of Tajnia or Tape-worm. (See Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. IVud. 1. c.) 



3. Mallotus stenanthus, 3h(elL Ar<j. in Lhinmi, v. 34 (1865) 

 p. 191. A nearly glabrous shrub with yellow resinous glands on the 

 young branchlets, inflorescence, and the underside of the leaves; branches 

 red-brown ; branchlets compressed. Leaves opposite, 3-6 by 1-1 1 in., 

 lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, entire or sinuate-toothed, glabrous, 

 shining, dotted on tlie luiderside with numerous yellow resinous glands, 

 penninerved, base narrowly rounded ; nerves 5-7 pairs, prominent 

 l)(;iieath, with reticulate venation between; petioles |-| in. long. 

 Flowers in slender axillary and tei-minal racemes ^-2 in. long. JMale 

 FLOWERS sessile or shortly i)edicellate ; buds ovoid. Calyx divided to 

 the base. Sepals usually 4, lanceolate, -^^ in. long, clothed with yellow 

 resinous glands. Bracts ovat-e, acute. Stamens about 20 ; filaments 

 stout, 7V~T2 ^'^* ^"'^S- Ej^'MALB flowees sessile or nearly so ; buds 

 oblong. Capsules -^ in. in diam., tridymous, clothed with yellow 

 resinous glands, echinatc with short stout sparsely scattered conical 

 spines. Seeds globose, smooth, ]^—\ in. in diam. There is a great 

 dearth of female flowers in Jlerb. Kew. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 437 : Bedd. 

 For. Man. in V'lor. Sylvat. p. ccix ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 316 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 372. — Flowers: Sept.- 

 Nov. 



Dalzdl without localily in Iferb. Kow ! Kun-kan : S/ocks], Law] Kanaka: 

 Talavcri, /■VA/z/r. 12r>()!; V.01a])ur, Ta/I,,,/, lOJIO !— DisTHin. Tndia (W. reninsuja), 

 ai)parcntly endemic. 



