5. Britelia.] 22. EUPKOKBIACEM. [4. Glochidiok. 



sub-acuminate, not shining, softly pubescent beneath or quite glabrous 

 with age, .base acute or obtuse. Seen. 6-12 prs. Petiole T V£" rarely £" 

 pubescent. M. fl. shortly pedicelled. Pet. broader than long, crenate. 

 Fern, calyx T ' () — §* diam. in fr. Sep. triangular. Pet. sub-orbicular entire. 

 If the drupes are not eaten, the pericarp dries and splits into G valves, 

 each of the pyrenea split into 2 valves. Seed black somowhat cordate. 



3. Clristantlms, Hoof, k. 



1- C. CollillUS, Benth. Syn. Lebidieropsis orbicularis, 

 Mtiell. Parasu, M.; Pasu, Ho.; Kargali, S.; Kargeli, Khario ; 

 Kirla, R. 



A small tree with dark-coloured bark, distichous orbicular 

 obovate or elliptic leaves 1-4" by J-3" glaucous beneath. Small 

 green flowers^- J'' diam. appearing with the new leaves, the 

 males clustered, the F. often solitary sessile. Capsules chest- 

 nut coloured woody when ripe f diam., ultimately breaking 

 up into three 2-valved cocci. 



Very common on dry hills in Singbhum, and less common in other 

 districts. A large form occurs also along nalas. S. P. only south of the- 

 Brahmini E. Gamble. 



Fl. April-May, occasionally flowers may also be found in Sept. Fr. 

 ripBns March- April of the uext year, and burst with slight reports on hot 

 evenings. Leafless March-April. 



Twigs slender. L. entire with rounded or retuse tip and rounded 

 base, nerves fine reticulate glabrous, or faintly pubescent beneath when 

 young. Petiole l-\''. Stipules deciduous, hairy. Clusters 2-6-fid. Buds 

 conical 5-angled. FLs. softly pubescent, petals minute fleshy, sometimes 

 0. Calyx-lobes often i'' in F. and often twisted. Capsule somewhat 

 3-gonous. 



All parts of the tree are very astringent, and the roots and fruit are 

 poisonous. Thay are also used to poison fish. Campbell says that the 

 bark is applied in cutaneous diseases. The tree coppices freely, and as it 

 i3 not eaten by goats, it sometimes forms the only vegetation on rocky hill 

 sides. The wood ia durable. 



4. Glocliidion, Forst. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs with distichous shortly petioled 

 entire leaves and small greenish or yellow flowers in axillary 

 monoecious or dioecious clusters, the males frequently on much 

 more slender pedicels than the females. Sepals 6, spreading 

 in 2 series, rarely 5, or 7-12 ; in the young female u. calyx 



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