6. Phtlianthus] 22. EUPKORBIACEJE. 



1. P. Elllblica, £• Miral, K. ; Miral, 8. ; Aura, Aonla, 

 H.', Artila, Beng. The Emblic Myrabolan. 



A small or m. s. tree with distichous close-set small 

 linear-oblong leaves \ — f" long. Fls. minute yellowish densely 

 lascicled in the axils of the new leaves. Fruit globose suc- 

 culent |" diam. with a 6 -ridged put amen. 



Common in the valley forests. 



"^1. May. Fr: Oct.- April. Dec. March-Apru. 



A well-known tree, the branchlets of which closely resemble pinnate 

 leave's and are often deciduous. Sep. 6. Disc of male of 6 minute glands or 

 0, of fern, cupular. St. 3 monadelphoas. 



The putamen is very tardily dehiscent. 



Fruits astringent, but sialagogr.e. and hence often taken by natives 

 when thirsty. Largely used in Hindu medicine, the properties are said to 

 resemble those of the chebulic myrabolan. It is eaten as a cure for cough 

 in Ch. Nag., and the juice of the fresh fruit is used for inflammation of 

 the o-^es. Campbell says that boiled till it becomes of an oily con-' 

 sistency, it is used for Khasra, a skin disease. 



The fruits boiled with sugr j make an excellent preserve. 



2. P. Lawii, Orah. Tirsibirsi, M. (possibly fictitious) j 

 Jhawar Khandera, S. 



A shrub with numerous erect rigid stems 3-4| ft. high, 

 close spreading slender branchlets with distichoas crowded 

 sub-sessile small leaves J" by T V", and solitary or few minute 

 pinkish flowers. 



Usually gregarious along the banks of rocky rivers with ajconstant 

 water supply. Throughout the area, but very local. 



Fl. J any. -March. Fr. Jany. 



Branches terete glabrous. L. linear-oblong obtuse glaucous, base sub- 

 cordate, sec. n. 3-4 prs. faint. Stipules linear subulate 3-4 times as long as 

 the minute petiole. Pedicels. Va'i"* Pls - tV diam. Disc of m. of glands, 

 of fern, a crenulate ring. Filaments connate to above the middle. Styles 

 lamellate 2-partite. Frt. |-£" diam. 3-lobed. 



3. P. urinaria, L. is a slender sometimes decumbent plant with 

 spreading or ascending branches like pinnate leaves, leaves close often 

 imbricate, numerous minute subsessile flowers and capsules which are 

 echinate or pustulate. FL, Fr. July-Jany. 



4. P. Niruri, L. somewhat similar, is an erect herb or undershrnb 

 l-2i ft., branches 4-6" long and close glabrous linear, obloner or elliptic 



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