9. Saubopus. ] 22. EUPROEBIACE^. [ 10. Putbanjiva, 



9. Sauropus, Bhime. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs with distichous entire leaves 

 and minute axillary solitary or clustered monoecious flowers, 

 M. calyx disciform or turbinate with a very small mouth 6- 

 lobed and with thickenings which meet round the 3-gonous 

 staminal column. Anths. sessile on the angles of the 

 column. F. calyx 6-cleft accrescent in fruit. Ovary 3-celled 

 with rounded or concave top and 3 sessile spreading styles 

 with 3 curved arms. Fruit as in Breynia but surrounded by 

 the calyx. 



1. S, quadrangularis, Muell. 



A dwarf glabrous shrub with angled branchlets and very 

 shortly petioled ell. or broadly ovate or obovate obtuse or 

 subacute leaves about J'' by J". Fls. shortlv pedicelled, M. 

 £r" diaxn., F. 1\ 



Manbhum, Cal. Herb. ; Karakpur Hills (near Monghyr). 



L. with 4-5 prs. aec. n., margin minutely hispid. Petiole tVtV 

 Sep. of M. linguiform obtuse, of P. rounded. Fr. %" diam. depressed 

 globose, narrower than the enlarged calyx. 



2. S. pubescens, Book, f. 



An undershrub with compressed 2-ridged branches, and 

 leaves on both surfaces pubescent or finely tomentose, 

 glabrescent above. L. £-lJ* by §-f broadly ovate o> 

 elliptic with 3 prs. sec. nerves. Fls. iV'tV solitary red 

 Pedicels %" very slender. 



Along dry nalas in the Singbhum forests. FL May -July Deciduous 

 in February. 



Stems S-i" hign with pubescent sometimes sub-alate branchlets. L. 

 acnte or sub-obtuse with rounded base, pubescent beneath and margins 

 recurved. Petiole T y Stipules and bracts minute., very persistent, 



Fls. not noted in the C. N. plant, 



10, Putranjiva, Wall. 



1. P. Roxburgllii, Wall Pitonj, S. i Putranjiva, jia- 

 puta, Beng, 



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