20. Macarangjl] 22. EUPHORBIACE&. [21. Baliospesmuk. 



sometimes only 2 cells and the anther may exactly resemble 

 those of Mallotna except in the smaller connective. 



Oyary only 1-2-celled in the 0. N. species. 

 1. M. indica, Wight. Boura, Beng. 



A soft- wooded tree with green or glaucous branches 

 exuding a large quantity of very gummy sap when cut, long— 

 petioled large peltate leaves and fls. in axillary panicles 

 2-4£" long with glandular bracts. 



Bavines in the Saranda forest, elev. 2,000 ft., very rare. Fl. Oct. Fr. 

 April. Evergreen. 



L. sometimes attain 12" by 10* orbicular ovate glaucons and hairy 

 beneath and covered with small glandi. Sec. n. 4-8 prs. above the 

 numerous basal nerves. Stipules lanceolate or ovate acuminate f". 

 Frequently a large gland on 1 or 2 of the principal nerves. In the 

 inflorescence the bracts may be reduced to these glands or b9 more or 

 less foliacouus. Rachis of M. panicles zig-zag. Fls. minute, St. 3-8. F. fl. 

 with a glandular and pubescent ovary. Capsule usually globose and 

 1-oelled waxy, rarely didymous and 2-oelled. 



[This tree was named i\l. Eoxburghii. Wight, in the Calcutta Herb. 

 The latter tree however differs in its densely rusty tomentose inflorescence 

 and bracts, and in the large lateral peltate stigma. The stigma of M. 

 indica is also basal or lateral, but is subulate. The C. N. tree differs from 

 typical M. indica in its greater hairiness.] 



81. Baliospermum, Bl. 

 1. B. axillare, Bl. 



A shrub with numerous erect herbaceous shoots from 

 the root, with variously lobed, sinuate or serrate ell., oblong 

 or (upper) lanceolate leaves attaining 6-10", and greenish 

 fls. in fascicles either axillary, or from the axils of bracts on 

 proliferous shoots or in contracted leafless panicles. Capsule 

 J* 3-lobed pubescent. Seeds with a brown caruncle. 



Valleys, esp. in shady places. Siogbhum; Palamau (Betlah) ; Santal 

 P. 



Fl. Dec-March and more or less all the year round. Sub-deoiduous in 

 March. 



