99 : EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Fuveena, 
P. retusus, Roxb, l.c. 657 ; Royle Ill. 327 (Fluggea).—Vern. Dalme 
(Hind.), rithoul (Dehra Dun). 
A large unarmed glabrous shrub or small tree ; bark smooth, thin, rusty 
or reddish-brown, marked with small lenticular specks; branchlets 
slender, angular, compressed. Leaves very variable, shortly petioled, 
thin, glabrous, 1-3 in. long, elliptic or obovate, rounded at the apex, 
rarely retuse or subacute, base usually acute; main lateral nerves 
5-7 pairs, very slender; under-surface glaucous and with loose reti- 
culate venation; petioles slender, 4-} in. Flowers very small, 
arranged in axillary clusters from a crowd of minute bracts; the males 
very many ; the females 1-5, rarely more. Matz-flowers on filiform 
pedicels. Sepals spreading, J; in. long, obovate-oblong, obtuse. 
concave. Stamens usually 5, exserted ; filaments opposite the sepals, 
slender. Pistillode large, 3-fid. Fem.-flowers. Pedicels shorter 
than those of males. Sepals as in males. Ovary glabrous, styles 
deeply bifid. Berry globose, of two sizes, mostly minute and with 
a dry pericarp, a few 4 in. in diam. and white with a fleshy pericarp. 
Seeds 3-6, minutely punctate. 
-Dehra Dun, in scrub forest (Kanjilal), and eastwards along the Sub- 
-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur ; also in 
Bundelkhand and Merwara. Flowers in April and May. Disrrip. : 
Hilly parts of the Punjab westwards to the Suliman range ; Himalaya 
from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 5,000 ft., also in Bengal and in Central 
W. and S. India, extending to Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, China, 
Australia and Trop. Africa. The hard close-grained reddish wood 
is used for agricultural implements, and the bark is said to be used 
for intoxicating fish. 
2. F. Leucopyrus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv, 757; F. B. I. v, 328; 
Gamble Man. 603 ; Brandis Ind, Trees 569; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 
981. Securinega Leucopyrus, Muell. Arg.; Brand. For. Fl. 456, t. 54 
(in part). Phyllanthus Leucopyrus, Koen. Mss.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 
658.—Vern. Hartho, ainta (Brandis), salipan or halepan (Merwara). 
A large glabrous bush with rigid straggling branches ; branchlets slender, 
angular, ending in sharp spines. Leaves 3-1 in. long, rarely longer, 
obovate obcordate or rotundate, glaucous and with indistinct reti- 
culate venation beneath. Flowers as in F. microcarpa. Berry 3- 
celled, globose, about in. in diam., smooth, white when ripe ; styles 
3, bifid. Seeds 2 in each cell. 
In the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Kheri (N. Oudh) and Gorakhpur. 
Flowers May and June. Dyistrip.: Outer ranges of the Kumaon 
