- Puytanraus.] 4 EUPHORBIACES. rs 
Fruit a capsule of 3 crustaceous 2-valved 
cocci; disk present in the male and 
fem. flowers; styles once 2-fid., free ; 
stipules peltate.—Herbs :— 
Leaves scattered, cuneate-obovate ; 
capsule smooth : ‘ ; . 3. P. maderaspaten- 
sis, 
Leaves close-set, distichously imbricat- 
ing, oblong or linear-oblong ; capsule 
echinate : ‘ f : , 
Anthers didymous, reniform, the cells sub- 
globose, slits very short ; fruit a capsule ; 
styles once 2-fid., free or connate :-— 
Seeds finely tubercled ; stipules peltate.— : 
A perennial herb or undershrub . oO. P. simplex. 
Seeds with parallel ribs on the back; 
stipules simple, not peltate.——An annual 
weed ; 4 . ‘ . . 6. P. Nirurt. 
i 1.P. reticulatus Poir. Encycl. Méth. v, 298; Brandis For. 
Fl. 453 ; Ind. Trees 570; F. B. I. v, 288; Watt E. D.; Comm. 
Prod. Ind. 887 ; Gamble Man. 598 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 935 ; Cooke 
Fl. Bomb. ti, 585. P. multiflorus, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 664 
(not of Roxb. Ic.).—Vern. Panjuli, kabonan (Merwara). 
4. P. urinaria. 
A large often scandent shrub, glabrous or pubescent ; branchlets slender, 
drooping, smooth or lenticellate ; bark thin, greyish-brown. Leaves 
variable, thin, glabrous or nearly so, pale beneath, 1-2 in. long, oblong 
elliptic or rotundate, obtuse or acute at the apex ; base rounded. acute 
or subcordate ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, slender ; petioles up to 
} in. long ; stipules shorter than the petioles, ovate, acute, sometimes 
bristle-pointed. Flowers axillary, males in fascicles, the females 
solitary, pedicels slender. Calyx ;5 in. long, glabrous ; segments 
oblong, obtuse, alternating with the glands of the disk. Matez- 
flowers. Stamens 5, the three inner connate, the two outer free 
and shorter. Frm.-flowers. Ovary 5-10-celled; ovules 2 in each 
cell, superposed ; styles 3, minute, 2-lobed. Fruit a globose berry, 
about 4 in. diam., smooth and shining, dark-purple when ripe. 
Seeds usually 10, trigonous, crustaceous, punctulate. 
Meerut (T. Thomson), Rohilkhand (Edgeworth), N. Oudh and Gorakh- 
pur (Duthie) ; often found climbing amongst bushes and in hedges. 
