co EUPHORBIACEX. — [Puyupanruvs. 
DistRiB. : Throughout tropical India from Sind, Bengal and Sikkim 
to S. India and Ceylon ; also in Burma, the Andaman ‘Islands, Malay 
Archipelago, China and Trop. Africa. The leaves bark and juice are 
used medicinally. Manson states. that the charcoal prepared from 
this species is much used in Burma for lighting hookas. 
2, P. Emblica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 982; Roxb. Fl. Ind, wi, 671; 
Brandis For. Fl. 454, t. 52 ; Ind. Trees 570; F.B.I. v, 289 ; Watt 
E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 886 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 346 ; Gamble 
Man. 599 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 450 ; Frain Beng. Pl. 935 ; Cooke Fl. 
Bomb. ii, 585. Emblica officinalis, Gertn.; Royle Ill. 327.—Vern. 
Ambla, dmla, aonhla, aola. (Emblic myrobalan.) 
A moderate-sized deciduous tree with usually a crooked trunk; bark 
light-grey, or greenish, peeling off in small irregular patches, red 
inside. Branches spreading, branchlets glabrous or finely pubescent, 
often deciduous. Leaves small, subsessile, distichously arranged 
along the branchlets and thus simulating the leaflets of a pinnate 
leaf, 2-4 in. long, narrowly linear, obtuse, pale-green, glabrous or 
puberulous beneath ; stipules minute, ovate, finely acute. Flowers 
greenish-yellow, arranged in axillary fascicles on the leaf-bearing 
branchlets or on the naked portion below the leaves ; bracts fimbriate, 
Matz-flowers many, shortly pedicelled. Sepals 6, oblong, obtuse, 
=, in. long. Disk none. Anthers 3, erect, on a short column, slits 
vertical. Frm.-flowers few, subsessile. Sepals as in male. Disk 
cupular, lacerate. Ovary 3-celled ; styles connate at the base, twice 
2-fid. and with acute lobes. Fruit fleshy, globose, pale-yellow and 
often tinged with pink when ripe, about } in. in diam., obscurely 
6-lobed, breaking up when dry into three 2-seeded crustaceous cocci. 
Seeds 6, trigonous. 
Abundant in forest tracts within the area of this flora, and often planted 
near villages and as a roadside tree. Flowers March to May, and 
the fruit ripens during the cold season. DisTrrs.: Throughout 
tropical and subtropical India, chiefly in the dry deciduous forests, 
ascending to 4,500 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in Ceylon, Burma, the 
Malay Islands and China. The acid fruit is eaten as a pickle, and 
the bark leaves and fruit are used in dyeing and tanning. The hard 
red wood is valued for poles and, being durable under water, it is 
much used for well-work. Excellent charcoal is prepared from it. 
It is said that chips of the wood thrown into muddy water will clear 
it effectually. For further particulars regarding the medicinal and 
other useful properties of this tree see Watt’s Dictionary 
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