PUTRANJIVA.] EUPHORBIACE. 99 
Royle lll. 327.—A small glabrous deciduous tree with pinnately 
distichous leaves and small reddish flowers in dense clusters. The 
acid fruit, about as large as a big gooseberry, is much used in tarts 
or as a pickle. The tree is a native of the Malay Islands and in Mada- 
gascar. It is met with in gardens within the area of this flora and 
in other parts of India. 
9. PUTRANJIVA, Wall.; Fl. Brit. v, 336. 
Trees. Leaves alternate, evergreen, entire or serrulate, penni- 
nerved and reticulate. Flowers moneecious or dicecious, axillary 
pedicelled ; the males clustered, the females subsolitary. Petals 
and disk none. MauxE-flowers : Calyx unequally 3-6-lobed, imbricate. 
Stamens 2-4, in the centre of the flower, tilaments free or 
partially connate ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode none. 
Fem.-flowers: Calyx as in male. Ovary ovoid, 2-3-celled ; styles 
short, spreading, dilated into broad fleshy arms, ovules 2 in each 
cell. Fruit an ovoid or globose drupe; endocarp hard, 1-celled. 
Seed solitary, ovoid, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy, cotyledons 
broad and flat.—Species 2, India and Ceylon. 
P. Roxburghii. Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61; Royle Ill. 347, t. 83 
bis ; Brandis For. Fl. 451, t. 53; Ind. Trees 566; F. B. I. »v, 
336 ; Watt E. D.; Collett Fl. Siml. 452 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 
349 ; Gamble Man. 604 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 936 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 
ti, 590. Nageia Putranjiva, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 766.—Vern. Jiaputa, 
putjia (Hind.), patji (Oudh), juti (Kumaon bhabar), putranjiva 
(Sansc.). 
A moderate-sized evergreen tree, almost glabrous except the young 
shoots ; bark-grey, whitish when young. Branches drooping. Leaves 
alternate, coriaccous, dark-green, shining, 23-4 in. long, obliquely 
elliptic-oblong or ovate, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate, entire 
or distantly serrulate; main lateral nerves many, with reticulate 
venation between ; petioles } in. long, pubescent; stipules small, 
triangular, acute, deciduous. Flowers small, yellow, diccious. 
MALEs very shortly pedicelled, arranged in dense axillary often spike- 
like clusters. Sepals 3-5, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Stamens usually 
3, filaments more or less connate at the base, anthers globose. FEm.- 
flowers 2-3; pedicels }-} in. long, pubescent. Sepals 5-6, broadly 
elliptic, obtuse, concave, ciliolate. Ovary 3-celled, tomentose ; 
