_ Anripesaa.] EUPHORBIACES. 101 
2,500 ft. and eastwards to the Darjeeling Terai, Assam, Khasia Hills, 
and from Chota Na. to Eastern Bengal and the Circars, The 
wood is hard and tough and with an even grain, 
11, ANTIDESMA, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 354. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, stipules narrow, 
Flowers dicecious, apetalous, small or minute, in slender axillary 
or in terminal simple or branched spikes or racemes. MALE-flowers : 
Calyx 3-5, rarely 6-8-lobed or partite. Disk entire or lobed. 
Stamens 2-5, rarely more, inserted on or around the disk, often 
irregularly ; filaments inflexed in bud, anthers lunate or didymous ; 
cells globose, approximate or distant, connective thickened. Pistil- 
lode minute or obsolete. Ferm.-flowers: Calyx as in male. Disk 
usually annular or cushion-like. Ovary usually 1-celled ; stigmas 
2-4, usually short, 2-fid. or 2-partite ; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit 
a small more or less compressed drupe, crowned by the sublateral 
or terminal stigmas. Seed small, albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
broad, flat.—Species about 70, in the tropical regions of the Old 
World. 
Leaves very obtuse; flowers sessile; stamens 
4-7 ; ovary hairy ; ; ‘ ; - 1. A. Ghesembilla. 
Leaves acute or acuminate; flowers pedicelled ; 
stamens usually 2 ; ovary glabrous . . 2. A. diandrum, 
1. A. Ghesembilla, Garin. Fruct. i, 189, t. 39; Brandis For. 
Fl. 446 ; Ind. Trees 564; F. B. I. v, 357; Watt E. D.; Gamble 
Man. 610; Prain Beng. Pl. 938 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 592. A. 
paniculatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. wii, 770. A. pubescens, Rozb. 1. c. 
A small deciduous tree with greyish bark; branchlets pubescent or 
fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 2-4 in. long, oval obovate or orbi- 
cular-oblong, rounded or emarginate at the apex, glabrous or 
nearly so on the upper surface, pubescent or tomentose beneath ; 
base rounded or subcordate ; main lateral nerves 5-6 pairs ; petioles 
}-4 in. long ; stipules about as long as the petioles, lanceolate, acute, 
downy. Flowers greenish-yellow; sessile, arranged in slender panicled 
spikes. MALE-flowers : Calyx 5-7-partite, densely fulvous-hairy. 
Stamens 4-7; anthers crescent-shaped. Disk 5-part., pubescent. 
fEM.-flowers: Calyx as in the male. Disk annular. Ovary densely 
