— Croron.] = #$.EUPHORBIACE#. maar 
moneecious, solitary or clustered on the rhachis of a terminal 
raceme ; bracts small. MaLk-flowers : Calyx 5 (rarely 4 or 6)-partite, 
segments imbricate or subvalvate. Petals 5, rarely 4 or 6, never 
larger and sometimes smaller than the calyx. Disk of 4 or 6 
glands, opposite the sepals. Stamens many, inserted on the hairy 
receptacle ; filaments free, inflexed in bud; anthers adnate, the 
cells parallel. Pistillode none. FrmM.-flowers: Sepals rarely 
accrescent in fruit. Petals smaller than the sepals. Disk as in 
the males. Ovary 3 (rarely 2 or 4)-celled ; ovules solitary in each 
cell ; style usually slender, 2-4-cleft. Capsule subequally 6-valved 
or of 3 separating 2-valved cocci. Seeds smooth, caruncle small, 
testa crustaceous, albumen copious, cotyledons broad.—Species 
upwards of 500, in all hot countries. 
C. oblongifolius, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 69; Fl. Ind. iii, 685; 
Brandis For. Fl. 440 ; Ind. Trees 577 ; F. B. I. v, 386 ; Watt EB. D.; 
Gamble Man. 614 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 943 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 599.— 
Vern. Arjunna (Oudh). 
A medium-sized deciduous tree ; young parts inflorescence and ovary 
clothed with minute orbicular silvery scales. Leaves crowded to- 
wards the ends of the branchlets, 5-10 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute, glabrous (when mature), crenate or serrate, penninerved ; 
base usually acute, without apparent glands above the petioles ; 
petioles 3-14 in. long. Flowers yellowish-green, solitary or clustered 
in the axils of minute bracts on long erect often fascicled racemes. 
MALE-flowers many, on the upper portion of the raceme. Calyx 
divided about ? towards the base ; segments 7, in. long or more, ovate, 
obtuse. Petals in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, woolly. 
Stamens 12, inflexed in bud ; filaments hairy below. Frm.-flowers at 
the base of the racemes; pedicels short, stout. Sepals acute, the 
margins ciliate. Petals », in. long, obovate, the margins densely 
woolly. Styles 3, nearly 4 in. long, each divided into 2 slender 
curled branches } in. long. Capsules 4 in. in diam., subglobose, 
slightly 3-lobed, clothed with minute orbicular scales. Seeds ellipsoid, 
rounded on the back. . 
Common and often gregarious in the Gonda district of N. Oudh and 
in the Gorakhpur district (Brandis). The leaves turn red before 
falling in March, and the new foliage appears soon afterwards. Dis- 
TRIB. : Bengal, Ch. Nagpur, Silhet, Central, W. and S. India and in 
the dry region of Ceylon; also in the mixed forests of Burma. The 
bark, leaves and fruit are used in native medicine. 
