366 EUPHOKBIACKjE. \Ch(ttocar },!*. 



21. CH.ETOCARPUS, Thw. 



1. C. castaneaecarpUS, Thw. Enum. 275 ; Beddorae t. 284; Kurz ii. 

 409. Vern. Bulkokra, Beng. ; Haddoka, Cingh. 



A moderate-sized tree. Wood light* red, moderately hard, close- 

 grained. Pores small, numerous. Medullary rays very fine, very nu- 

 merous, traversed by narrow wavy concentric bands. 



Khasia Hills, Eastern Bengal, Burma, Andaman Islands and Ceylon. 

 Weight, 58 Ibs. per cubic foot. Wood used in Ceylon for building. 



Ibs. 

 No. 34. Ceylon Collection (C.pungens) . .58 



22. EXCLECARIA, Linn. 



The following list of species is taken from the ' Prodromus ' of DeCandolle : 



SECTION I. TBIADICA. 



E. sebifera, Mull. Arg . Cultivated, Northern 



India. 



E. baccata, Mull. Arg Sikkim, Eastern Bengal, 



Burma. 



SECTION II. FALCONEEIA. 



E. insignis, Mull. Arg North India, South India, 



Burma. 



SECTION III. SCLEROCROTON. 



E. cocMncJiinensis, Lour. South India. 



E. virgata, Miq Martaban. 



E. indica, Mull. Arg Sundarbans, Tenasserim. 



SECTION IV. EUEXCJICAEIA. 



.E. oppositifolia, Jack Malabar, Mysore, Tenas- 

 serim. 



E. Agallocha,WiM Bengal, South India, 



Burma, Andaman*. 



E. acerifolia, F. Didrichs .... Kuinaun, Nepal, Khasia 



Hills. 



(E. holophylla, Kurz) . . . . . . Martaban and Tenasserim. 



E. acerifolia^. Didrichs; Branch's 441. Vern. Putkid, Kumaun, is a large 

 milky shrub, whose root is used as a cathartic. 



Wood soft, spongy. Pores moderate-sized to large. Medullary rays 

 very fine, uniform, closely packed. Faint concentric lines. 



1. E. Sebifera, Miill. Arg. ; Brandis, 441 ; Gamble ii. 

 9ebifer*m, Kurz ii. 412. Sapinm seb'iferum y Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 Tlitj Chinese Tallow-tree. Vern. 9fom-c&ina, Beng. 



A moderate-sized tree. Bark gn'y, with shallow, vertical cracks. 

 Wood white, moderately hard. Pores small to large, often subdivided. 

 Medullary rays very fine, very numerous, the distance between the rays 



'linn tho t.nmsvorse diameter of the pores; the rays arc traversed by 

 nuiuurous line, wavy, concentric lines. 



