Order 106. Euphorbiacea. 291 



ceedingly thorny, with obovate leaves in whorls, and very pretty 

 scarlet involucres in clusters, is very common in Indian gardens 

 and English conservatories; a native of S. America. 



2. BRIEDELIA. 



1. B. retusa (IB. montan'a, D.). A handsome tree with 

 spreading branches, leaves lanceolate ovate or obovate, pale 

 beneath, flowers sessile axillary, fruit like a currant or larger, 

 purple-black with persistent calyx. Asanna, phatarphod, pale 

 hasan. 



Common on the Ghauts : also in hilly parts of the Konkan. It is 

 found with or without thorns, and H. has 4 varieties, in one of which 

 the flowers are in spikes sometimes a foot long. 



2. B. stipularis (B. scandens, D.). A scraggy diffuse shrub, 

 leaves oblong or obovate, blunt, hard, downy with prominent 

 nerves below, flowers greenish, axillary crowded, fruit oval 

 seated in the calyx, turning from red to black. Chikan. 



Konkan : common about Rajapore. Hotter parts of India (H.). 

 If. has alternatively " flowers in long spikes often subtended by long 

 stipular bracts." 



* B. Hamiltoniana, straggling, nearly smooth, leaves small, oblong 

 or obovate, flowers in minute axillary or spicate clusters, fruit 

 roundish, seated on the calyx. Not in D. or G. Konkan and Ghauts, 

 Law, Stock, &c. (fl.). 



3. PHYLLANTHUS. 



H. has 56 species, but only about 8 in W. India. All here given, 

 except the first, have stamens 3, more or less columnar. 



1. P. reticulatus (Anisonema multiflora^ P.). A climbing 

 shrub, with very small oval obtuse leaves, quite smooth, petioles 

 red, flowers very small axillary reddish aggregated, stamens 5, 

 berry when ripe like a small black currant. Pdivan. 



Sattara. Of great size in Sind, climbing to the tops of the highest 

 trees (D.). Watercourses and other moist places in the Konkan ((?.). 

 Throughout tropical India (JZ.). He mentions a pubescent state of 

 the plant. 



2. P. emllica (EmUica officinalis, D.). A tree, leaves linear 

 oblong obtuse, flowers small, yellowish, tinged with red in 

 dense clusters on the branchlets, which look like spikes of 

 flowers with leaves among them ; perianth 6 or 7 divided, fruit 

 waxy, roundish, only slightly lobed, size of a large gooseberry. 

 Awl a, dmalak. 



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