Pliyllardhus.} cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 



shortly petioled membranous elliptic or oblong acute obtuse or apiculate, 

 flowers dioecious axillary pedicelled, pedicel clavate at the tip, sepals of both 

 sexes broadly oblong, berry small globose. Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 14. 

 P. flueggeiformis, 'Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 349. P. griseus, Wall. 

 Cat. 7918 Kinpart. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallicli. Sikkim, J. D. H., Kurz, 

 &c. BHOTAN, Griffith: KHASIA HILLS, on Shillong, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. 2). H. $ T. T., 

 Clarice. DISTRIB. China. 



A shrub with terete divaricate branches and very slender branchlets. Leaves 

 blackish when dry, very thin, subglaucous beneath, base acute ; nerves 8-10 pair, very 

 slender ; petiole -nr~To * n -> verv slender ; stipules narrow, membranous. Flowers 

 T V Y\, in. diam., solitary or fascicled ; pedicels - in. Disk of male 6 globose glands ; 

 ot jpjy/.. a vei T inconspicuous ring. Ovary ovoid; styles exserted, more or less connate 

 at i base. Fruit - in. diam., usually purple, styles persistent. This closely re- 

 sem : ys P. reticulatus in habit, but is easily distinguished by the long simple styles, 

 free ."pmens, and clavate tip of the fern, pedicel. The Chinese specimens are from 

 the fovince of Kiu Kiang (Maries) ; they have rather longer styles. 



Sect. IY. EMBLICA (see p. 286). 



7. 'P. Emblica., Linn. 8p.Pl. 982; a large tree, branchlets glabrous 

 or finely pubescent, leaves ^_i in. distichously close-set subsessile linear- 

 oblong obtuse, flowers densely fascicled along the branchlets males pedi- 

 celled, fern, few subsessile, anthers free, stigmas very large twice 2-fid, fruit 

 depressed-globose % in. fleshy. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 352 ; Roxb. 

 FL Ind. iii. 671 ; Wall. Cat. 7903 ; Brand-. For. Fl. 454, t. 52 ; Grab. Cat. 

 Bomb. PL 180 ; G-amble Man. Ind. Timb. 351 ; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. 

 t. 258 ; Bentli. FL Hongk. 312 ; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 627, t. 24, 

 f. 20-24; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 548. ? P. taxifolius, Don Prodr. 63. P. glo- 

 meratus, Herb. Boxb. Emblica officinalis, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 122, t. 108; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1896 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 235 ; A. Juss. Tent. Fuphorb. 

 108, t. 5, f. 15. Cicca Emblica, Kurz For. FL ii. 352. Dichelasrtina 

 nodicaulis, Hance in Walp. Ann. iii. 367. Rlieede Sort. Mai. i. t. 38. 



Throughout TROPICAL INDIA, wild or planted, from the base of the Himalaya, 

 from Jummoo eastwards, and southwards to CEYLON and MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malay 

 Islands, China. 



A deciduous tree ; bark flaking conchoidally ; branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves 

 equal and symmetrically set, like the leaflets of a pinnate leaf, glabrous or puberulous 

 beneath ; stipules scarious, lacerate. Floivers yellow, racemed on the branches. 

 Sepals 56, obovate-oblong. Staminal column short. Disk of male obsolete, of fern, 

 a lacerate cup. Ovary globose ; styles connate at the base ; arms recurved, very large, 

 dilated and twice branched. Fruit obscurely 6-lobed. 



8. P. albizzioides, Hook. f. ; a tree, branchlets puberulous, leaves 

 1 by - in. distichously close-set subsessile oblong or elliptic rarely orbicular 

 glabrous glaucous beneath, flowers minute subracemose, males pedicelled, 

 fern, subsessile, styles 2-cleft lobes broad entire, fruit globose 1 in. diam. 

 fleshy. P. pubescens, Wall. mss. Cicca albizzioides, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 352. 



BURMA ; at Prome, Wallich. PEGF ; up to 2000 ft., Kurz, Srandis. 

 Branches very slender, pubescent. Leaves 1 by | in. or smaller, rounded at both 

 ends ; nerves 7-10 pair, very slender. Cocci bony, with a long pungent apex. 



9. P. pomiferus, HooJc.f. ; a shrub or tree, branchlets pubescent, leaves 

 |-f in.long distichously close-set subsessile narrowly linear coriaceous acute or 

 obtuse glabrous margins subreflexed, flowers subracemose, rachis pubescent, 



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