PutranjivaJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 



Dalz. Sf Gils. Bomb. Fl. 236 ; Endl. Ic. G-en. t. 19. P. sphserocarpa & 

 amblyocarpa, Muell. Arg. I. c. 443, 444. ISTageia Putranjiva, Roxb. FLInd. 

 iii. 7 '66. Wall. Cat. 7889.keede Hort. Mal.vii. t, 59. 



Throughout TEOPICAL INDIA, wild and cultivated, from the lower Himalaya in 

 Kutnaon, eastwards and southwards to Pegu and CEYLON. 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree, shoots pubescent. Leaves 2-3 in., obtuse, acute 

 or acuminate. Flowers small, yellow ; males in dense axillary clusters, shortly 

 pedicelled ; fern, solitary or in pairs, sepals minute, pedicels ^-lin. pubescent. Fila- 

 ments more or less connate Ovary tomentose, stigmas 3, cuneately semi-lunar. 

 Fruit from globose to ovoid, size of a cherry or smaller, white-tomentbse ; putamen 

 hard, wrinkled. 



2. P. zeylanica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 444 ; quite gla- 

 brous, leaves lanceolate acuminate gland-dotted beneath, sepals of male 2 of 

 fern. 4, stamens 2. Beddome Forester's Man. 197, and Fl. Sylvat. t. 275 (the 

 lower left-hand compartment). Palenga zeylanica, Thwaites in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. viii. (1856; 271, t. 7 C, emdJEnum. 287 ; Baill. Etudes Gen.Euphorb.Q4&. 



CEYLON; at Ambng-amowa, alt. 2000 ft., Thwaites. 



A glabrous tree, 20-40 ft. ; branches terete. Leaves 3-5 by 1-lf in., oblique, 

 shining; petiole ^ in., rugulose ; stipules minute. Flowers white, -^ in. long; 

 pedicels about as long. Fruit f in. long, tomentose. 



16. HEIVIICYCIiIA, Wight $ Am. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen, alternate, petioled, quite entire, base 

 usually very unequal. Flowers small, pedicelled, dioecious, apetalous ; males 

 clustered at the axils or nodes ; females subsolitary. MALE FL. Sepals 4-5, 

 imbricate, inner usually larger and subpetaloid. Stamens 4-23, inserted 

 round an orbicular disk, filaments free ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pis- 

 tillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx of the male. Disk flat, annular. Ovary obliquely 

 ovoid, 1- (rarely 2-) celled ; stigmas 1, rarely 2, sessile, or on a short style, 

 broadly reniform, flabelliform, orbicular ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid, 

 oblong, pyriform or globose, endocarp hard. Seeds oblong, grooved on one 

 face, arilled ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 9, Indian, 

 Malayan and Australian. 



* Fruit globose, terete ; endocarp bony. 



1. H. sepiaria, Wight <$f Arn. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xiv. 297; 

 nearly glabrous, leaves very coriaceous broadly elliptic or oblong tip rounded 

 obtuse or retuse entire or repand-toothed, base rounded or cordate, stamens 

 8-10, fruit small pisiform. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 487 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1872 ; Dalz. Sc Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 229; Beddome Forester's Man. 198 ; 

 Thwaites in Hook. Journ. Bot. (1855) 271, and Enum. 287 ; Baill. Etudes 

 Gen. Euphorb. t. 27, f. 7, 8. Periplexis, Watt. Cat. 8022. P. rigida, Wall, 

 mss. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southwards, ascending to 3000 ft 

 CEYLON ; from the sea coast to 1500 ft. 



A rigid, much-branched shrub, 6-9 ft. ; shoots puberulous. Leaves lJ-3^- in., 

 hard and almost shining when old, pale brown when dry, nerves very faint ; 

 petiole ^-| in. Flotvers villous ; male in. diam., in axillary braeteolate clusters, or 

 lengthening into short racemes, pedicels i-| in., filiform ; fern, subsessile, with the 

 pubescent pedicels elongating in fruit. Sepals 4, broad. Stamens 6-8, inserted 

 round a cupular disk with a waved margin ; filaments slender, exserted. Ovary 

 1-2-celled ; stigma peltate, orbicular, or semicircular. Fruit % in. diam., one-seeded, 



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