86 EUPHOBBIACE&. f BRID.ELIA. 



FL Bomb, ii, 572. B. spinosa, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 735. 

 Vern. Kdj, kdja (Hind.), lamkana (Ajmir), gaya (Dehra Dun). 



A small or moderate -sized erect deciduous tree, more or less spinescent 

 when young ; bark grey. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic -oblong, ovate 

 or obovate, acute, obtuse or rounded at the apex, the base usually 

 rounded, bright-green and glabrous on the upper surface and turn- 

 ing pinkish-purple before falling, often finely tomentose beneath ; 

 main lateral nerves 15-25 pairs, straight, prominent, finely reticulate 

 between ; petioles J- J in. long, stipules ovate-lanceolate, unequal 

 at the base, deciduous. Flowers dioecious, greenish-yellow, sessile 

 or shortly pedicelled, arranged in dense axillary clusters or in long 

 axillary or terminal panicled spikes exceeding the leaves ; bracts 

 small, obtuse, villoup. Calyx J in. in diam.; lobes fleshy, spreading, 

 triangular-ovate, acute, glabrous and often tinged with red ; tube 

 pubescent. Petals of males obovate, pectinate ; of the fern, sub- 

 spathulate. DM of male flower thick and pulpy ; of the fern, trun- 

 cate, enclosing the ovary. Drupe fleshy, subglobose, J in. in diam., 

 seated on the persistent hardly enlarged calyx, flesh-coloured or 

 purplish-black when quite ripe. 



Siwalik range (T. Thomson) ; forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, 

 often associated with sal ; plentiful in the Sub^Himalayan tracts 

 of Rohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur ; also in Bundelkhand and 

 Rajputana. Flowers May- July, and the fruit ripens in the cold 

 season. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges from Kashmir to Mishmi 

 up to 3,500 ft., and southwards to S. India and Ceylon, extending 

 to Burma and Malacca. The wood is much valued for various 

 purposes, and it lasts well under water ; the bark is used for tanning, 

 the sweetish fruit is eaten, and the leaves afford good fodder for 

 cattle. An earlier name for this plant under Bridelia is B. spinosa, 

 ee Cooke Fl. Bomb. 1. c. 



2. B* montana, Willd. Sp. PL iv, 978, var. commums, Frpin 

 Beng. PI. 928. B. montana, Royle III. 327 (not of Willfi.) ; 

 Brandts For. Fl. 450 ; Ind. Trees 560, F. B. I. v, 269 ; Watt E. Dl. 

 Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 346 ; Gamble Man. 596 ; Collelt Fl. Sim. 

 448. Vern. Gondni (Saharanpur). 



A small or moderate-sized glabrous deciduous tree ; trunk short, with 

 a low spreading crown ; bark dark-grey ; branchlets often warted. 

 Leaves membranous, very variable, 4-7 in. long, obovate-oblong or 

 broadly obovate, obtuse acute or abruptly mucronate, entire, often 

 shining above, paler beneath, but not glaucous ; main lateral nerves 



