PUTRANJIVA.] EUPHORBIACE&. 99 



Royle 111. 327. A small glabrous deciduous tree with pinnately 

 distichous leavers and small reddish flowers in dense clusters. The 

 arid fruit, about as large as a big gooseberry, is much used in tarts 

 or as a pickle. The tree is a native of the Malay Islands and in Mada- 

 ar. It is met with in gardens within the area of this flora and 

 in other parts of India. 



9. PUTRANJIVA, Wall.; Fl. Brit, v, 336. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, evergreen, entire or serrulate, penni- 

 nerved and reticulate. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, axillary 

 pedicelled ; the males clustered, the females subsolitary. Petals 

 and disk none. AlALE-flowers : Calyx unequally 3-6-lobed, imbricate. 

 Stamens 2-4, in the centre of the flower, filaments free or 

 partially connate ; anthers erect, cells parallel. Pistillode none. 

 FEM.-fliwvrs : Calyx as in male. Ovary ovoid, 2-3-celled ; styles 

 short, spreading, dilated into broad fleshy arms, ovules 2 in each 

 cell. Fruit An ovoid or globose drupe; endocarp hard, 1-celled. 

 Seed solitary, ovoid, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy, cotyledons 

 broad and flat. Species 2, India and Ceylon. 



P. Roxburgh!!, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61 ; Royle III. 347, t. 83 

 U* : Brandts For. FL 451, t. 53 ; 2nd. Trees 566 ; F. B. I. v, 

 336; Watt E. D.; Collttt Fl SimL 452; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 

 349 ; Gamble Man. 604 ; /rain Beng. PL 936 ; Cooke FL Bomb. 

 ti, 590. Nageia Putranjiva, Roxb. FL Ind. Hi, 766. Vern. Jiaputa, 

 putjia (Hind.), patji (Oudh), juti (Kumaon bhabar), putranjiva 

 (Sansc.). 



A moderate -sized evergreen tree, almost glabrous except the young 

 shoots ; bark-grey, whitish when young. Branches drooping. Leave* 

 alternate, coriaecous, dark-green, shining, 2J-4 in. long, obliquely 

 elliptic-oblong or ovate, obtuse, acute or shortly acuminate, entire 

 or distantly serrulate ; main lateral nerves many, with reticulate 

 venation between; petioles in. long, pubescent; stipules small, 

 triangular, acute, deciduous. Flowers small, yellow, dio3cious. 

 MALES very shortly pedicelled, arranged in dense axillary often spike - 

 like clusters. Sepals 3-5, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Stamens usually 

 3, filaments more or less connate, at the base, anthers globose. FEM.- 

 flowere 2-3 ; pedicels J-J in. long, pubescent. Sepals 5-6, broadly 

 elliptic, obtuse, concave, ciliolate. Ovary 3-celled, tomentose : 



