100 EUPHORBIACE&. [PUTRANJIVA. 



styles 3, short, recurved, stigmas crescent-shaped. Drupe J-J in. 

 long, ovoid -globose, rounded or pointed at the apex, white-tomen- 

 tose. Putamen pointed, very hard, deeply wrinkled, 1 -seeded. 



Moist shady forests in the Dehra Dun and Saharanpur forest divisions 

 and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tracts. Flowers April 

 and May, and the fruit ripens during the cold season. DISTBIB. : 

 Throughout Tropical India, also in Ceylon and Burma. The whitish 

 strong and durable wood is used by turners. Rosaries are made of 

 the hard stones of the fruit to place round the necks of Hindu children 

 to v keep them in good health. The leaves are lopped for fodder and 

 the seeds yield an oil which is used for burning. 



10. CYCLOSTEMON, Blume ; Fl. Brit, Ind. v, 339. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire or crenulate, base 

 often unequal. Flowers dicceious, in axillary clusters. Petals 

 none. MALE-flowers : Sepals 4-6. Stamens many or few, inserted 

 round a globose or depressed disk ; filaments short, free ; anthers 

 erect, the cells parallel. Pistillode none or minute. FEM. -flowers : 

 Calyx as in male. Disk annular or none. Ovary 2-4-celled, style 

 elongate or none ; stigmas dilated, fleshy or connate in a peltate 

 disk, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit subglobose or ovoid, indehiscent ; 

 pericarp hard, 2-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell, albumen fleshy, 

 cotyledons broad and flat. Species about 18, in Trop. India, 

 Malaya and Africa. 



C. assamicus, Hk. f. in F. B. I. v, 342 ; Kanjilal For. FL 

 (ed. 2), 350 ; Gamble Man. 607 ; Pram Beng. PL 937 ; Erandis 

 Ind. Trees 567. 



A small evergreen tree with very thin greenish-grey bark. Leaves 3-5 

 in. long, ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute at the apex, 

 dark-green, glabrous, shining ; base rounded or acute, usually 

 oblique ; margins undulate ; main lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, slender ; 

 petioles up to J in. long ; stipules none. Flowers globose, green . 

 MALE-flowers in clusters. Stamens about 12. FEM. -flowers solitary. 

 Ovary 2-celled, densely silky ; stigmas 2, subsessile, fleshy. Fruit 

 shortly pedicelled, j-f in. long, ovoid or elliptic-oblong, rusty-tomen- 

 tose. Seeds solitary in each cell ; testa coriaceous, red. 



Forests of Dehra Dun : n swamps (Kanjilal) and eastwards along the Sub- 

 Himalayan tract. Flowers Nov. -Dec. DISTRIB. : Kumacn up to 



