ANTIDESMA.] EUPRORBIACEM. 101 



2,500 ft. and eastwards to the Darjeeling Terai, Assam, Khasia Hills, 

 and from Chota Nagpur to Eastern Bengal and the Circars. The 

 wood is hard and tough and with an even grain. 



11. ANTIDESMA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 354. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, stipules narrow, 

 Flowers dioecious, apetalous, small or minute, in slender axillary 

 or in terminal simple or branched spikes or racemes. MALE-flowers : 

 Calyx 3-5, rarely 6-8-lobed or partite. Disk entire or lobed. 

 Stamens 2-5, rarely more, inserted on or around the disk, often 

 irregularly ; filaments inflexed in bud, anthers lunate or didymous ; 

 cells globose, approximate or distant, connective thickened. Pistil- 

 lode minute or obsolete. FEM. -flowers : Calyx as in male. Disk 

 usually annular or cushion-like. Ovary usually 1 -celled ; stigmas 

 2-4, usually short, 2-fid. or 2-partite ; ovules 2, pendulous. F t pui f 

 a small more or less compressed drupe, crowned- hy'tnVsublaieral 

 or terminal stigmas. Seed small, albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 broad, flat. Species about 70, in the tropical );egi^ns 6'tj{d plel 

 World. 



Leaves very obtuse ; flowers sessile ; stamens 



4-7; ovary hairy . . . . . 1. A. Ghcesembilla. 



Loaves acute or acuminate ; flowers pedicelled ; 



stamens usually 2 ; ovary glabrous . . 2. A. diandrum. 



1. A. Ghaesembilla, Gcertn. Fruct. i, 189, t. 39 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl- 446 ; Ind. Trees 664 ; F. B. I. v, 357 ; Watt E. D.; Gamble 

 Man. 610 ; Prain Beng. PL 938 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 592. A. 

 paniculatum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 770. A. pubescens, Boxb. I. c. 



A small deciduous tree with greyish bark ; branchlets pubescent or 

 fulvous-tomentose. Leaves 2-4 in. long, oval obovate or orbi- 

 cular-oblong, rounded or emarginate at the apex, glabrous or 

 nearly so on the upper surface, pubescent or tomentose beneath ; 

 base rounded or subcordate ; main lateral nerves 5-6 pairs ; petioles 

 ^-J in. long ; stipules about as long as the petioles, lanceolate, acute, 

 downy. Flowers greenish-yellow, sessile, arranged in slender panicled 

 spikes. ~MALE-flowers : Calyx 5-7 -partite, densely fulvous-hairy. 

 Stamens 4-7 ; anthers crescent-shaped. Disk 5-part., pubescent. 

 FEM. -/foyers : Calyx as in the male. Disk annular. Ovary densely 



