110 EUPHORBIACEJE. [ TREWIA. 



Ovary woolly ; styles J-f in. long, yellow. Fruit almost woody, 

 globose, 1-1 in. in diam. Seeds smooth and polished, dark-brown. 

 Ravines and damp places in the forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, 

 extending eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan forest tracts of 

 Rohilkhand, N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. The tree is leafless from 

 Jan. to March, the new leaves appear during March and April, and 

 the flowers between Feb. and April, and the fruit ripens during the 

 cold season. DISTRIB. : Kumaon, Assam and the Khasia Hills, and 

 southwards throughout the hotter parts of India and in Ceylon, 

 extending to Burma and to the Malay Pen, and Islands. Brandis 

 states that this tree, reproduces abundantly from root-suckers. The 

 soft white wood is used for making drums. 



17. MALLOTUS, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 427. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, entire toothed 

 or 3-lobed, penniveined or 3-7 -nerved, sometimes peltate, often 

 gland-dotted beneath and sometimes with glandular areas at the 

 base on the lower surface. Floivers small, dioecious or monoecious, 

 apetalous, arranged in axillary or terminal simple or branched 

 spikes or racemes ; males fascicled, females solitary in the bracts. 

 MALE flowers : Calyx globose or ovoid, 3 -5 -partite, lobes valvate. 

 Disk none. Stamens many, crowded on the flat or convex recep- 

 tacle, filaments free, anthers small, dorsifixed ; the cells globose 

 or shortly oblong, parallel, adnate to the wide connective, often 

 distinct. Pistillode none or very minute. FEM. flowers : 

 Calyx spathaceous or 3-6-lobed or-partite. Disk none or small ; 

 styles free or connate below, spreading or recurved above, entire 

 plumose or papillose, ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit a capsule 

 of 2-3 (rarely 4) 2-valved tubercled echinate paleaceous or smooth 

 cocci. Seeds ovoid oblong or globose, testa crustaceous, albumen 

 fleshy, cotyledons broad and flat. Species 70-80, in tropical regions 

 .of the Old World. 



M. phiipplnensis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxiv, 196 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 444 ; Ind. Trees 590 ; F. B. I. v, 442 ; Watt E. D.; Comm. 

 Prod. Ind. 755 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 353 ; Gamble Man, 619 ; 

 Collett Fl. Siml. 453 ; Prain Beng. PL 950 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 

 615. Rottlera tinctoria, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 827 ; Royle III. 329. 

 Vern Kamela, mini (Behra Dun), reoni (Bundelkhand), rohni (Oudh), 

 senduria (Merwara). 



