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petioled, spreading, broad-oval ; exterior ones largest, below whitish, 

 entire, half to three-quarters of an inch long ; male flowers racemed 

 from the lower axils ; female flowers in the upper axils, solitary, 

 short-pedtmcler), drooping ; flowers curious ; capsule size of a pea. 

 Rare, at Vingorla ; flowers in July. Syn. Phyllanthus rhamnoides, 

 Willd. iv, 580. 



24. EMBLICA, Gaert. 



1. E OFFICINALIS, Gaert.; Arboreous, branched; floriferous 

 branchlets many-leaved ; leaves linear-oblong, obtuse at both ends ; 

 flowers axillary, clustered, small, yellowish ; appear at the begin- 

 ning of the hot season ; drupe fleshy, globular, smooth/- striated ; nut 

 obovate, obtusely triangular, 3-celled; seeds 2 in each cell. The 

 fruit is ripe in October. Native name " Awla." The wood is hard 

 and durable, particularly under water ; the bark is strongly astrin- 

 gent, and is employed in the cure of Diarrhoea; the fruit is made 

 into pickles. Syn. Phyllanthus emblica, Willd. iv, 587. Concans 

 and Deccan. 



25. GLOCHIDION, Forst. 



1 . G LANCEOLARIUM, Dalz. Arboreous, smooth ; leaves short- 

 petioled, lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, shining; flowers axillary 

 fascicled ; the male flowers on longish slender peduncles ; female 

 few and sessile ; stipules obliquely ovate-acute ; capsule small, 

 depressed, turnip-shaped, grooved, 6-celled, 12-valved; seeds 

 2 in each cell. Very common on the Ghauts. No. 1328 of 

 Graham's Catalogue. Syn. Bradleia lanceolaria, Roxb. Native 

 name " Bhoma." The wood is hard and durable. 



2. G NITIDUM, Dalz. Subarboreous ; leaves large, sessile, 

 ovate-oblong, acute, shining smooth ; fascicles of flowers very 

 shortly-peduncled, supra-axillary ; male and female mixed ; capsules 

 subglobular, small; apex a little depressed, 5 to 6-celled, 10 to 12- 

 striated, 10 to 12-valved; flowers in January. Near water in the 

 Southern Concan ; at Vingorla. Syn. Bradleia nitida, Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. iii, p 699. 



26. STYLODISCUS, Bennet. 



1. S TRIFOLIATUS, Benn. in Horsf. PL Jav. A large tree 

 of quick growth ; trunk erect ; branches spreading, forming an 

 extensive, close, shady head; leaves petioled, ternate; leaflets 

 oblong-acuminate, serrated, smooth, 4 to 6 inches long ; panicles 

 axillary or supra-axillary, as long as the leaves, composed of 

 numerous small greenish flowers ; calyx 5-leaved ; corol none ; 

 stigma peltate, with 10 rays ; capsule size of a small cherry, round, 

 smooth, 3-celled. Wood very hard; Chorla Ghaut, plentiful. 

 Native name " Boke." Syn. Microclus rceperianus, W. and A. 



