560 XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE,E [Bridelia 



1. B. retusa, Spreng. ; Bedd. M. Sylv. t. 260; Brandis P. Fl. t. 55.— Syn. 

 Cluytia spinosa, Willd. ; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 172. Vern. Kaj, Kliuja, Kajja, 

 Hind. ; Kassi, Kassei, Karka, C. P. ; Kaka, Kol ; Lamkana, Ajmere ; AngnSra, 

 Banswara ; Monj, Guzerat ; Haklo, Mandevi ; Kohir, Ass. ; Asana kutgi, Mar. : 

 Gojc, Kan.; Koramadi, Tel.; Mullu-maruthu, Tarn. ; Mullu-venga, Mullu- 

 Kayani, Mai. ; Seikchi, Burm. 



A large or moderate-sized deciduous tree, bark dark coloured, heart-wood grey 

 to olive-brown. Young stems spinescent, branchlets and underside of leaves 

 iisually shortly tomentose. L. rigidly coriaceous, elongate-elliptic, sec. n. 

 straight, prominent, 15-25 pair, blade 5-10, pet. J— £ in., stipules subulate, 

 deciduous. PI. dioecious, yellow, crowded in lateral sessile clusters, these 

 commonly arranged in axillary or terminal often paniculate spikes. Disk of 

 female fl. double, the outer lining the calyx-tube, the inner 5-lobed. Drupe 

 fleshy purplish-black, edible, £ in. diam., supported by the slightly enlarged 

 calyx. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Chenab eastwards, ascending to 3,500 ft. Common in 

 the Oudh Forests and the Terai of Sikkim. Bajputana. Central Provinces. Chutia 

 Nagpur and Behar. Western Peninsula and Burma. Fl. May-July. Pr. eaten and 

 the seeds widely distributed by the green pigeon. The 1. before falling take a pinkish- 

 brown autumn tint. Coppices well. Ceylon. 2. B . assamica, Hook, f . Assam, Silhet. 

 Branches sparsely pubescent, 1. membranous, minutely puberulous beneath, blade 6-12, 

 pet. $ in., sec. n. slightly arching 15-20 pair, fl. sessile, in minute axillary clusters, 

 fr. nearly 1 in. long ovoid, on the unaltered calyx. 3. B. montana, Willd. (Cluytia 

 montana, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 171). Gonclni, Hind. Subhimalayan tract from Jhelum east- 

 wards, ascending to 3,500 ft. Khasi hills. Central Provinces. Behar, Orissa. Upper 

 Burma. A middle-sized tree, glabrous, branchlets tuberculate, 1. usually obovate, 

 shining above, pale beneath, margin undulate, blade 3-7, pet. J-J in., fl. in small 

 dense axillary clusters. Pr. elongate-ovoid narrowed at both ends, seated on the 

 unaltered calyx. 4. B. burmanica, Hook. f. (B. amoena, Kurz P. PI. ii. 368). Cult, in 

 Hort. Bot. Calc. believed to have been brought from Upper Burma'. Quite glabrous, 

 1. membranous, obtuse, margin undulate, blade 4-7, pet. J in. long, sec. n. 12-20 pair, 

 slender, reticulate veins anastomosing between the tertiary n. prominent, fl. in small 

 axillary clusters, green and red. 



B. Sec. nl few, usually 5-12 pair. 



(a) L. pubescent or tomentose beneath. 



5. B. stipularis, Blume. — Syn. Cluytia- scandens, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 173. Vern. Harin- 

 hara, Beng. ; Dunki-bura, Tel. Subhimalayan tract from the Ganges eastwards, 

 ascending to 2,000 ft. Abundant in the Sal forests of Oudh, Jalpaiguri, and the 

 Western Duars. Behar. Bengal. Both Peninsulas. PI. May-Oct. — Ceylon, rare. 

 Ind. Arch. A large scrambling or climbing shrub, branchlets, petioles and underside 

 of 1. with soft tawny tomentum. L. elliptic or obovate, blade 2-6, pet. J-J in. long, 

 sec. n. arching, 8-12 pair, transverse veins at right angles, parallel. Fl. greenish- 

 yellow, in compound clusters in the axils of leaves or bracts, often supported by broad- 

 lanceolate stipular bracts, and frequently forming long panicled spikes at the ends of 

 branches, calyx nearly glabrous, petals orbicular, similar in both sexes, disk of $ fl. 

 fimbriate. Pr. oblong i in. long, seated on the slightly enlarged calyx. 6. B. dasycalyx, 

 Kurz. Pegu forests. Similar, calyx densely hairy outside. 7. B. pubescens, Kurz. 

 Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, hot valleys ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills. Singbhum. 

 Eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma. Martaban hills, common. A large or middle-sized 

 tree, branchlets and 1. beneath tawny pubescent, 1. membranous, elliptic or obovate, 

 shortly acuminate, blade 4-6, pet. £ in., sec. n. 9-12 pair, arching. Fl. pubescent in 

 compact axillary clusters, fr. J in. long, ovoid, almost cylindric. 8. B. tomentosa, 

 Blume. Sikkim Terai. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Eastern Bengal. Lower 

 Burma. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. Australia. A shrub or small tree, 

 branchlets and 1. beneath minutely pubescent, 1. undulate, lanceolate, glaucous 

 beneath, blade 1-3, pet. slender J in. long. Fr. globose J-J in. diam. 



(b) L. glabrous, or nearly so. 



9. B. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Behar. Chanda district. Konkan. A straggling shrub, 

 branchlets glabrous, 1. glabrous or minutely hairy beneath, elongate- or obovate- 

 elliptic, often rhomboid, sec. n. 6-9 pair, nearly straight, branched, blade 1—4, narrowed 

 into pet. jJ-J in. long, stipules linear-lanceolate. Fr. globose £ in. diam. Prain, 

 Bengal Plants 927 unites this with B. montana, Willd. 10. B. Kurzii, Hook. f. Anda- 

 mans. Nicobars. Malay Penins. Glabrous, 1. elliptic-oblong, obtuse, base rounded, 

 blade 2—4, pet. \ in. long, reticulate veins distinct on both sides. Fl. minute, fr. 



