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XCVIII. EUPHORBIACEjE 



[Actepliila 



Assam. Kliasi hills. Cachar. Cliittagong. Upper Burma. Andamans. A shrab 

 or small tree, young shoots minutely hairy, 1. obovate or oblanceolate, base acute, 

 blade 2-7, pet. J— J in., rarely longer. Fr. depressed, orbicular, 3-lobed, 1 in. diam. on 

 pedicels 1-3 in. or several on a common peduncle. A. Thomsoni, Muell. Arg., and A. 

 javanica, Miq., probably belong to this species. 2. A. puberula, Kurz. Andamans. 

 Nicobars. A shrub, base of 1. rounded or slightly cordate, pet. |-1J in. 



Andrachne cordifolia, Muell. Arg. ; Collett Simla Flora 449 fig. 147. N. W. Himalaya, 

 Hazara to Kumaon, 5-8,000 ft. China. A small shrub with slender branches, young 

 shoots, petioles and underside of 1. hairy. L. tapering from a broad rounded base, 

 obtuse, blade 1-2, petiole slender J-J in. Fl. monoecious, axillary, on long filiform 

 pedicels, calyx-segments obovate, petals keeled, disk of 5 flat bifid glands. Capsule 

 J in. diam., supported by the enlarged calyx. 



7. BACCAUREA, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 367. 



Evergreen trees, 1. alternate usually entire. Fl. generally dioecious, apetalous, 

 hoary or tomentose, in long spiciform racemes or racemiform panicles, often on 



the old wood. Disk or 

 obscure. <J: sepals 4-5, 

 imbricate, stamens 4-8, 

 filaments free, round a 

 pubescent pistillode. 5 

 sepals 4—6 linear or ob- 

 long, ovary 2-5-celled, 

 stigmas 2-5 small sessile, 

 ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit globose, pericarp 

 coriaceous, seeds enclosed 

 in a fleshy arillus. Species 

 40-50, mostly Indo-Mala- 

 yan, a few in tropical 

 Africa and Polynesia. 



1. B. sapida, Muell. 

 Arg. Vern. Latqua, Beng. ; 

 Leteku, Ass. ; KalaBogati, 

 Sep. ; Kanazo, Burm. 



A middle-sized tree, 

 young shoots hairy, 1. 

 glabrous, membranous, 

 elongate - elliptic, often 

 obovate, blade 4-10, nar- 

 rowed into the thickened, 

 geniculate and 1-2 in. long 

 petiole. Fl. tomentose on 

 short pedicels in simple 

 bracteate spiciform densely 

 fascicled racemes, from be- 

 low the 1. or from the old 

 wood. <$ bracts -ro-i i n> ; 

 longer than the sessile 

 fl. clusters, sepals minute. 

 2 , bracts minute, sepals 

 obiong, \ in., ovary densely 

 tomentose. Fr. yellow, 

 velvety, f-1 in. diam., in 

 long bunches, hanging 

 down usually from the 



trunk and branches, pericarp leathery, seeds 3, embedded in pale rose-coloured 



delicious pulp, the arillus of the seeds. 



Fig. 181. — Baccaurea sapida, Muell. Arg. i. 



