590 



XCVIII. EUPHORBIACE^ 



[Mdllotus 



(6) Petiole £ the length of blade or longer. 



25. M. philippinensis, Muell. Arg.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 289.— Syn. Rottlera 

 tinctoria, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 168. Vern. Raini, Rohni, Roli, Rora, Hind.; 

 Kapila, Hulichellu, Kan. ; Kapila, Tarn. ; Manjana, Mai. ; Taw thidin, Burma. 



A large shrub or small tree, branchlets, young 1. and inflorescence tawny- 

 or rusty-pubescent, 1. alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, glabrous 

 above, underside pubescent and with numerous minute red orbicular glands, 

 blade 4-9, pet. 2-3 in. long, basal n. 3, midrib penninerved. PI. dioecious, in 

 terminal often panicled brown or brick -red spikes. Ovary tomentose, 3-celled, 

 styles \ in. long, thickly papillose. Capsule 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved, 

 densely covered with a bright red powder consisting of resin mixed with 

 minute stellate hairs. 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Punjab eastwards, ascending to 4,500 ft. Bengal. 

 Central India. Both Peninsulas. Fl. July-January. Never quite leafless. The 

 powder which covers the capsules {Kamela, Kamala) is used for dyeing silk. — Ceylon. 

 Malay Penins. and Archip. Australia. China. 26. M. repandus, Muell. Arg. Assam. 

 Silhet. Bengal. Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower. "Western Peninsula. — 

 Ceylon. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. New Caledonia. A large straggling or 

 climbing dioecious shrub, stem often fluted with very rough bark, and (Talbot) large 

 often fascicled spines 1-3 in. long. Branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflor- 

 escence with tawny stellate tomentum. L. broadly triangular-ovate, blade 2—4, pet. 

 slender 1-1^ in. long, 3 basal n., underside with minute shining orbicular scales. <J 

 racemes panicled, anther-cells of the inner stamens often quite separate, attached at 

 different levels of the connective, Capsule didymous, clothed with dense stellate 

 tomentum. 



II. Disk glandular in both sexes. Seeds with a thick fleshy coat. 



27. M. Kurzii, Hook. f. — Syn. Blumeodendron Tokbrai, Kurz. Andamans. Perak. 

 A large evergreen tree, perfectly glabrous. L. opposite or in whorls of 3, rigidly 

 coriaceous, entire, elliptic, blade 6-9, pet. 1-2 in., sec. n. prominent beneath, 4-6 pair, 

 the lowest pair basal, tert. n. obscure, cj fl. in short racemes, hypogynous glands 

 (disk) minute, thick. 



38. TREWIA, Linn. ; PI. 

 Brit. Ind. v. 423. 



Soft - wooded deciduous 

 trees, 1. opposite or nearly 

 so, quite entire, 3-5 basal 

 nerves. Fl. often appearing 

 before the 1., dioecious, ape- 

 talous, disk 0. $ : fascicled 

 lateral pendulous ra- 

 cemes, calyx globose in bud, 

 splitting into 3-4 broad 

 concave, often reflexed seg- 

 ments. Stamens oo on a 

 convex receptacle, filaments 

 free, pistillode 0. $ : sepals 

 3-5, caducous, ovary hairy, 

 2^4-celled, styles 

 connate below, 

 long, entire, papil- 

 lose all over. Pr. 

 fleshy, endocarp 

 crustaceous. 

 Species 2. 



1. T. nudi- 

 flora, Linn. ; 

 Wight Ic. 1. 1870. 

 Vern. Tumri, 



Fig. 184. — Trewia nudiflora, Linn. 



