Cicca.] EUPHORBIACE®. 353 
peeling off in irregular, rounded pieces; cut red 3 leaves linear-oblong 
to oblong, sometimes somewhat unequal, sessile or nearly so, rounded 
at the base, }-# in. long, usually bluntish, thin-coriaceous, glaucous- 
flowers small, yellowish, on slender pedicels, clustered in the axils of 
the young leaflets and forming spurious, more or less leafy, greyish 
pubescent racemes arising sin ly or several together from above the 
former year’s fallen branchlets ; calyx usually glabrous, 6-parted, the 
lobes obovate-oblong ; staminal column slender but short; ovary 
glabrous; styles 3, elongated, twice 2-cleft, the end-lobes subulate ; 
Has.—Frequent in all leaf-shedding forests, especially the dry and open ones, 
entering also the drier hill forests, from Ava and Martaban down to lenasserim, 
up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—FI. March-Apr.; Fr. 'C.S.—1.—SS.— o. 
_ Remarxs.—Wood brown, rather heavy, rather close-grained, the annual 
Hee narrow, takes fine polish. W.—=0O'=35 pd. Bark and fruits used for 
canning. 
Has.-—Only cultivated in villages and native gardens, especially in Chit- 
tagong and nf Se also in the Settlements of the Andamans.—F. Apr.-May—1. 
(oa) sh 
- C, Leuco 
Sylv. Madr., 197, t. 24, f. 4; Brand. F 
h 
__. Yellowish, dioecious, clustered in the axils of the young leaves ; 
calyx 5-parted, the males 5-androus, the stamens alternating with 
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