366 EUPHORBIACE. [Hemicyclia. 
usually deflexed, obversely ovoid, more than half an inch long, 
terete, smooth, the putamen half-terete, thin-coriaceous. 
Has.—Frequent in marshy or low places in the tropical coast forests of the 
Andamans.—Fr. May.—s. 
PUTRANJIVA, Wall. 
4-6-parted, slightly imbricate in bud. Disk none. Stamens 3-2, 
free, or 1-2-adelphous. Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 3- or 
celled, with 2 ovules in each cell; stigmas various. Fruit an 
indehiscent drupe, containing a bony 1-celled and 1-seeded putamen. 
Seeds albuminous. Cotyledons almost flat, ovate, palmatinerved.— 
Trees, with alternate, more or less serrate-toothed, simple leaves. 
Stipules paired. Flowers small, the males clustered or fascicled, 
the females solitary or few in the axils of the leaves. 
Qa 
4 
Por. Fl., 451, t. 53.—Touk-yap—An evergreen large tree, the 
1-seeded hard wrinkled putam 
Has.—Pegu (Dr. Brandis in 1858).—Fl. Mareh-Apr.; Fr. Jan. 
BRIEDELIA, Willd. 
oped 
double, the outer similar to the male disk, the inner sheathing the 
ovary more or less high up, 5-lobed or-toothed at the apex. Torus 
column-like raised, bearing the stamens whorled round an ovary- 
