236 



Edin. Phil. Jour, xiv, 298; Bischofila, Tilume Bijdr. 1163; 

 Andrachne trifoliata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 728. 



27. FLUGGEA, WiUd. 



1. F Leucopyrus, Willd. — Shrubby, dioecious; leaves small, 

 obovate-cuneate, subretuse ; flowers small, axillary, crowded ; male 

 flowers pentandrous ; calyx 5-leaved ; leaflets oval-concave ; berries 

 round, pure white, smooth, size of a small pea, succulent ; 3-celled. 

 Wight Ic. 1875. Common in the Concans. Syn. Phyllanthus 

 retusus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p C)67. 



2. F ViROSA, Dalz. — A poor-looking thorny shrub, with oval or 

 elliptic leaves, larger than the preceding, narrowed towards the base, 

 2 to 2^ inches long; berry size of a [lea, covered with a white 

 fleshy pulp, 3-celied. Malabar and Worlee Hills, Bombay. We 

 have not seen this in any other locahty. The bark is used to 

 intoxicate fish. Syn. Phyllanthus virosus, Willd. iv, 578. Juice 

 of leaves fatal to worms in sores. 



28. PROSORUS, Dalz. 



1 . P Indica, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iv, p 345. — An alpine 

 tree with oval or oblong leaves, and very numerous, small, fasci- 

 cled male flowers, which appear with the young leaves in March ; 

 fruit small, capsular, uf a bluish tinge, in threes. Figured in 

 Hooker's Journal 1855; found also by Thwaites in Ceylon, where 

 the wood is used for building purposes, being white and tough. 

 On the Ghauts to the southward. 



29. PUTRANJIVA, Wallich. 



]. RoxBUEGHii, Wall. — A tree with narrow-oblong, acutely- 

 serrulate leaves, with the base oblique, smooth, shining, waved ; 

 male flowers short-peduncled, numerous, minute, yellow, collected 

 into globular heads in the axils, sometimes on short axillary 

 racemes ; female racemes small, simple, from last year's branchlets ; 

 styles 3, short, with large crescent-shaped stigmas ; drupe obovate 

 or oval, of the size of a large gooseberry, smooth, white ; nut oval- 

 pointed, very hard, rugose, 1-celled. Nagotna, Kandalla, Kennery, 

 and Alibaug Jungles ; Belgaum. Wight. Ic. 1876 ; Syn. Nageia 

 putranjiva, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 766. 



CXXI. SCEPACE^. 

 1. SCEPA, Lind. 

 1, S LiNDLEYANA, Wight Ic. 361.— A small, dioecious tree;' 



