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in the upper axils shorter than the leaves, some altogether males, 

 some females below and then often increased above by more or 

 less abortive flowers : bracts very broadly ovate, males many- 

 flowered : male pedicels shortly exserted, jointed below : male 

 calyx irregularly 2-cleft : segments lacerately toothed : styles 

 almost free: capsules berry-shaped, thickly fleshy, subglobose, 

 obtuse : seeds adhering and persistent long after the fall of the 

 shells : flowers greenish. 



Silhet. Khasia. Assam. Flowering in March and April. 



(2) E. iNsiGNis. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 1212. 



8yn. Falconeriainsignis, Eoyle III. Bot. Mim.p. 354. — F. Wal- 

 lichiana, do. — F. Malabarica, B. Wight. 



Ungrav. Eoyle 1. c. t. 84.— Wight's Icon. t. 1866. 



Spec. Chae. Small tree : leaves elliptic, cuspidate-acuminate, 

 acute at the base, membranaceous, clayey-green or green-brownish, 

 densely reticulately veined beneath : petioles biglandular at the 

 apex : spikes unisexual, dense-flowered : segments of the male 

 calyx crenate-denticulate or entire: capsules dry, berry-shaped, 

 ovoid, 2 — 3-furrowed. 



Eajpore. Neilgherries. Vingorla hills. The milky juice is 

 highly poisonous. 



(3) E. COCHINCHINENSIS. {LoUT.) 



Ident. Lour. flor. Cochinch. 2. p. 750. —Dec. 1. c. p. 1215. 



Syn. E. crenulata, E. Wight. 



Mngrm. "Wight's Icon. t. 1865. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree or shrub: leaves opposite, obovate- 

 lanceolate, long acuminate at both ends, crenate-serrate, petioles 

 without glands : stipules narrow-lanceolate : bracts very broadly 

 ovate, acuminate, all 1-flowered, short : male calyx subsessile, 

 3-parted : segments of both sexes laciniately toothed, oblong- 

 ovate : stamens 3 : branches some male, some female, or female 

 flowers 1 — 2 sometimes situated at the base of the spikes : glands 

 of the bracts small, wrinkled. 



Hills of the Peninsula. 



(4) E. Indica. {Muller.) 



Ident. Mull. Arg. in LinnsBa vol. 32. p. 123. — Dec. 1. c. 

 p. 1216. 



Syn. Sapium Indieum, Willd. Boxl.flor. Ind. Til. p. 692. — 

 S. Hurmais, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. 17. p. 229. — Sclero- 



