GIVOTIA ROTTLERIFORMIS. (Nat, order Euphorbiacese.) 



CjIVOTIA. Griff.— GEN. CHAR. Diacious. Calyx 5-parted imbricate, petals 5 alternate with the calyx-segments. Male, diBk large fleshy 

 5-lobed the lobes alternate with the petals, stamens central 16-15 (10 inner long, 6 outer short) more or less united into a very short column at the base 

 but some quite free, filaments free above and hairy on their lower half, anthers 2-celled dehiscing longitudinally fixed by the centre of the back, no rudi- 

 ment of ovary. Female, disk annular sub 5-lobed, ovary 2-3-celled, cells 1-ovuled, ovules pendulous, Btyles 2-3 each 2-cleft, fruit a drupe with a hard 1 -seeded 

 nut, seed exwillate, albumen copious, cotyledons broad foliaceous palmatiuerved, radicle short superior. A tree, leaves alternate cordate long-petioled 

 palmatinerved and with all the young parts densely stellato-pubescent ; flowers in long terminal panicles. Griff. PI. Horl. Gale. 14. (ex Endl.) Govania, 

 Wall- Cat. 7851. 



GlVOTIA ROTTLERIFORMIS. (Griff.) A middling sized tree, leaves cordate or broadly ovate, somewhat lobed and 

 scollop-tootlied acute at the apex, without glands, 7-nerved, densely pubescent on both sides when young, in age more glabrous 

 above, but covered with dense white down beneath, 4-6 inches long by 3^-6 broad, petioles 3-5 inches long sometimes with 2 pro- 

 minent glands about the middle, panicles 10-20 inches long covered with dense white stellate pubescence, flowers congested at the 

 apex of the branchlets, bracts filiform 3 lines long, flowers about 4 lines long as in the generic character, 2 of the segments of the 

 calyx with a blunt appendage on the outside below the apex, fruit oblong the size of a pigeon's egg. Wight Icones. tab. 1889. 



A very common tree in all dry subalpine forests on the west side of this Presidency, also on our eastern mountains and in Ceylon ; it is 

 called Telia Poonkee in Teligu, Vend&le in Tamil ; the wood is very light and soft and used to make toys, imitation fruit, boxes, &c, and catama- 

 rans ; it takes paint very well ; the seed yields an oil valuable for fine machinery. 



Analysis. 



1. Branch of a male tree in flower. 



2. A male flower bud, sepals imbricate. 



3, 4. Male flowers, 2 of the sepals with an appendage on the outside below the apex, petals imbricate. 



5. Calyx cut open. 



6- The 5-lobed disk and stamens removed from the flower, filaments 16, some free others connate, the 6 outer ones Bhorter than 

 the 10 inner. 



7. Anthers front and back view, filaments attached to centre of the back of the anther. 



8. A few anthers removed from the column to show that they are connate at the base, (All drawn from living specimens.) 

 Fig. 9—12. Views of the female flower and ovary copied from Dr. Wight's drawing (as I have no specimens of the female at hand-) 



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