APOROSA LINDLEYANA. (Nat. order Euphorbiacese.) 



ApoROSA. Mume.— GEN. CHAR. Diajcious, petals and disk in both sexes. Male, calyx 3-6 generally 4-parted imbricate, Btamens 2-5, 

 rudiment of an ovary minute or absent, filaments free, "anther cells distinct globular dehiscing longitudinally. Female, calyx 4-6-parted imbricate, ovary 

 2-3-celled with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell, styles equal in number to cells of ovary very shortly united short recurved retuse or 2-lobed, drupes 2-3- 

 celled or often only 1-celled by abortion, with a single seed in each cell. Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate petioled bistipulate generally lanceolato-ovate, 

 penniveined entire or toothed, the male inflorescence in catkins, the female in axillary clusters or short spikes. Bl. Bijdr. p. 514. Leiocarpus, Bl. I. c. 581. 

 Lepidostachys, Lindky. Scepa, Lind. Tetractinostigma, BassJf. 



A.POEOSA LilNDLEYANA. (Wight.) A small or middling sized tree, gemmae puberulaus, branches glabrous, leaves 

 glabrous laneeolato-ovate acute or obtuse at the base and apex, entire, 4-6 inches long by 1^-2J broad, petioles 3-4 lines long. 

 Stipules ovate-oblong obtuse erect very membranaceous soon caducous a little pilose on the outside, 5 lines long by 2-3 lines broad. 

 Male, catkins sessile often forked about 1 inch long solitary or 2-3 together at the old axils or axillary, bracts broader than long 

 ciliate fimbriato-denticulate, calyx 4-6 parted, segments obovate or rhomboid ciliate about A a line long, anthers 2-5 more or less 

 exserted. Female, spikes solitary or twin, about 3 lines long densely bracteate, bracts broad ovate ciliate, flowers on pedicels £ to 1 

 line long, calyx generally 5-parted, segments broad ovate very small, ovary ovoid acute fulvo-pilose 2-3-celled, stigmas short bifid 

 papillose, ovules pendulous from an enlarged placenta which reaches more than i down the cells and which has a projection A 

 covering the ovule, fruit subglobose shortly apiculate £ an inch long subsessile or on a pedicel 1-2 lines long.. — Scepa Lindleyana, 

 Wight leones tab. 361. 



This tree is most abundant throughout Coorg and the Wynaad up to 4000 feet elevation, and is to be met with throughout our western 

 forests, Bombay and Ceylon, and is also found in SikJcim ; in South Canara it ii called Sulla, and in Mysore Surroli (both Canarese names), and iri 

 Ceylon Kabella ; the wood is in use for building and other purposes. 



Analysis. 



1. A branch of a male tree in flower (life size ) 



2. Portion of a male catkin magnified. 



3. A 4-sepaled male flower with 2 stamens and a minute abortive ovary. 



4. A 4-sepaled male flower with 3 stamens and an abortive ovary. 



5. A 4-sepaled male flower with 5 stamens and no rudiment of an ovary. 



6. A 6-sepaled flower with 4 stamens, no rudiment of ovary. 



7. A segment of the calyx showing the margin ciliate. 

 8- Anthers, front and back view. 



9. A branch of female tree in flower (life 3ize.) 



10. A 2-styled female flower. 



11. A 3-styled female flower. 



12. A lobe of stigma. 



13. Transverse spction of an ovary from a 2-styled flower, 2 cells, each with 2 ovules. 



14. Transverse section of an ovarj from a 3-styled flower. 



15. Vertical section of an ovary showing the very large placentas lobed over the upper portion of the pendulous ovules. 



(All the above drawn from fresh specimens.) 

 Figures 16 to 20. Views of the fruit, seed and embryo, copied from Dr. Wight's drawing, as I have no fruit at hand. 



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