N. 0. EUPHORBIAOE^. 1175 



is not indigenous within the limits of the Bombay Presidency 

 (Talbot.) 



An evergreen, glabrous tree, 20-25ft., with acrid milky juice. 

 Bark white, smooth, grey, says Gamble. Wood soft, white with 

 small, brown heartwood. Leaves 3J-5in., lanceolate, sub-acute at 

 base, alternate, acute at apex, finely crenate, serrate, glabrous, 

 shining above, venation translucent. Petiole iin., bi-glandular 

 at tip. Spikes 2-3in., leaf-opposite or sub-terminal. Flowers 

 greenish-yellow, sessile, male numerous in clusters. Female 

 flowers larger, usually 1 or 2 at base of the spike, sepals ciliate. 

 Styles 3, very long. Capsule depressed, globose, not lobed, 

 about lin. diam., glabrous, blackish-green. Pericarp thin. Cocci 

 thick and hard, woody. Seeds £in., grey. 



The woody fruit is characteristic, says Trimen. The young 

 fruit is succulent, says Brandis, mentioned by Graham. 



Uses : — The juice of this tree is reckoned of a very poisonous 



nature. The taste of the fruit is nauseous beyond description. 



The seeds are used for intoxicating fish. (Roxb.). 



The kernels afford to ether 50'3 per cent, of a thick greenish-yellow oil, 

 which, when smeared on glass, dried to a skin in two days. The iodine value 

 was 130*4. This oil is worthy of further notice. (Agricultural Ledger, 1911-12 

 No. 5. p. 165.) 



1162. S. insigne, Benth., h.f.bj., v. 471, 



Syn. : — Exccecaria insignis, Bedd. 



Vern. : — Dudla, bilodar, biloja (Pb.) ; Khinna, Khiria, 

 Khirni Dudla (Bomb.) ; Khirni, lendwa (H.). 



Habitat : —Sub-tropical Himalaya from Simla and Kumaon 

 to Bhotan. Chittagong. 



A moderate-sized, deciduous, glabrous, milky-juiced tree. 

 Branches thick, soft, leafy toward the end. Leaves alternate, 

 bright-green, toothed, ovate-lanceolate, 6-12in. Stalks l-2in., 

 bearing two large glands near top. Flowers small, yellow- 

 green, appearing before the leaves, on thick, erect termi- 

 nal. Solitary spikes, 3-10in. long, on different spikes. Male 

 flowers in circular clusters, Jin. diam., central ones falling off 

 and leaving their short stalks, outer ones sessile. Calyx 



