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XCYIII. EUPHOEBIACEiE 



[ActepMla 



Assam. Kliasi hi]ls. Cachar. Ohittagong. Upper Burma. Andamans. A shrub 

 or small tree, young shoots minutely hairy, 1. obovate or oblanceolate, base acute, 

 blade 2-7, pet. }~\ in., rarely longer. Er. depressed, orbicular, 3-lobed, 1 in. diam. on 

 pedicels 1-3 in. or several on a common peduncle. A. T/iowisowi, Muell. Arg., and J.. 

 Javanica, Miq , probably belong to this species. 2. A puberula, Kurz. Andamans. 

 Nicobars. A shrub, base of ]. rounded or slightly cordate, pet. ^-IJ in. 



Andrachne cordifolia, Muell. Arg. ; CoUett Simla Flora 449 fig. 147. N. W. Himalaya, 

 Hazara to Kmnaon, 5-8,000 ft. China. A small shrub with slender branches, young 

 shoots, petioles and underside of 1. hairy. L. tapering from a broad rounded base, 

 obtuse, blade 1-2, petiole slender J-J in. J^'l. monoecious, axillary, on long filiform 

 pedicels, calyx-segments obovate, petals keeled, disk of 5 fiat bifid glands. Capsule 

 i in. diam., supported by the enlarged calyx. 



7. BACCAUREA, Lour. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 367. 



Evergreen treeSy 1. alternate nsnally entire, M. generally dioecious, apetalous, 

 hoary or tomentose, in long spiciform racemes or racemiform panicles, often on 



the old wood. Disk or 

 obscure. cJ : sepals ^5, 

 imbricate, stamens 4-8, 

 filaments free, round a 

 pubescent pistillode. 5 

 sepals 4r-G linear or ob- 

 long, ovary 2-5-celled, 

 stigmas 2-5 small sessile, 

 ovules 2 in each cell. 



Emit 



m 

 globose, 



pericarp 



coriaceous, seeds enclosed 

 in a fleshy arillns. Species 

 40-50, mostly Indo-Mala- 

 yan, a few in tropical 

 Africa and Polynesia. 



1. B. sapida, Muell. 

 Arg. Yern. Lafqua^ Beng. ; 

 LetekUj Ass. ; KalaBogati^ 

 Nep. ; Eanazo, Burm. 



A middle-sized tree, 

 young shoots hairy, 1. 

 glabrous, membranous, 



elongate - elliptic, often 

 obovate, blade 4-10, nar- 

 rowed into the thickened, 

 geniculate and 1-2 in. long 

 petiole. M. tomentose on 

 short pedicels in simple 

 bracteate spiciform densely 

 fascicled racemes, from be- 

 low the L or from the old 

 wood, i bi*acts yV^i ^^-j 

 longer than the sessile 

 fl. clusters, sepals minute. 

 5 , bracts minute, sepals 

 oblong, I in., ovary densely 

 tomentose. ]Fr. yellow, 

 velvety, 1-1 in. diam., in 

 long Whes, hacgiBg 

 down usually from the 

 trunk and branches, pericarp leathery, seeds 3, embedded in pale rose-coloured 

 delicious pulp, the arillus of the seeds. 



Fig. 181. — Baccaurea sapida, Muell. Arg. 4- 



