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80. EUPHORBIACE^* 



Througliout tropical India from Oadli to Assam and Burma and 

 southwards to Travancore and Ceylon. 



Thronghout the Konkan and North Kanara, often in hedges. PI. H. S. 

 Fr. R. S. A large shrub. Styles obscure. Fruit red, succulent. Seeds 

 eXarillate. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate, disl'chous, membranoas, entire ; stipules 

 minute. Flowers minute, monoecious, axillary. Male fl. Calyx 6- 

 lobed, disciform, urceolate or turbinate ; lobes spurred inwards at the 

 base. Stamens 3 on a triangular column ; anthers extrorse, pistillode 

 0. Female fl. Calyx 6-cleft, persistent, accrescent ; styles 3, sessile, 

 spreading with 3 recurved, incurved arms. Fruit globose, depressed^ 

 epicarp fleshy or coriaceous, 6-valved or rupturing irregularly, con- 

 taining 6 J indehiscent, 3-angled, crustaceous or bony cocci ; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



S. quadrangularis, Muell. Arg. in Linn93a XXX FT. 72 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 

 335. Geratogynum rhamnoides, Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 234. GhikUi M. 



Northern Behar, Coromandel Coast. The Konkan and Mysore, Burma. 

 Konkan and in North Kanrra, near the Arbail ghit, in evergreen 

 forests. A small slender Uii.ached shrub. The spurred petals of the 

 minute male flower are remarkable. Fl. June-Aug. Fr. July-Sept. 



Armed or unarmed shrubs. Leaves small, alternate, distichous, 

 stipulate. Flowers minute, axillary, dioecious. Petals 0. Males in 

 axillary fascicles ; females subsolitary. Male fl. Sepals 5-subpetaloid, 

 imbricate. Stamens 5 with alternating disk glands ; filaments free ; 

 anthers erect^ cells parallel. Pistillode large^ 2-3-fid. Female fl. 

 Calyx same as in male fl. Disk annular, toothed. Ovary 1-3-celled ; 

 styles 3, bifid ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit more or less succulent, 

 separating into 2-valved cocci. Seed 3-angled, dorsally convex, ven- 

 trally acute, albumen scanty j embryo curved ; cotyledons flat. 



1. F. mierocarpa, Blame Bijd. 580 ; Fl. Br. L 5. 328. F. Leicco- 

 pyrus Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236 (not of Willd.). Seciirinega ohovata, 

 Muell. Arg.; Brand>i For. Fl. 455; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 197. Pandhar-pJiali, 

 kodarsi, M. ; Bili Jiorlij K. 



Throughout India from Kashmir to Bhotan and southwards to 

 Malacca and Travancore, Burma, China and Australia. 



Throughout the presidency in deciduous forests, common. Fl. Hot 

 season. Fr. R. S. A large unarmed shrub with angular branchlets. 

 Bark grey, with small lenticular specks. Wood reddish-yellow, close- 

 grained, strong and durable. Used for agricultural implements. Bark 

 used to intoxicate fish. 



8. SAtJROPUS, Blume. 



9. PLUEGGIA, Willd. 



Unarmed shrub... 

 Spinous slirub ... 



... 1. F. mierocarpa. 

 ... 2. F. Leucopyrus, 



