Flueggia."] 



80. EUPII0RBIACE-?E. 



305 



2. F. Leueopyrus, WiUd. Sp. PI.. IV. 757 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 328 ; i^. 

 virosa^ Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236. Sectirmerja LeuGopyrus^ Muell. Ar^.; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 456 ; Bodd. Fl. Sylv. 197. VorejmvaUf M.; Kiran, Sind ; 

 Parpo, Kon. 



Punjab, Deccan peninsula from North Kdnara soutbwards, Burma and 

 Ceylon, 



Tlirougbout the presidency and Sind, usually in open situations, very 

 common. Fl. H. S. Fr. R. S. A large spinous shrub. Bark grey or 

 dark brown with small white lenticels. Wood pink, hard, close-grained ; 

 used for fuel. The fruit of both the above species is a white, globose, 

 edible berry. 



10. PUTRANJIVA, Wall. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, entire or serrulate. Flowers 

 dioicous, axillary, apetalous. Males clustered, females subsolitary . Disk 

 0. Male fl. ; calyx 2-5-partite, imbricate. Stamens 2-3, central ; 

 filaments free or connate. Female fl. Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles short 

 spreading, dilated into broad fleshy arms, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 

 indehiscent, 1-seeded with a bony endocarp. Seed ovoid, testa crusta- 

 ceous j albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad, flat. 



P. Roxburghii, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. 61. Cat. 6814 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 336 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 451 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv, Fl. 275; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 236. Putranjivay Vern, ; Aumanh K. ; Futajan, Hind. 



Throughout tropical India from the lower Himalaya eastwards and 

 southwards to Pegu and Ceylon. In the evergreen forests ot the Konkan 

 and North Kanara, nowhere common. Fl. Mch.-May. Fr. ripe next 

 Feb.-Mch. A moderate- sized evergreen tree. Bark corky with shallow 

 fissures, inner bark yellow. Wood light, grey, moderately hard, evergreen 

 and durable. Annual rings marked by prominent lines. Pores small or 

 moderate- sized in radial lines. Med, rays fine, uniform, closely packed, 

 crossed by namerous transverse bars of light tissue. Weighs 48 lbs. to 

 the cub. ft. Used for turning. Nuts strung into necklaces, which are 

 put round the necks of children to preserve them from evil, hence the origin 

 ■of the name jpuiranjiva. 



11. HEMICYCLIA, W & A. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, patioled, entire, often unequal 

 at the base. Flowers small, dioecious, apetalous ; males clustered at 

 the nodes ; female flowers subsolitary. Male fl. Sepals 4-5, imbri- 

 cate, inner larger. Stamens 4-23, inserted round an orbicular disk, 

 filaments free. Female fl. Disk flat, annular. Ovary obliquely- 

 ovoid, 1 -celled ; stigmas 1, rarely 2, sessile or on a short style, broad 

 reniform, flabelliform, orbicular ; ovules 2, in each cell. Fruit with 

 a hard endocarp. Seeds grooved, arillate ; albumen fleshy, cotyledons 

 broad, flat. 



Stamens 8-10. Fruit globose, small, pisiform .., 1. H. sepiaria. 

 Stamens 5-8, Fruit "S-'TS in. obovoid, ob- 

 lique, crowned with the stigma ... ... 2. /Z. venusfa, 



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