JBtschofia,] 



80. EUPHORBIACE^. 



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Tropical Himalaya from Kumaoii eastwards and from Assam south- 

 wards. Deccan peninsula on the ghats from Kanara to the Nilghiris, 

 not in Oeylon. In the evergreen forests of North Kdnara, common on the 

 gh^its. Fl. Mch. -April. Fr. ripe next Nov.-Dec. Fruit size of cherry, 

 reddish-brown, smooth, fleshy, 3-4-celled and seeded. Seeds in a bony 

 capsule like those of Pyllanthus Emhlica ; pedicels jointed. An immense 

 tree with a cylindrical trunk. Bark dark coloured with great scales 

 exfoliating from beneath. Wood red, moderately bard, rough, heart wood 

 small, darker coloured. Used for building purposes in the Nilghiris, 

 sometimes called red cedar. 



14. APOROSA, Blume. 

 Trees. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers minute, dioecious, 

 apetalous ; males in short dense spikes ; females sessile or in short, few 

 flowered spikes. Male fl. Sepals 4, membranous, imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 2-5 in the centre of the flower ; filaments capillary. Female fl. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; stigmas small, plumose, short spreading or recurved, 

 simple or 2-4-cleft ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit dehiscent ; epicarp 

 fleshy. Seeds plano-convex, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. 



A. Lindleyana, Bafll. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 645 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 849 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Syly. t. 286. Scepa Lindleyana, Wight; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fh 236. Soli, Ghella, hidchala^ K. 



A small or moderate-sized tree. Western Peninsula from the Konkan 

 southwards ; Ceylon abundant. Common in the evergreen forests of the 

 Konkan and North Kdnara. Fl. C. S. Fr. ripe June. A small or 

 moderate-sized tree. Bark thin, scaly ; inner bark yellowish with wavy 

 red fibres. Wood dull-reddish-grey, smooth, rather soft. Annual rings 

 indistinct. Pores small, equally distributed. Medullary rays moderately 

 broad and fine, wavy. Weighs 48 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for rafters 

 of huts in the Yellapur t^luka of Kanara. 



15. ANTIDESMA, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, entire, penni-nerved, 

 stipulate. Flowers small, or minute, dioicous ; males in spikes ; females 

 in spikes or raf^emes. Male fl. Calyx 3-6-lobed, lobes imbricate. 

 Petal 0. Stamens 2-5, inflexed in bud, inserted on or around the disk 

 often irregularly, anthers didymous, connective thickened. Disk entire 

 or lobed. Fern. fl. Ovary 1-celled ; stigmas 2-4, usually short 2-fid ; 

 ovules 2 ; styles 3-4. Fruit an indehiscent, 1 -seeded drupe, crowned 

 with the sublateral or terminal stigmas. Seed small, albumen fleshy. 



Small tree. Calyx 5-7-partite. Stamens 4-7. 



Ovary tomentose ... ... ... ... 1.-4. Gf-hossembilla. 



Small tree. Calyx cupular, shortly 4-lobed. 



Stamens 3, Ovary glabrous 2, A. Bunius, 



A shrub. Calyx spreading, cup-shaped, 5- 



dentate. Stamens usually 2. Ovary glabrous. 3. A. diandrum. 

 Small tree. Calyx 3-4 partite. Stamens 3-4, 



Ovary glabrous 4, ^. Menasu* 



