80. EtJpHORBiACEJi. \AcJenoMcena. 



Western Penmstilg, on tfee ghats from Kanara to tiie Nilgiris and 

 Travancore, Ceylon. Evergreen forests of North Kanara, on the Snpa. 

 ghats, along streams. FL it. Fr. ripe Feb.-ApL A small tree.- 



23. ADENOCHLJSNA, Baill. 



Trees or i?hrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, 3 or penninerve^. 

 Flowers monoecious, in terminal or axillary, interrupted spikes or 

 capitate, males many^ females few, at base of spike. Disk 0. Male 

 fl. globose in bud. b^pals 4-6, valvate. Stamens 4-6, filaments free^ 

 exserted j anther-cells adnate to tbe thick connective;, parallel. Female 

 fl. Sepals 5-8, r arrow, unequal, accrescent. Ovary 3-celled; styles 

 long, connate at the base, bifid above, recurved, plumose with multifid 

 arms; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a 3-celled capsule. Seeds subglo- 

 bose, estropliiolate, albuminous^ with a erustaeeous testa ; albumeo 

 fleshy j cotyledons bread, flat. 



A. indica, Bedd. MSS. Fl. Br. I. 5. 418. Cevlmlocroton indicumy Bedd* 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 261. 



Western Peninsula, on the ghats from Kanai a to Travancore. Evergeen; 

 forests of North Ednara,| near the|falla of Gairsoppah. Fl. Oet.-Dec- 

 A shrub or small tiee with white, smooth_bark. 



24. TREWIA. Linn, 



Soft wooded trees. Leaves simple, opposite, broadly ovate or 

 orbicular, cordate, entire, 3-5 -basal nerved and sometimes glandular^ 

 Flowers small, in axillary racemes, dioecious. Calyx 3-4-partite in 

 the male flowers, valvate in the females, imbricate in bud. Petals 

 and disk 0, Male fl. Calyx globose, splitting into 3-4,. concave 

 often reflexed segments. Stamens numerous, free, on a central 

 depressed torus. Fem. fl. Calyx of 3-5, broad sepals, imbricatey 

 caducous. Ovary 3-4-cened ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles connate at ike 

 base, long, undivided. Fruit a fleshy drupe, indekiscent or endocarp 

 localicidal. Seeds albuminous,, testa hard j cotyledons broad, fla.t. 



Female towers solitary. Fruit globoscr 1| in. 

 woody, indehiscent 1. T, nudiflora. 



Female flowers in short racemes. Fruit ^ in. endo- 

 carp loculicidal « 2. T. 'pclyearpa, 



1. T. nudmora, Linn. Sp. PL Ed. 3. Append. 1661 ; FL Br. I. 5. 423; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 443 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 231. Peiari, Yern. ; Tumri^ 

 ehillauri, hat-lcumbla, K. 



Hotter parts of India from Kumaon southwards and eastwards to 

 Ceylon and Assam. Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara in 

 moist forests, often along the banks of rivers and nalas. Fl. Dec. -Feb. 

 Fr. R. S. A large, deciduous tree. Bark grey, smooth. Wood wbite, 

 soft. Pores moderate-sized, subdivided, often elongated. Med. rays 

 fine, closely packed, uniform. Weighs 29 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used 



