320 



80. EUPITORBTACEiE 



{^Excacaria. 



1. E. Agalloelia, Linn. Sp. PI. 1451 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 472 ; BrandisFor 

 Fl. 442 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 227 ; Bedd. Fl. Syly. 255. The Blind- 

 ing Tree. Geva, surund, phungali, M. ; Haro, K. 



Tidal forests on the sea coast of India and Ceylon. In tidal marshes, 

 along the coast of the presidency, very common. Fl. July-Aug. Fr. Sept.- 

 Oct. A small tree with a poisonous sap which hardens into a kind of 

 black caoutchouc. Wood white or yellow, soft and spongy. Pores small, 

 in short lines. Medullary rays fine, closely packed. Weighs S6 lbs. to 

 the cub. ft. Useful for general carpentry. The fishing nets along the 

 western coast are supported by floats made from the roots of this tree. 



2. E. robusta, Hook, f. Fl. Br. 1. 474. Konkan, Stocks. 



Oeder 81. URTICACEiE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, often with milky sap. Leaves simple, 

 usually alternate. Stipules present, often deciduous. Flowers small, 

 or minute, iu heads or cymes, usually monoecious or dioecious. Perianth 

 simple of 3-5 segments. Stamens as many as perianth-segments and 

 opposite to them, anthers 2 -celled. Ovary free, 1-celled, 1-ovuled ; 

 style often excentric, simple or 2 -fid wdth stigmatose arms or stigma 

 sessile, plumose or penicillate. Fruit various. Seeds with or without 

 albumen, erect or pendulous, embryo various. 



Flowers bisexual, polygamous or monoicons. Anthers 

 erect in bud. Ovule peudulons. Trees with watery 

 sap. 



Flowers bisexual. Fruit a. samara .. ... 1. Holoptelea. 



Flowers polygamous, or unisexual. Fruit a drupe. 

 Flowers polygamous. Male sepals imbricate. 



Stipules free. Cotyledons broad ... 2. Celtis. 

 Flowers monoicous. 



Male sepals induplicate-valvate. Stipules free. 



Cotyledons narrow ... ... 3. Trema. 



Male sepals imbricate, stipules connate, 



convolute. Embryo contorted ... 4, G-ieoitnieba. 



Flowers monoicous or dioicous. Stamens inflexed in 

 bud. Ovule pendulous. Trees with milky sap. 

 Flowers dioicous. Male flowers capitate. Females 



solitary. Stigmas 2, filiform ... ... 5. Steeblfs. 



Flowers dioicous. Male and female flowers in 



globose beads. Style undivided ... ... 6. Plecospermfm. 



Flowers mono or dioicous. Male and female 

 flowers spikate. Styles free or connate at tbe 

 base ... ... ... ... 7. MoBUs, 



Flowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads, often with 

 a fleshy axis or enclosed in a fleshy receptacle. An- 

 thers erect in bud. Ovule pendulous. Trees or 

 shrubs with milky juice. 

 Flowers on the inner wall of a closed receptacle . 8. Ficirs. 

 Flowers on the outside of a cylindrical fleshy 



receptacle ... ... .. ... 9. Abtocarpus. 



Male flowers on a disk-like receptacle ; females 



solitary ... ... ... ... IQ, AntiaeiS. 



