NO. 53, — 1902.] TREES AND FLOWERING PLANTS. 



223 



Givotia, Trigonostemon, Ostodes, Blachia, Dimorphocalyx, 

 Agrostostaehys, Chrozophora, Acalypha, Adenochlsena, 

 Trewia, Tragia, Podadenia, Claoxylon, Mallotus, Cleidion, 

 Macaranga, Homonoia, Dalechampia, Gelonium, Chseto- 

 carpus, Sapiuin, Excsecaria, and Sebastiania. 



234. — Euphorbia Antiquorum. 



Daluk, S. q&sss! ; Chaturak-kalli, T. & j$,aa*eiretf). 

 Trim. Cey. Flor., vol. IV., p. 4. 



A small tree with (in old examples) pale grayish bark, 

 unevenly cylindrical, with large up-curving, fleshy, green, 

 and very milky branches. Leafless but for a few on the 

 apex of each crenation, and those small and detaching early. 

 Stems and angles of branches thorny. Flowers greenish, 

 in groups of three. 



Widely distributed in both Provinces, but more abundant 

 in the dry districts, though not strictly confined thereto. 

 Usually found where there is slab rock, extending to 2,500 

 feet altitude. 



Affords a very soft inferior wood, sometimes used in 

 building temporary sheds. The juice is acrid and sticky. 



[Low -country in rocky places, especially in the dry region ; 

 common.] 



23b.—Bridelia retusa. 



Keta-kela, S. asi©©^. 



Trim, Cey, Flor., vol. IV., p. 10. 



A moderate-sized tree, often armed with spines, with pale 

 yellowish or grayish bark. Leaves alternate, about four 

 inches, oblong-oval, rounded at extremities, conspicuously 

 veined, with about twenty pairs of lateral parallel veins 

 connected near the margin with a pellucid intramarginal 

 vein, but for which the leaf strongly resembles a Dipterocarp. 

 Leaf-stalks short, finely hairy. Flowers small, in close 

 clusters on a spicate axillary raceme ; green, tinged with red 

 and purple within. Fruits small, globose. 



