N. 0. EUPHOUUIACEjE. 
1137 
cracks, exfoliating in rectangular woody scales. Wood dark, 
reddish-brown, tough, hard, close-grained ; keartwood small. 
Branches spreading, rigid, twiggy, smooth or pustulate. Foliage 
bright-green. Leaves coiiaceous, orbicular, broadly ovate or 
elliptic; tip rounded or retuse, glaucous beneath, 1 1-4 by 
1 j-3in., pale when dry, loosely reticulate, young, membranous 
and faintly pubescent beneath, old 4-8 pair, spreading, very 
slender ; petiole jin. Flowers yellowish-green, in small axillary, 
silky clusters; calyx-lobes lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate. Calyx 
jin. male, pulvinate, of female conical with a thick margin. 
Ovary quite glabrous, globose, styles free thick ; stigmas fleshy, 
lobed Capsule -jin., obscurely 3-lobed, woody sessile ; rurely 
4-lobed, dark-brown, shining and wrinkled when dry, top not 
lobed. Seeds 3, jin. diam., globose chestnut-brown ; albumen 
scanty. 
Uses ; —The bark or outer crust of capsule said to be exceed- 
ingly poisonous (O’Shaughnessy.) 
In Chutia Nagpur the fruit and bark are employed to poison 
fish ; the latter is also considered a useful application in 
cutaneous diseases. For severe headache, the head and upper 
part of the body are bathed in water in which the leaves have 
been steeped (ltevd. A. Campbell.) An extract of the leaves 
and fruit acts as a violent gastro-intestinal irritant. 
1128. Andraclinc cordifnlia, Mucll., ii.f.iu., v. 
283. 
Vern. : — JCurkni, gurguli, kurkuli (Pb.). 
Habitat : — Central and Western Temperate Himalaya, from 
Nepal westwards to Murree. 
A small shrub with slender branches. Young shoots, 
petioles, and underside of leaves hairy. Wood white, moder- 
ately hard-grained. Leaves l-2in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse or 
mucronate, pale when dry, nerves very slender. Petiole 
filiform, j-j in. Flowers jin. diam., monoecious, axillary on long, 
filiform pedicels, j-l jin long. Calyx segments obovate, acute, 
enlarged in fruit. Petioles keeled, spathulate,; disk 'of 5 Hat, 
bifid, membranous glands. 'Fruit jin. diam., depressed, globose, 
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