N. 0. EUPHORliTAOEiE. 
1175 
is not indigenous within the limits of the Bombay Presidency 
(Talbot.) 
An evergreen, glabrous tree, 20-25ft., with acrid milky juice. 
Bark white, smooth, grey, says Gamble. Wood soft, white with 
small, brown heartwood. Leaves 3j-5in., lanceolate, sub-acute at 
base, alternate, acute at apex, finely crenate, serrate, glabrous, 
shining above, venation translucent. Petiole £in., bi-glandular 
at tip. Spikes 2-3in., leaf-opposite or sub-terminal. Flowers 
greenish-yellow, sessile, male numerous in clusters. Female 
flowers larger, usually 1 or 2 at base of the spike, sepals ciliate. 
Styles 3, very long. Capsule depressed, globose, not lobed, 
about lin. diam., glabrous, blackish-green. Pericarp thin. Cocci 
thick and hard, woody. Seeds ^in., grey. 
The woody fruit is characteristic, says Trimen. The young 
fruit is succulent, says Brandis, mentioned by Graham. 
C7ses The juice of this tree is reckoned of a very, poisonous 
nature. The taste of the fruit is nauseous beyond description. 
The seeds are used for intoxicating fish. (Roxb.). 
The kernels afford to ether 50'3 per cent, of a thick greenish-yellow oil, 
which, when smeared on glass, dried to a skin in two days. The iodine value 
was 180'4. This oil is worthy of further notice. (Agricultural Ledger, 1911-12 
No. 5. p. 165.) 
1162. S. insigne, Benth., h.f.b.i., v. 471. 
Syn. : — Excoecaria insignis, Bedd. 
Vern. Dudla, bilodar, biloja (Pb. ) ; Khinna, Kbiria, 
Khirni Dudla (Bomb.) ; Khirni, lend w a (H.). 
Habitat : — Sub-tropical Himalaya from Simla and Kumaon 
to Bhotan. Chittagong. 
A moderate-sized, deciduous, glabrous, milky-juiced tree. 
Branches thick, soft, leafy toward the end. Leaves alternate, 
bright-green, toothed, ovate-lanceolate, 6-12in. Stalks l-2in., 
bearing two large glands near top Flowers small, yellow- 
green, appearing before the leaves, on thick, erect termi- 
nal. Solitary spikes, 3-10in. long, on different spikes. Male 
flowers in circular clusters, |in. diam., central ones falling off 
and leaving their short stalks, outer ones sessile. Calyx 
