XC. EUPHORBIACEiE 
449 
enclosed in the fleshy disk ; styles 2, terminal, 2-branched. 
Drupe ovoid, £ in. long, seated on the persistent calyx ; stones 
usually 2. 
Lower hills from Assam to the Jheelam, ascending to 3500 ft. ; April, May. 
5. ANDRACHNE. Origin of name obscure. — Asia, S. Europe, 
N. America. 
Andrachne cordifolia, Muell. Arg. ; FI. Br. Ind. v. 283. A 
small shrub ; branches round, glabrous, slender. Leaves alter- 
nate, long-stalked, thin, entire, ovate-oblong, l-3£ x£-l|in., base 
rounded or narrowed into the stalk, rarely cordate, upper surface 
glabrous, lower pale and thinly hairy. Flowers £ in. diam., green, 
on long, slender, axillary stalks, the males usually in clusters of 3-6, 
the female solitary, both sexes on the same plant. Male flowers : 
calyx 5-parted, segments ovate ; petals 5, spathulate ; disk 10- 
toothed, star-like ; stamens 5, surrounding a small, rudimentary 
pistil, filaments incurved. Female flowers : calyx as in the male 
but enlarging in fruit to 4 in. diam. ; petals reduced to minute 
glands ; disk a fleshy ring encircling the base of the globose, 
3 -celled ovary ; styles 3, deeply divided in 2 long branches. Cap- 
sule globose £ in. diam., 6-valved ; seeds 6, triangular. (Fig. 147.) 
Simla, the Glen, Mushobra ; May-September. — Temperate Himalaya, 
5000-8000 ft.— W. Asia. 
