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N. 0. EUPHORBIACEÆ. 1157


l-2in. long, very variable, ½-2½in., rather slender. Racemes often fascicled, elongate erect; pedicels long or short. Stamens 10-12, woolly below, glabrous above. Sepals of male broadly oblong ; petals as long as sepals, woolly ; disk glands 5, rounded. Sepals of female oblong ; petals small, linear ciliate ; disk depressed. Ovary oblong, 3-gonous, styles 2-partite. Capsule globose, ⅓in. diam., lepidote, 3-lobed ; top depressed.

Uses :— The seeds and fruits are purgative.

" The Goanese and inhabitants of Southern Concan administer the bark in chronic enlargements of the liver and in remittent fever. Tn the former disease, it is both taken internally and applied locally. As an application to sprains, bruises, rheumatic swellings, etc., it is in great request." (Dymock.) In the Southern Concan, it has a reputation as a remedy in snake -bites (Pharmacogr. Ind. III 287).

The Santals use the bark and root as a purgative and as an alterative in dysentery. (Campbell.)

1148. C. caudatus, Geisel., h.f.b.l, v. 388.

Syn. :— C. drupaceum, Roxb. 688.

Vern.:—Nan bhantúr (Beng.) ; Takchabrik (Lepcha) ; Wnsta (Uriya).

Habitat: — Eastern Himalaya ; Sikkim and Bhotan. Assam, Bengal and Sylhet to the Deccan.

A large straggling shrub, more or less scandant. Stem often attaining 1-1½ft. Girth, branchlets, petioles, young leaves and inflorescence rough with stellate hair. Bark thin, grey. Wood white or yellowish-white, hard, close-grained. Leaves very variable, smaller l-3in., ovate-cordate; larger 4-7in., orbicular-cordate ; margin denticulate or rather coarsely toothed, often with a gland at the sinus or the teeth glandular, upper surface smooth or scaberulous, lower scabrid or tomentose ; nerves 2-3 pair above the basal, pubescent above ; glands minute. Petiole l-2in., scabrid ; stipules lacinate, glandulose. Racemes very long, slender, 4-10in. solitary, terminal. Bracts subulate or 0. Pedicels long or short. Male flowers tomentose ; sepals and petals of equal length. Disk-glands minute ; receptacle villous with white hairs. Stamens 18-30, often far exserted ; filaments

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