N. 0. EUPHORBIACEÆ. 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 3½-5in., lanceolate, sub-acute at base, alternate, acute at apex, finely crenate, serrate, glabrous, shining above, venation translucent. Petiole ½in., 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 ½in., grey.
The woody fruit is characteristic, says Trimen. The young fruit is succulent, says Brandis, mentioned by Graham.
Uses : — 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 130.4. 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. : — Excœcaria insignis, Bedd.
Vern. : — Dúdla, bilodar, biloja (Pb.) ; Khinna, Khiria, Khirni Dudla (Bomb.) ; Khirni, lendwa (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 terminal. Solitary spikes, 3-10in. long, on different spikes. Male flowers in circular clusters, ¼in. diam., central ones falling off and leaving their short stalks, outer ones sessile. Calyx
