. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 590 XCvIII. EUPHORBIACE-ZE [Mallohcs (h) Petiole I the length of blade or longer. 25. M. philippinensis, Mnell. Arg.: Bedd. M. Bjlv,—'&jn. Rotflera tinctorkij Pooxb. Cor. PL t. 168. Vern. Raini^ Rohni^ Roll, Rora^ Hind.; Kapila^ IltcUchellUj Kan.; Itapila, Tarn.; Manjana, Mai.; Taw tliidin^ Burma. A large shrub or small tree, branchlets, young 1. and inflorescence tawny- or rusty-pubescent, 1. alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ent
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 590 XCvIII. EUPHORBIACE-ZE [Mallohcs (h) Petiole I the length of blade or longer. 25. M. philippinensis, Mnell. Arg.: Bedd. M. Bjlv,—'&jn. Rotflera tinctorkij Pooxb. Cor. PL t. 168. Vern. Raini^ Rohni^ Roll, Rora^ Hind.; Kapila^ IltcUchellUj Kan.; Itapila, Tarn.; Manjana, Mai.; Taw tliidin^ Burma. A large shrub or small tree, branchlets, young 1. and inflorescence tawny- or rusty-pubescent, 1. alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, glabrous above, underside pubescent and with numerous minute red orbicular glands, blade 4-9, pet. 2-3 in. long, basal n. 3, midrib penninerved. PL dioecious, in terminal often panicled brown or brick-red spikes. Ovary tomentose, 3-celled, styles \ in. long, thickly papillose. Capsule 3-lobed, loculicidally 3-valved, densely covered with a bright red powder consisting of resin mixed with minute stellate hairs. Snbhimalayan tract, from the Punjab eastwards, ascending to 4,500 ft. Bengal. Central India. Both Peninsulas. PL July-January, Never quite leafless. The powder which covers the capsules (Kamela, Kamala) is used for dyeing silk.—Ceylon. Malay Penins. and Archip. Australia. China. 26. M. repandus, Muell. Arg. Assam. Silhet. Bengal. Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower. Western Peninsula.— Ceylon. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. New Caledonia. A large straggling or climbing dioecious shrub, stem often fluted with very rough bark, and (Talbot) large often fascicled spines 1-3 in. long. Branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. and inflor- escence with tawny stellate tomentum. L. broadly triangular-ovate, blade 2-4, pet. slender 1-1^ in. long, 3 basal n., underside with minute shining orbicular scales. 6 racemes panicled, anther-cells of the inner stamens often quite separate, attached at different levels of the connective, Capsule didymous, clothed with dense stellate t
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