. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 584 XCVIII. EUPHORBIACEiE [Baphmi 31. SAPIUM, Patrick Browne; M. Brit. Ind. v. 469. Trees and shrubs, 1. alternate, penninerved, often 2 glands on petiole below insertion of blade. Fl. monoecious, apetalous in terminal simple or panicled spikes or racemes, $ several or many, 5 solitary in the axil of the bract, a pair of large glands at the base of each bract, disk 0. $ : Calyx 2~3-toothed or -lobed, stamens 2-3, filaments free, anther-cells co
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 584 XCVIII. EUPHORBIACEiE [Baphmi 31. SAPIUM, Patrick Browne; M. Brit. Ind. v. 469. Trees and shrubs, 1. alternate, penninerved, often 2 glands on petiole below insertion of blade. Fl. monoecious, apetalous in terminal simple or panicled spikes or racemes, $ several or many, 5 solitary in the axil of the bract, a pair of large glands at the base of each bract, disk 0. $ : Calyx 2~3-toothed or -lobed, stamens 2-3, filaments free, anther-cells contiguous, parallel, pistil- lode 0. 5: Calyx 3-fid, ovary 2-3-celled, styles free or connate below, tan- divided, 1 ovule in each cell. Capsule loculicidally Fig. 183.—Sapiiim insigne, Bentli. J. A. Spikes androgynous, the $ £. usually in the lower portion. 1. S. toaccatum, Boxb.; Wight Ic. t. 1950, called S. poptiUfoImm on plate; Bxcmca^^ia haccata, Muell. Arg.; Carumhium baccatum, Kmtz F. F1. ii. 412. Yerii. Billa, Silliet; AwU, tipper, Leiun, Lower Burma. Sikkim, foot of the hills and outer valleys. Assam. Khasi Mils. Ohittagong. Burma, usually in evergreen forest. The young shoots, which come out in April, are orange-red. A middle-sized, at times a large glabrous evergreen tree, 1. ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, glaucous beneath, blade 3-7, pet. l-d in. Eacemes spiciform, usually ai-ranged in large terminal panicles, bracts, broadly-ovate, acute, with a large gland at each side, 3 S fl. usually in one bract. Fl. minute, yellowish-white, stamens 2, anthers red, usually didymous. Drupe red or purple, J-J in. diam., edible. 2. S. sebiferum, Boxb. {Excoecaria sebifera, Muell. Arg.), the Chinese fallow tree, a native of China, cultivated in North-West India. Grlabrous, 1. rhomboid, entire, on long slender petioles, fl. in terminal spiciform racemes, ovary glabrous, narrowed into a style with 3 long, spreading stigmas. Seeds^ 3, attached to a c
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