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3. CleisUnthus coUinus (Roxb.) Benth., Gen. PI. 3: 268. 1880. (Fig. 193).
EUPHORBIACEAE
Bridelia collina Hook, and Arn.—Amanca collina Baill.—Lebidieropsis collina Muell. Arg.—
Lebidieropsis lobicularis Mueil. Arg.—Chuytia collina Roxb.—Andrachne orbiculata Roth.
Sinh. Madara; Tarn. Nilaippalai, Odaichi, Odan, Odishi, Odu, Odugu, Oduppai,
Oduvan; Hindi Garari. Garrar; Sans. Indrayava, Kaudigam, Kutaja, Nandi.
A small tree with a corky, pustulate, reddish-grey bark and stout spreading branches;
leaves simple, alternate, few, rather large, 5—10.5 cm long, 3.2—6.5 cm broad, broadly
oblong—oval, shortly petioled, very obtuse or rounded at apex, glabrous, rather pale beneath;
venation reticulate; flowers yellowish, unisexual, monoecious or dioecious, very shortly
stalked in axillary clusters, male flowers about 10 mm across; sepals 5, 3.5 mm long, 1.5 mm
broad, lanceolate, valvate, thick, hairy outside; petals 5, minute, 0.5 mm long, subulate, disc
broad, circular; stamens 5, filaments connate, half way up in a column and then diverging,
pistillode small, conical, trifid terminating the column; female Rowers 1.2—1.4 cm
across; sepals 5, valvate, 6.5—7 mm long, 2.5—3 mm broad, lanceolate, hairy outside; petals
minute, I mm long, subulate; ovary superior, 3.5 mm tall, glabrous and shining, 3-locular with
two ovules in each chamber, styles 3, bifid; fruit large, 1.8—2.2 cm long, depressed globose,
very distinctly 3-lobed, smooth, shining woody and brown; seeds nearly globose, dark brown.
fig. 5.
Flowers in June and October.
Illustrations. Roxburgh, PI. Corom. pi. 169. 1798; Beddome, Forrester's Man. pi. 23,
Distribution. Occurs in India and Ceylon. It is very rare in Ceylon, found in the iowcountry
in Sabaragamuwa Province.
India. Pen. Ind. Or., Herb. Wight 2605, Kew Distribution 1866—8. Ceylon. Sabaragamuwa
Prov., Bintenne, Thwaites CP. 2163.
Uses. This is a poisonous plant. An extract of the leaves is a violent gastro-intestinal
irritant. The bark and fruits are employed as a fish poison. The bark is useful as an application
on cutaneous diseases. The flowers are used for various medicinal purposes.
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