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EUPHORBIACEAE
26. Se«urinega leucopyrus (Willd.) Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 (2): 451. (Fig. 216).
Fleuggea leucopyrus Willd.—Flueggea wallichiana Baill.—Cicca leucopyrus Kurz—Xylophylla
lucerna Roth
Sinh. Hin-katupila; Tarn. Irubulai, Mudbulanji, Mudpulanti, Mulluppulatti, Pula,
Putanji, Varadbul, Varadbula, Vedbula, Vellaippula, Vellaippulanji; Sans. Apiyadruma,
Bhurlphali, Panduphali, Svetakamboja.
A large bush with long straggling branches, twigs leafy, horizontal, divaricate, rigid,
usually ending in sharp spines, bark white or grey;-' leaves simple, small, alternate, distichous,
1.2—2.5 cm long, obovate, obcordate or rotundate on short petioles, entire, glabrous, glaucous
beneath; flowers minute, unisexual, apetalous, dioecious, green, pedicellate in axillary clusters,
females fewer than maies; male flowers: sepals 5, distinct,"obtuse, imbricate in bud, disc glands
5; stamens 5, much exscrted, distinct, anthers erect, pistillode large; female flowers: sepals same
as in the male, disc annular; ovary superior, 3-locular with two ovules in each loculus, styles
rather long, recurved, bifid; fruit a small globose berry, about 1.2 cm diameter, smooth, quite
white when ripe with 6 seeds.
Flowers in June and August.
Illustrations. Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Orient, pi. 1875. 1852; Herb. Peradeniya, drawing.
Distribution. Occurs in India, Ceylon and Burma. It is common in Ceylon in the dry
low-country.
India. Pen. Ind. Orient., Herb. Wight 2597, Kew Distribution 1866—68; Talbot 53,
April 1885. Ceylon. Thwaites CP. 2154. Northern Prov., Talaimannar, /. M. Silva, July 1916;
Vaddukoddai, Koshy, Nov. 1951. North Central Prov., Kekirawa, Herb.. Peradeniya, Aug.
1885; Central Prov., Hanguranketa, J. M. Silva, Oct. 1920. " -
Composition. The leaves contain an alkaloid.
Uses. The juice of the leaves is used to destroy maggots in sores.
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