Glochidion.] ^ cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 
more or less pubescent or tomentose, leaves 4-8 in. coriaceous elliptie-oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely cuspidate base rounded or cordate, 
male and fem. fl. in the same subsessile or peduncled clasters, sepals of both 
sexes short, anthers 5-6, style very short stont conical 6-8-toothed dilated 
into the globose 4~7-celled ovary, capsule shortly peduncled depressed 
rarely quite spherical globose terete or obscurely 8-14-angled or -lobed tipped 
with the short conic style. Thwaites Enum. 285; Beddome Forester’s Man. 
192. G. obliquum, Dene. Herb. Timor. 481; Miquel. lL c. i. ii. 977. Bradleia 
zeylanica, Gertn. Fruct. ii. 198, t. 109. B. obliqua, Spreng. Syst. ii. 19; 
Wall. Cat. 7863 A to E. B. mollis, Wall. Cat. 7858 (not 7859). Phyl- 
lanthus zeylanicus & obliquus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 281 and 
2 Agyneia obliqua, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 696; Wall. Cat. 7863 C, D. A. 
flexuosa, Herb, Heyne.— Wall. Cat. 7856. 
The Deccan PENINSULA from the Concan and the Cirears southwards. — ASSAM, 
Sumer and the MALAY PENINSULA, southwards to Malacca and Singapore, 
Maingay, &c. (Kew Distrib. 1357 ). CEYLON; in the central and southern parts of 
the island —Disrrre. M alay Islands. . 
, å small tree; branchlets rather stout, Leaves drying green or brown, sometimes 
shining above, base often very unequal.sided ; nerves 9—14 pairs, strong beneath ; 
Petiole stout, 1—1 in. ; Stipules subulate or faleately-lanceolate. Flowers in axillary 
Clusters or on short stout axillary or supra-axillary peduncles, females often most 
numerous in the clusters, Capsule 1—3 in. diam. or rather more, glabrous or pubes- 
cent; epicarp often deciduous in narrow elliptic-lanceolate valves,—A very variable 
Plant, to which I think the following are referable. 2 lx 
G. BAACANUM, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 449 (Kurz For. Fl. ii. 347); 
branches and leaves beneath densely rusty tomentose, ovary and style tomentose, 
7Malacca, Andaman Islands, &c. mM . 
G. NITIDUM, Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 235; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 
(1862) 60; Beddome Forester’s Man. 192; quite glabrous, leaves shining above, 
flower-clusterg usually in supra-axillary peduncles. G. canaranum, Miguel Plant. 
‘ohenack. No. 743 a. G. canarum, Beddome Forester’s Man. 192. Phyllanthus 
müdus, Muell, Arg. in Flora xlvii. 371, and in DC. l. c. 282. P. canaranus, 
Muell, Arg. l. c. 971, and in DC. L c. 284. Bradleia nitida, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
fa. 699.— The Concan, Canara, Mysore and the Circars.—I think this is only a por- 
ectly glabrous state of zeylanicum. Wallich’s Bradleia, No. 7856, from Silhet, wit . 
out fruit, is probably only a very large glabrous form of this; the flower peduncles 
*rise from above the leaf axils. 
12. S. hirsutum, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 61; branches petioles 
and leaves beneath densely softly white- or rusty-tomentose, flower clusters 
usually in Supra-axillary peduncles. Bradleia hirsuta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 
099: Wall. Cat. 7861 B; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 638. B. mollis, 
all. Cat. 7859. Phyllanthus hirsutus, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. 371, 
and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 283. ^ 
The Stxxrm Treat and Assam to Currraoox and PENANG, Roxburgh. 5 
irst described by Roxburgh from Calcutta Garden specimens said to have een 
om Penang, but Wallich says it is from China. Mueller must have seen imper ect 
pecimens, for the male pedicels are very slender and far longer than the petio es, an 
t © branches are far from “ obscurely " puberulous. Following Roxburgh, he 1 eserit es 
* Capsule as six-seeded, which is, I suspect, a lapsus for 6-celled. Baillon TS os 
whi Ovary as many-celled. Wallich has two plants called B. mollis, name M 1859, 
na ‘ch has leaves glabrous beneath, and is, I think, @. zeylanicum, an 7859, which ha 
Trower leaves pubescent beneath, and is G. hirsutum. 
13. G. Helferi, Hook. f.; quite glabrous except the flowers, leaves 
56 m. ovate or oblong anoite obtuse apiculate, nerves slender, male fi. 
ortly pedicelled small, sepals broadly ovate, anthers 5, fem. numerous 
