316 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) — [Glochidion. 
stout. G. coriaceum, Thwaites Enum. 285 (in part). Phyllanthus pycno- 
carpus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 304. 
CEYLON; Central Province, Gardner, Thwaites (No. 2560). 
A small tree; branchlets rather stout, angular, Leaves dark brown when dry, 
often falcate, rarely greenish above; nerves 8-10 pair, slender, spreading, and hardly 
raised beneath; petiole 1, in.; stipules small, triangular. Male pedicel jg in. 
(perhaps not fully lengthened) ; sepals oblong; connectives half as long as the cells. 
Fem. fl. coriaceous ; ovary not very distinct from the style-base. Capsules }-} in. 
diam., quite smooth.— Mueller distinguishes this from G. coriaceum by the much 
smaller less coriaceous and unequal-based leaves, as well as by the fem. calyx, whicb 
is cleft to the middle but not below it into ovate acute lobes. It is very closely indeed 
allied to G. Candolleanum, and may prove to be a var. of that plant. 
Var. elliptica ; leaves elliptic obtuse base narrowed into the petiole, capsule 3-5 in. 
diam.—Ceylon, Thwaites (No. 2560).— This is the supposed abnormal state of G. 
Jussieuianum alluded to by Thwaites (Enum. 286). 
26. G. arboreum, Wight Ic. t. 1907; branchlets and petioles finely 
pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. ovate-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate reticulately 
nerved beneath, male and fem. flowers very shortly pedicelled, male sepals 
oblong, anthers 3, connectives long subulate, fem. calyx tubular unequally 
6-toothed, style very stout columnar glabrous with the 4—6 ovarian cells at 
its very base, lobes 4-6 stout spreading obtuse, capsule large obscurely 4-6- 
lobed crowned with the stout long 4—6-lobed style. Beddome Forester 
Man. 193. Phyllanthus arboreus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 303. 
NILGHERRY and SHEVAGHERRY HILLS; at Chispauray and Nadorputta, Wight 
(Kew Distrib, 2579, 2580), Gardner. 
Branchlets rather slender, fuscously pubescent. Leaves rather thin, glabrous on 
both surfaces, base rounded or acute, pale or brown when dry ; nerves slender, raised, 
nervules strongly reticulated; petiole -} in.; stipules triangular. Male f. iin. 
diam., pedicel about as long; connectives 3 as long as the anther-cells. Fem. fi. 
larger, together with the exserted top of the style 4in. long; calyx rather swollen at 
the base, very coriaceous; ovary quite merged in the contracted base of the great 
style. Capsule 3 in. diam., not much depressed, quite glabrous. Seeds large, jin. 
long, trigonous, red, 
27. G. neilgherrense, Wight lc. v. ii. 29; glabrous or minutely 
hoary, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous often falcately elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate 
obtuse or obtusely acuminate, male fl. stoutly pedicelled, sepals linear- 
oblong, anthers 3, connectives long, fem. fl. few large subsessile, calyx tur- 
binate ünequally 3-4-toothed, style very stout shortly clavate truncate with 
4—6 large lobes and the 4—6 minute ovarian cells in its base, capsule sessieé 
much depressed 4—6-lobed crowned with the large short lobulate style. 
G. Perottetianum, Beddome Forester's Man.194. Lobocarpus Candolleanus, 
Wight § Arn. Prodr. 7; Muell. Arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. ii. 1254. Phyl 
lanthus neilgherrensis, Muell. Arg. in DC. l. e. 303. P. Perotettianus, 
Muell Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 69, and in DC. l. c. 307.— Wight Cat. 
944. 
Nrranrr Hiris; at Nadorputtab, &c., Wight (Kew Distrib. 2662) ; Conoor, &t» 
alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. 
A small tree, 12 ft. Leaves black when dry, or greenish above in fruit, 1-1} 
rarely 2 in. broad, base usually acute; nerves 6-10 pair, slender, cross-nervules 
faint or strong ; petiole }—} in., quite glabrous ; stipules triangular-lanceolate. Flowers 
of both sexes large for the genus; male fl. }-} in. diam., on pedicels as long; sepals 
linear-oblong, rather thick ; connectives as long as the anthers. Fem. fl. $ in. long 5 
calyx very coriaceous, puberulous, teeth obtuse very unequal ; style half exserted, 
lobes rather spreading into a 4-6 rayed crown. Capsules often as it were spicate os 
