Glochidion.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 321 
Branchlets rather slender, not flexuous, angled. Leaves rarely 2 in. broad, dark 
brown or black when dry; nerves 6-8 pairs, very slender, cross-nervules faint reti- 
culate; petiole 5-3 in., stipules triangular. Male pedicels slender, }-} in. ; sepals 
Jinear-oblong ; connectives rather long. Fem. pedicel 35-4 in., about as long as the 
flower, thickened upwards; style about twice as long as the perianth, tip contracted 
till the lobes spread. Capsule very variable in size, 1-l in. diam., rather deeply 
lobed.—I doubt this being the plant which Retz called P. stellatus, a name in no 
way applicable to this, but very much so to some other Ceylon species, in which the 
long styles spreading from the axils of the leaves have a stellate appearance. As 
Thwaites truly observes, Retz’s description is far too imperfect for even the approximate 
ideutification of his stellatus. Mueller unites a Sikkim plant of mine with this, but 
I do not recognize it. 
40. G. coriaceum, Thwaites Enum. 285; quite glabrous, leaves 2-4 in. 
coriaceous elliptic-oblong or almost orbicular obtuse nerves raised and reti- 
culate beneath, male fl. shortly pedicelled, anthers 3 connectives long, fem. 
sessile densely clustered, style cylindric stout glabrous top 3-lobed about 
twice as long as the oblong free sepals, base narrower than the globose 
glabrous 3-celled ovary, capsule depressed 6-lobed glabrous with the cylindric 
style in its sunken top. Beddome Forester’s Flor. 194. 
CEYLON; alt. 3-4000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 
Branchlets flexuous, rather stout, angled. Leaves usually of a rich red brown 
beneath when dry; nerves 4-5 pair, cross-nervules reticulated ; petiole very short ; 
stipules triangular. Male and fem. fl. generally in separate clusters; male pedicels 
of in. ; sepals coriaceous ; connectives nearly as long as the cells. Fem. fl. sepals 
free to the base, coriaceous; style often slightly curved. Capsule J in. diam., black 
when dry ; lobes 3, rounded, each slightly again lobed. 
4l. G. ellipticum, Wight Ic. t. 1906; everywhere quite glabrous or 
fem. fl. and fruit sparsely pubescent, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous elliptic- 
oblong or lanceolate acute or acuminate often unequal-sided base acute, male 
pedicels rather short, sepals linear-oblong, anthers 3, fem. fl. sessile capi- 
tately clustered. sepals oblong obtuse or subacute, style short stout conical 
glabrous 6-toothed narrower than the globose tomentose 4-6-celled ovary, 
capsule very shortly pedicelled depressed obscurely 4—6-lobed glabrous or 
puberulous. G. diversifolium, Beddome Forester’s Man. 193. Phyllanthus 
diversifolius, var. B. longifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. (1865) 378, and 
m DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 298. 
Sourn Concan, Law. MALABAR, Wight (Kew Distrib. 2576 and 2663). 
., A shrub; branchlets slender, angled. Leaves variable, sometimes very unequal- 
sided, narrowed into the short glabrous petiole; nerves slender, raised beneath, 
Cross-nervules very obscure; stipules triangular-hastate, often falcate. Male 
pedicels very slender, always glabrous, as are the flowers. Male fl. minute. black 
7 hen dry. Capsule } in. diam., pubescent in Wight’s figure, —Very near G. mala- 
baricum, if not a variety of that plant. I find no difference in the styles. G. ellip- 
ticum has broader stipules, shorter fem. sepals, longer connectives, and larger fruit. 
Var, Wightiana; leaves smaller 3 by $ in. caudate-acuminate, „stipules subu- 
late, P. diversifolia, var., and Wightiana, Muell. Arg. l. e. G. diversifolium, B. 
yg ghtiana, Beddome  Forester's Man. 193. Bradieia Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 
42. G. . 4n Linnea xxxiv. 65; branchlets 
glaucifolium, Muell. Arg. in Lt VASE in. elliptic or elliptie- 
very slender and leaves quite glabrous, leaves 23— 
9vate or -oblong acuminate base very unequal, petiole slender, flower very 
punute, male shortly pedicelled glabrous, anthers 3, fem. subsessile, sepais 
hispid, style conical obtuse glabrous longer than the puberulous ovary, cap- 
Sule depressed turbinate 3—4-angled glabrous crown flat. K 2 For. FI. 
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