Gelontum.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 459 
parallel, introrse. Pistillode 0. Frm. FL. Sepals 5-6, narrower than in 
the males, imbricate. Disk cupular: rarely enlarged and bearing stami- 
nodes. Ovary 2-4-celled; styles minute, reniform, semi-lunate or 2-fid, 
depressed; cells l-ovuled. Fruit globose, 3-4-gonous or 2-4-lobed, fleshy 
coriaceous or crustaceous, tardily dehiscent. Seeds subglobose, arillate, 
testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 15, 
Tropical Asian and African. 
l. G. multifiorum, 4. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. ii. t. 10. f. 31 A; 
leaves 3—7 in. oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, male 
fl. 4 in. diam., stamens 40-60, fruit 1-3 in. diam. globose obscurely 3-lobed, 
pericarp very thick fleshy. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1127; Kurz 
For. Fl.ii. 409. G. fasciculatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 832 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 3231.  Suregada glabra, Roxb. mss. S. multiflora, Baill. Etudes 
Gen. Euphorb. 396. S. bilocularis, Wall. Cat. 7981 B (in part), C. Rot- 
hera fasciculata & congesta, Herb. Ham.— Wall. Cat. 7980 B (one sheet) and 
2. 
BENGAL and the Crrcars, Roxburgh, and northward to the foot of SIEKIM 
Himataya. J.D. H. From CHITTAGONG to TENASSERIM and MALACCA, UPPER 
and L wer Burma.—Disrris. Siam, China, Malay Islands. 
A tree, 30-40 ft, quite glabrous. Leaves bright green, coriaceous, narrowed 
at the acute base; petiole very short. Flowers sometimes subracemose, yellow, 
odorous, males in clusters or peduncled cymes; receptacle glandular. Stules short, 
papillose, obcordate or 2-cleft with the arms 2-fid. Fruit rough, with a very 
thick pericarp enclosing 3 crustaceous 2-valved cocci. Seeds 4 in. diam., sub- 
globose, testa with broad shallow pits.—The minute styles are very variable, usually 
obcordate, but sometimes with short subulate papillose arms. Ina cultivated specimen 
(Hort. Liverpool) the fem. disk is greatly enlarged and pitted and bearing a few 
slender filaments. This and the two following species are mixed in Wallich’s 
Herbarium, where his 7981 A is G. bifarium ; B consists of multiflorum (Rottlera 
Sasciculata and congesta, Herb. Ham.), together with G. lanceolatum and bifarium 
(Rottlera lanceolata and bifaria, Herb. Ham.) ; C is multiflorum. 
2. G. lanceolatum, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 832; leaves 3-5 in. from 
obovate-oblong to elliptic elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse acute or 
acuminate entire or more or less acutely serrate, male fl. 1-1 in. diam., stamens 
20-40, capsule 1-1 in. diam. 3-lobed, cocci keeled. Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1127; Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 831; Wight Ic. t. 1867; Wall. Cat. 
(983 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 214 (excl. syn.); Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 
Xxix.; Thwaites Enum. 274 (excl. syn). G. bifarium, Herb. Wight. G. 
angustifolium, Muell. l. c.1128. Suregada angustifolia, Baill. Etudes Gen. 
Euphorb. 396. 
The Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne; Naggur Hills, Wight; Cochin, Johnson, 
EYLON; common, ascending to 4000 ft. . 
A small evergreen tree. Leaves extremely variable, usually much smaller than in 
G. multiflorum, and more often serrated, sometimes spinulosely so. Flowers smaller, 
Sometimes in short racemes of which the rachis is covered with imbricating bracteoles. 
Capsules rough; cocci crustaceous. Seeds globose, à-1 in. diam., testa with large 
shallow pits.— Roxburgh, I think, describes under this the fruit of G. multiflorum. 
e varieties proposed by Mueller (elliptica, lanceolata and spathulata) all run into 
one another, The specific name is not very appropriate, truly lanceolate leaves being 
sxceptional. Thwaites, under this species, says that he is disposed to refer all the 
ndian species to varieties of one. 
3. G. bifarium, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 830; leaves 5-6 in. elliptic-oblong 
or -lanceolate acute or acuminate, male fl. j-À in. diam. in sessile fascicles, 
