Gelonium. DIOECIA ICOSANDRIA, 831 
Note. This is nearly allied to Gertner’s Gelonium cupa- 
noides, and I conjecture they must belong to one family. 
My Suragada glabra, now Gelonium fasciculatum, must, 
no doubt, be referred to the same genus, 
2. G. lanceolatum. Willd. iv. 832. 
Lanceolar, entire. Flowers crowded, but distinct. Sta- 
mina numerous. Capsules tricoccous, — 
A native of Bengal, where it grows to the size of a small, 
very ramous tree, It flowers during the hot season, in 
April and May chiefly, The seed ripens in the cool season. 
Trunk straight to the top of the tree. Branches numer- 
ous down to the ground, diverging. Branchlets alternate, 
bifarious. Bark of the old, woody parts, ash-coloured, of 
the young shoots smooth, and green. Leaves alternate, bifa- 
rious, very short-petioled, lanceolar, obtuse, entire, though in 
young luxuriant plants they are sometimes serrate near the 
apex, of a firm texture, and polished on both sides; from 
one to six inches long, and about one-third as much in breadth. 
Stipules very short, reniform, resinous; when they fall a 
strong mark like an articulation is left. Mate rLowers pe- 
dicelled, many together, but distinct, leaf-opposed, small, ; 
yellow, delightfully fragrant. Calyx of five, unequal, oval, 
concave, sub-ciliate leaflets. Corol none. Filaments numer- 
ous, longer than the calyx, inserted on a hemispheric recep- 
tacle, their insertions intermixed with numerous yellow 
glands, with ragged apices. Anthers ovate. Pistillum none. 
FEMALE FLOWERS short-pedicelled, crowded, opposite to the 
insertions of the leaves, small, of a greenish yellow. Calyx 
five-leaved. Corolnone. Nectary, a yellow, five-lobed, mem- 
branous ring round the base of the germ. Germ round, three- _ 
celled, with one ovulum in each cell, attached to the top of 
the axis, Style none, Stigmas three, recurvate, bifid, and 
ragged. Capsule the size of a small cherry, rather fleshy, 
when ripe yellow, tricoccous. Seeds solitary, enveloped in a 
white, fetid aril. The other parts almost exactly as in the Lu- 
phorbie, viz, a fleshy perisperm and inverted embryo. 
