Gelonium. dioecia icosandria. 831 



Note. This is nearly allied to Goeitner's Gelonium cupa. 

 noides-f ami I conjecture they must belong to one family. 

 My Suragada f/labra^ now Gelonium Jasciatlatum, must, 

 no doubt, be referred to the same genus. 



2. G. lanceolatum. Willd, iv. 832. 



Lanccolar, entire. Floicers crowded, but distinct. Sta- 

 mina numerous. Capsulea 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. Male flowers 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 ov^xte. Pistillum none. 

 Female flowers short-pedicelled, crowded, opposite to the 

 insertions of the leaves, small, of a greenish yellow. Calyx 

 five-leaved. Corol none. JVectary, a yellow, five-lobcd, 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, 

 AAhen ripe yellow, tricoccous. Seeds solitary, enveloped in a 

 Avhite, fetid aril. The other parts almost exactly as in the Eu- 

 phorbifP, viz. a fleshy perisperm and inverted embryo. 



