28 Euphorbiacece. \Giochidion. 



9. GZiOCKZDZON, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs; 1. rather large, numerous, distichous, with 

 stip. ; fl. moncEcious (rarely dioecious), apetalous, axillary, 

 usually in clusters; male fl.: — sep. 6 (rarely 5), imbricate; 

 stam. 3-8, connate; no disk; fem. fl. : — sep. 6 (rarely connate 

 into a cal.); no disk; ov. 3-15-celled, styles connate into a 

 globose, conical, clavate or columnar erect body, which in- 

 creases in size after fertilisation, ovules 2 in each cell; fr. 

 depressed-globose, crowned by the enlarged style, 3- or 

 6-lobed, with two seeds in each coriaceous or crustaceous 

 coccus; seeds hemispheric or laterally compressed, testa 

 crustaceous with often a succulent coat, endosperm fleshy, 

 cotyledons flat. — Sp. 120; 57 in FL B. Ind. 



Stam. 5 or 6 



Stam. 4 (rarely 3) ; styles globose 

 Stam. 3 ; styles elongated. 



Cal. of fem. with 5 or 6 segm. . 

 Cal. of fem. of 6 distinct sep. 

 Styles not twice as long as sep. 

 Styles twice as long as sep., or longer. 

 Ped. and cal. glabrous. 

 L. obtuse, coriaceous 

 L. acute, narrowly lanceolate . 

 Ped. and cal. hairy. 



L. glabrous .... 

 L. hairy beneath. 

 Capsule glabrous or nearly . 

 Capsule pubescent 



In the ' Genera Plantarum ' and in Muell. Arg.'s monograph, this is 

 reduced to a section of Phyllanihus, and in my ' Cat. Ceyl. PI.' I followed 

 these authorities in so treating it. In ' Fl. B. Ind.,' Sir J. Hooker has 

 restored it to rank as a genus on very good grounds. 



A characteristic genus of our wet forests; all the species but one are 

 €ndemic. 



I. G-. zeylanicum, A.Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 107 (1824). Kunu- 

 kirilla, .S. 



Bradleia seylanica, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 128. Thw. Enum. 285. C. P. 

 2149. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 310. Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 109 (fruit only). 



Tree; bark rather smooth, brownish-grey; young parts 

 glabrous; 1. rather large, 4-6 in., oval-oblong, sometimes 

 rather unequal-sided, rounded or slightly subcordate at base, 

 obtuse, glabrous on both sides, rather thick, bright apple- 

 green, paler beneath; petiole very short; stip. triangular, very 

 acute, recurved ; fl. shortly stalked, male and fem. together in 



