Glochidton.'] EuphovbiacecB. 29 



umbellate clusters, fern, more numerous; sep. oblong- 

 roundish, obtuse; anth. 5 or 6; styles connate into a short 

 pointed cone; fr. | in., much depressed, very obscurely 

 lobed, tipped with short styles, glabrous, cocci 5-8, orange, 

 shining, epicarp usually deciduous. 



Var. j8, tomentosum, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 79. C. P. 3432. 



Branchlets, 1. beneath, and fruit finely tomentose. 



Moist low country, up to 2000 ft. ; common. Var. /S, Kukul and 

 Reigam Korales. Fl. Dec-April, July ; pale green. 

 Also in India and Malaya. 

 A very variable plant. 



\_G. litiorale, Bl. is given for Ceylon on the authority of Wight in Fl. 

 B. Ind. V. 308. I have been unable to find a specimen at Kew.] 



2. G. brachylobum, Muell. Arg. in Linncea, xxxii. 62 (1863). 

 G. coriaceum^ Thw. Enum. 285 (part). C. P. 3016. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 313. 



Small tree; bark whitish; young parts glabrous; 1. 3-5 in.» 

 ovate-oval, on short petioles, unequal at base, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, glabrous, coriaceous; stip. triangular, acute, stiff; fl. few, 

 male and fem. from same axils, fem. on very short ped. ; cal. 

 cup-shaped, with 4-6 shallow lobes longer in male ; anth. 4 

 (or 3) ; styles connate into a globose head ; fr. f in. or less, 

 depressed, obscurely 5-6-lobed, glabrous ; epicarp thick, not 

 deciduous. 



Moist region in lower montane zone ; rather rare. Ambagamuwa. 

 Fl. March. 

 Endemic. 



3. G-. pycnocarpum, Bedd. For. Man. 194 (1873?). 



G. coriaceum, Thw. Enum. 285 (part). Phyllanthus pycnocarpus^ 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. I.e. 304. C. P. 2529. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 315. 



Small tree; bark yellowish ; young parts glabrous; 1. 2\-i\ 

 in., on short petioles, unequal-sided, the larger side rounded 

 or subcordate at base, the smaller side acute, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, acute, glabrous ; fl. iow, male on slender ped., fem. 

 sessile, often solitary ; male fl. : — sep. 5, lanceolate, acute ; 

 anth. 3 ; fem. fl. : — cal.-segm. 5 or 6, as long as tube, acute ; 

 style very large and stout, twice as long as ov., and much 

 exserted, with 3 deep erect lobes ; fr. small, about \ |^in., 

 3-6-lobed, crowned with the very stout style, glabrous. 



Var. /3, elliptica, Hk. f. in Fl. B. hid. v. 316. C. P. 2560. 



