GeIo7tiutn.'\ Eiiphorbiacece, 73 



bracts |-i in., acutely 3-lobed, serrate; fl. minute, subcapitate; 

 male fl. : — sep. ovate, acuminate ; anth. obl®ng ; fl. fem. : — 

 Sep. narrow, rigid, laciniate, segm, subulate with glandular 

 tips ; ov. pubescent, stigma sub 3-lobed ; capsule I in. diam., 

 pubescent, enclosed in the much longer cal. segm. 



Climbing over bushes and trees in the dry and intermediate country; 

 very rare. Gonagama on lower Badulla Road (Thwaites) ; Pallavaraya- 

 kaddu, Jafifna Dist. Fl. Feb., March. 



Also in S. India. 



The pendulous hop-like heads of flowers are very ornamental when 

 growing, and the compound gland-tipped hairs on the bracts of the 

 involucre very beautiful. It stings slightly. I have seen no petiolules 

 to the leaflets in Ceylon specimens. 



Omalmithus popidifolius, Grab., is given by Muell Arg. (1. c. 1144) for 

 Ceylon, on the authority of ' Dahl.' It is a Pacific and Malayan plant, 

 reaching as far west as Penang. I suspect Sapiiim sebiferum may have 

 been mistaken for it here. 



39. GZ:Z.ONZU»I, Roxb. 

 A tree ; 1. alt. with caducous connate stip. ; fl. small, dioe- 

 cious, apetalous, in axillary clusters; male fl. : — sep. 5, distinct, 

 imbricate ; stam. numerous, crowded on a convex receptacle, 

 fil. distinct; pistillode o; fem. fl. : — sep. 5-6, imbricate ; disk 

 membranous ; ov. 3-celled, with i ovule in each cell, styles 3, 

 bipartite; fr. small, tricoccous; seeds subglobose, testa crusta- 

 ceous, with a fleshy coat, endosperm fleshy, cotyledons broad. 

 — Sp. 15 ; 4 in /7. B. Ind. 



G. lanceolatum, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 832 (1805). Kakkalpalai, 

 Varittula, Potpattai, T. 



Suregada angustifolta, Baill. Et. Euphorb. 396. Thw. Enum. 274, 

 G. angiisiifolium, Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 1128. C. P. 2101, 252. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 459. Wight, Ic. t. 1S67. Bedd. For. Fl. t. xxii. f. 6. 



A tree, much branched ; bark grey, smooth, marked with 

 annular scars of stip.; young parts glabrous; 1. very variable, 

 usually about 2^-4 in., obovate-oval or obovate-lanceolate, 

 very acute at base, shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, but 

 sometimes much narrower, and the margin occasionally 

 spinous-serrate, rather thick, glabrous, and shining ; petiole 

 very short ; fl. in ped. clusters, sometimes in short racemes ; 

 male sep. membranous, rounded, very concave; capsule \ in., 

 glabrous, rough ; seeds \-\ in., testa with large shallow pits. 



Low country, chiefly in the moist region, and rarely extending up to 

 4000 ft. ; common. Fl. Dec. -April ; pale yellow. 



Also in S. India. . [ 



