88 EUPHORBIACEZ. — {CuEISTANTHUS. 
or the females shortly pedicelled. Matz flowers: Calyx-seg- 
ments 5, yalvate. Petals 5, short, scale-like, stalked or spathulate. 
Disk broad, entire or sinuate. Stamens 5; filaments connat 
below in a central column, bearing a pyramidal or 3-lobed pistil- 
lode,*free and spreading above ; anther-cells parallel. FxEm.-flowers : 
Calyx less deeply lobed than in the male, cupular under the ovary. 
Disk double, the inner conic or turbinate, more or less enclosing 
the young ovary. Ovary 3 (rarely 4) -celled, usually clothed with 
long hairs ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles 3, free, 2-fid. Fruit a 
sessile or stipitate subglebose or depressed capsule with three 2- 
valved cocci. Seeds without an aril or arillode ; albumen copious 
or scanty ; cotyledons thin or fleshy, often folded.—Species about 
30, in Tropical India, Malaya and Africa. 
C. collinus, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii, 268; F. B. I. v 274 ; Gamble 
Man. 597 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 561; Prain Beng. Pl. 928. Lebidi- 
oropsis orbicularis, Muwell-Arg. ; Brandis For. Fl. 450 ; Watt E. D. 
Cluytia collina, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. wii, 732. 
A small tree with a dark rough bark ; branches stiff, smooth or pustu- 
late. Leaves coriaceous, 14-4 in. long, orbicular broadly obovate or 
elliptic, rounded or retuse at the apex, glaucous beneath, pale when 
dry; main lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, very slender; petiole % in., 
slender. Flowers in small axillary and shortly spicate villous clus- 
ters. Calyx 1 in. in diam., ovate-lanceolate. Petals narrow, fleshy, 
incurved. Disk of male-flowers pulvinate ; of the females conical 
with a thick margin. Ovary globose, glabrous ; styles free, thick, 
stigmas lobed. Capsule sessile, rounded, 3 in. in diam., obscurely 
3-lobed, dark-brown, shining and wrinkled when dry. Seeds 3 in. 
in diam., globose, reddish-brown. 
Forests of Bundelkhand. Flowers in June, and the fruit ripens during 
the cold season. Duistris.; From the C. Provinces, Chota Nagpur 
and Circars to S. India and Ceylon. The hard and tough dark- 
coloured wood is much valued for posts and poles. The capsules, as 
well as the leaves and roots, are said to be very poisonous. 
5. GLOCHIDION, Forst.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 305. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, bifarious, shortly 
petioled, entire. Flowers small, in axillary clusters, monccious 
or diccious. Perianth simple. Petals none. Disk none. MaLE- 
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