Guocupion.]  EUPHORBIACES. 89 
flowers : Sepals 6, rarely 5, spreading, in 2 series, imbricate. Stamens 
connate in an ellipsoid or oblong sessile column ; anthers 3-8 (or 
more), cells linear, bursting outwards, connectives produced as 
free points or connate in an umbonate head. Pistillode none or 
rarely minute. FrMmaLe-flowers : Calyx usually of 6 short imbricate 
sepals, or shortly tubular and unequally toothed or cleft. Ovary 
3-15-celled ; styles connate in a globose conic or subclavate column 
lobed or toothed at the tip, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a capsule 
of three or more 2-valved cocci, often with twice as many lobes 
as cells, globose or orbicular and depressed or intruded at the base 
and apex, crowned by the enlarged style ; cocci coriaceous or crusta- 
ceous, the epicarp separable or not. Seeds hemispherical or laterally 
compressed, testa crustaceous and with often a succulent coat; 
albumen copious, fleshy, cotyledons flat.—Species 135, in Asia 
and Polynesia. 
Anthers 4 or more ; leaves glabrous beneath :— 
Pedicels of male flowers stout, about } in. 
long ; leaves glaucously purplish beneath J. G. multiloculare. 
Pedicels of male flowers filiform, 4-? in. long ; / 
leaves pale-green beneath é ‘ . 2. G. lanceolarium., 
Anthers 3 ; leaves softly tomentose beneath . 3. G. velutinum. 
1. G. multiloculare, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calc. 152; F. B. I. v, 
307 ; Gamble Man. 601; Prain Beng. Pl. 930; Brandis Ind. Trees, 
572. Bradleia multilocularis, Spreng.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 696. 
An evergreen shrub or small tree with usually drooping branches, 
branchlets angular, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves thinly coria- 
ceous, purplish-brown, 3-5 in. long, oblong, linear-oblong or obovate, 
obtuse or subacute, apiculate, lower surface glaucous ; main lateral 
nerves 5-8 pairs and with many prominent transverse veins between ; 
petioles stout, ~; in. long, stipules triangular-ovate, cuspidate. 
MALE-flowers small; pedicels stout, } in. long. Perianth 4 in. in 
diam. Sepals oblong. Anthers 4-12, adnate to the middle, connec- 
tives very short. Ferm.-flowers } in. in diam., stoutly pedicelled. 
Ovary 10-15-celled ; style low, slightly furrowed. Capsule orbicular, 
j-1 in. in diam. ; epicarp thin, reddish, separating from the coria- 
ceous cocci. Seeds persistent on the axis, furnished with a fleshy 
orange-red coat. 
