Glochidion.'] cxxx^. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 307 



Ovary 3-S-celled ; style cylindric linear or subclavate. Sp. 8-10. 



ft Capsule globose or depressed, terete or very obscurely lobed or angled, not 

 deeply intruded at the base and apex. Sp. 11-15. 



** Female calyx 4-6-lobed or -toothed, usually unequallv. Style globose, small. 

 Sp. 16-19. 



B. Anthers 3, rarely 4 or 5 in 28. olscurum, and 38. assamicum, and 55. villicaule 

 (see also \Q.fagifolium and 17. brachylobum). 



* Female calyx unequally 4-6-lobed or toothed. Capsule in all depressed-globose, 

 lobed, and intruded at the crown. 



f Style in the flower globose. Sp. 20-24. 



ft Style cylindric conical or clavate. Sp. 25-27. 



** Female calyx of 6 free sepals. 



f Cap?ule globose or depressed-globose, faintly angled or lobed, not deeply intruded 

 at base and apex. Sp. 28, 29. 



ff Capsule depressed globose, deeply lobed, intruded at the base and apex. 



Style in flower globose or broadly conic, broader than the ovary (doubtful in 32. 

 desmocarpum) . Sp. 3033. 



Style in flower very minute. Sp. 34-36. 



Style in flower short, columnar or clavate, not much exceeding the sepals. 



Tf Leaves usually quite glabrous. Sp. 37-43. 



^[ Leaves usually pubescent or tomentose beneath. Sp. 44-47. 



Style in flower greatly exceeding the sepals. Sp. 48-55. 



Sect. IT. GLOCHIDIOPSIS. Styles^, filiform. Female sepals very unequal, 2 very 

 much the largest. Sp. 56-58. 



1. Cr. multiloculare, MuelL Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 59 ; glabrous or 

 puberulous, leaves 3-5 in. oblong linear-oblong or obovate glaucously pur- 

 plish beneath, nerves strong, male fl. small shortly pedicelled, anthers 4-12, 

 fern. fl. large stoutly pedicelled, sepals 8-12 broad spreading and revolute, 

 style a flattened glabrous cone with a hollowed top crowning the depressed 

 10-15-celled glabrous or villous ovary, capsule very large depressed 10-15- 

 lobed. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 343. Pbyllanthus multilocularis, MuelL Arg. in 

 Flora (1865) 370, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 279. Bradleia multilocularis, 

 Spreng. Syst. iii. 19 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 696; Wall. Cat. 7864. B. pubera, 

 Roxb., Wall. Cat. 7870. B. nitida, Wall. Cat. 7867. B. philippinensis, Ham., 

 Wall. Cat. 7871 in part. Agyneia multilocularis, Willd. in Neue Schrift. 

 Gesselch. Naturf. Freund. iv. (1803) 206, and Sp. PL iv. 509. A. pubera, 

 Herb. Ma dr. 



The GA NOETIC PLAIN from OTTDH, N. Behar, and the Sikkim Terai, eastwards 

 to ASSAM, SILHET and UPPER BUKMA, and southwards to the CIECARS. 



An evergreen tree, with usually drooping branches and angular branchlets. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, often green or yellow above 

 when dry, beneath brown purplish or glaucous ; nerves 5-8 pair, and numerous 

 straight, cross-nervules raised beneath, and usually distinct also in the upper surface; 

 petiole -jL in., stout; stipules triangular-ovate, cuspidate. Male fl. ; pedicels stout, 

 4 in. ; perianth ^ in. diam. ; sepals oblong ; anthers adnate to the middle, connectives 

 very short. Fem.fl. stoutly pedicelled, in. diam. ; style low, broad, rayed with 

 slight furrows. Capsules orbicular, stoutly pedicelled, 2_i i n . diam., the sunk apex 

 occupied by a concave rayed adnate disk which is the remains of the style ; epicarp 

 thin reddish separating from the coriaceous cocci, which again usually fall away from 

 the compressed seeds that persist on the axis, and have a fleshy orange-red coat. 



