GlochidionJ} cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^:, (J. D. Hooker.) 309 



obscure nervules, base decurrent on the stout petiole which is -f in. long; stipules 

 triangular, acuminate. Male fl. ^ in. diara. and less; pedicels in. and under; 

 sepals linear-oblong ; connectives long, acute. Fem.fl. much smaller ; sepals unequal, 

 rigid, lanceolate, acute ; style shortly exserted. Capsules f-f in. diam., pale. Seeds 

 often persistent on the axis. The monstrous flowers mentioned by Mueller are males 

 on long stout pedicels thickened upwards into a solid turbinate body crowned with six 

 obtuse hardened perianth-lobes, within this is a conical styliform body to the face of 

 which abortive anthers are adnate. Similar monstrous flowers occur in P. sphcerogy- 

 num and others. 



5. G-. calocarpum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 343 ; quite glabrous, branch lets 

 stout, leaves 4-7 in. subcoriaceous from broadly obliquely ovate or oblong 

 to lanceolate acute or acuminate, base very unequal, flowers all pedicelled, 

 male sepals linear-oblong recurved, anthers 4r-6, fern, sepals 5 ovate acute, 

 ovary 4-5-celled glabrous narrowed into the conical shortly exserted 5- 

 toothed style, capsule orbicular much depressed 8-10-lobed glabrous, with a 

 long strong style in the smaller top. 



ANDAMAN ISLANDS, in the beach forests, and NICOBAE, ISLANDS, Kurz. 



A small evergreen tree, 20-25 ft. Leaves very broad, dark brown when dry, base 

 acute or rounded; nerves 6-8 pair; petiole in., very stout; stipules triangular, 

 cuspidate. Malejl. on stout sometimes very short pedicels, in., % in. diam. Fern, 

 fl. few in a cluster, on rather shorter stouter pedicels.. Capsules about % in. diam., 

 purple. I have seen only Nicobar specimens. 



6. Cr. goniocarpum, Hook f. glabrous except the flowers and 

 fruit, leaves 4-5 in. coriaceous elliptic-oblong acuminate or acute base un- 

 equal acute, flowers sometimes clustered on a short peduncle all (male 

 shortly) pedicelled, outer sepals hispid inner smaller glabrous, anthers 5, 

 fern. fl. stoutly pedicelled, sepals broadly ovate obtuse hispid, style stout 

 short couico-columnar pubescent 3-6 cleft base narrower than the globose 

 villous 5-6- celled ovary, capsule subglobose pubescent 5-lobed, lobes keeled, 

 style columnar on the flat or depressed apex. 



SlNGAPOBE ; King's Collector. 



A tree, 20-30 ft. ; branchlets rather stout, slightly angled. Leaves rigid when 

 dry, pale greenish above with the nerves distinct, brown beneath with raised slender 

 nerves and faint cross-nervules ; petiole - in.; stipules triangular-ovate. Malejl. 

 in diam. ; outer sepals broadly oblong, inner more spathulate, connectives 

 short. Fem.fl. in stout pubescent pedicels, $- in. ; perianth coriaceous, pearly $ in. 

 diam. Capsules % in. diam. and less, base not intruded. 



7. Gr. tomentosum, Dalzell in Hook. Journ. Sot. iii. (1853) 38 ; 

 branches leaves beneath and flowers finely white tomentose, leaves 3-6 in. 

 elliptic- or ovate-oblong pale bluish grey beneath, base acute rounded or 

 cordate, flowers all on short stout decurved pedicels, sepals of both sexes 

 unequal broad tomentose or the inner glabrous, anthers 5-7, style stout 

 conical tip 4-5-cleft dilated into the 4-5-celled tomentose or glabrate ovary, 

 capsule much depressed obscurely 10-12-lobed pubescent, style minute 

 conical. Beddome Forester's Man. 192. Pbyllanthus tomentosus, Muell. 

 Arg. in Flora xlviii. (1865) 371, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 283. 



NORTH CANARA, Metz, Stocks, &c. 



Dalzell describes this as a small strict shrub 3-4 ft. high with flexuous branches, 

 leaves 2-4 by 1-1J in., and 4 irregular female sepals toothed or lacerate at the tip ; 

 he gives no description of the fruit. This latter I appear to have in specimens sent to 

 Kew both by Dr. Stocks and Mr. W. A. Talbot, but as these specimens difter somewhat 

 from Mr. Dalzell's, I shall give their individual characters. 



