Glochidion.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 



more or less pubescent or tomentose, leaves 4-8 in. coriaceous elliptic-oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely cuspidate base rounded or cordate, 

 male and fern. fl. in the same subsessile or peduncled clusters, sepals of both 

 sexes short, anthers 5-6, style very short stout conical 6-8-toothed dilated 

 into the globose 4-7-celled ovary, capsule shortly peduncled depressed 

 rarely quite spherical globose terete or obscurely 8-14-anerled or -lobed tipped 

 with the short conic style. Thwaiies Enum. 2S5 ; Beddome Forester' s Man. 

 192. G-. obliquum, Dene. Herb. Timor. 481 ; Miguel. I. c. i. ii. 377. Bradleia 

 zeylanica, Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 128, t. 109. B. obliqua, Spreng. Syst. iii. 19 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 7863 A to E. B. mollis, Wall. Cat. 7858 (not 7859). Phyl- 

 lanthus zeylanicus & obliquus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 281 and 

 284 Agyneia obliqua, Willd. 810. PI. iv. 696; Wall. Cat. 7863 C, D. A. 

 flexuosa, Herb. Heyne. Wall. Cat. 7856. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA from the Concan and the Circars southwards. ASSAM, 

 SFLHET and the MALAY PENINSULA, southwards to Malacca and Singapore, 

 Maingay, &c. (Kew Distrib. 1357). CfiYLON; in the central and southern parts of 

 the island. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A small tree ; branchlets rather stout. Leaves drying green or brown, sometimes 

 shining above, base often very unequal-sided ; nerves 914 pairs, strong beneath ; 

 petiole stout, | in. ; stipules subulate or falcately-lanceolate. Flotvers in axillary 

 clusters or on short stout axillary or supra -axillary peduncles, females often most 

 numerous in the clusters. Capsule ^-f in. diam. or rather more, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent ; epicarp often deciduous in narrow elliptic-lanceolate valves. A very variable 

 plant, to which 1 think the following are referable. 



G. BAACANUM, Miqruel FL Ind. Bat. Suppl. 449 (Kurz For. Fl. ii. 347) ; 

 branches and leaves beneath densely rusty tomeutose, ovary and style tomentose. 

 Malacca, Andaman Islands, &c. 



G. NITIDUM, Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 235; MuelL Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 

 (1862) 60; Beddome Forester's Man. 192; quite glabrous, leaves shining above, 

 flower-clusters usually in supra-axillary peduncles. G. canaranum, Miquel Plant. 

 Hohenack. No. 743 a. G. canarum, *Beddome Forester's Man. 192. Phyllanthus 

 nitidus, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. 371, and in DC. I. c. 282. P. canaranus, 

 MuelL Arg. 1. c. 371, and in DC. I. c. 284. Bradleia nitida, Roxl. FL Ind. 

 iii. 699. The Concan, Canara, Mysore and t3ae Circars. I think this is only a per- 

 fectly glabrous state of zeylanicum. Wallich's Bradleia, No. 7856, from Silhet, with- 

 out fruit, is probably only a very large glabroiis form of this ; the flower peduncles 

 arise from above the leaf axils, 



12. Cr. liirsutum, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 61 ; branches petioles 

 and leaves beneath densely softly white- or rusty-tomentose, flower clusters 

 usually in supra-axillary peduncles. Bradleia hirsuta, Soscb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 699 ; Wall. Cat. 7861 B ; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euptori. 38. B. mollis, 

 Wall. Cat. 7859. Phyllanthus hirsutus, Muell. Arg. In Flora xlviii. 371, 

 and in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 283. 



The SIKKIM TERAI and ASSAM to CHITTAGONG and PENANO, Roxburgh. 



First described by Roxburgh from Calcutta Garden specimens said to have been 

 from Penang-, but WalKch says it is from China. Mueller must have seen imperfect 

 specimens, for the male pedicels are very slender and far longer than the petioles, and 

 the branches are far from " obscurely '* puberulous. Following Eoxburgh, he describes 

 the capsule as six-seeded, which is, I suspect, a lapsus for 6-celled. Baillon describes 

 the ovary as many-celled. Wallich has two plants called B. mollis, namely 7858, 

 which has leaves glabrous beneath, and is, I think, G. zeylanicum, and 7859, which has 

 narrower leaves pubescent beneath, and is G. hirsutum. 



13. G-. Helferi, Hoolc.f.-, quite glabrous except the flowers, leaves 

 4-6 in. ovate or oblong-lanceolate obtuse apiculate, nerves slender, male fl. 

 shortly pedicelled small, sepals broadly ovate, anthers 5, fern, numerous 



