Glochidion.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 313 



NILGHIKI HILLS, Metz. (CHITTAGONG ?), PEGU and TENASSERIM, Kurz, 

 Heifer (Kew Distrib. 4862). 



Branchlets very smooth, angular and grooved. Leaves greenish or brown when 

 dry, polished, base very acute and decurrent on the petiole ; nerves 6-8 pair, distinct 

 on the upper surface, raised on the lower ; peti ole y-Q-i in. ; stipules triangular. 

 Male fl. i in. diam., pedicels \ in. or less, glabrous or puberulous ; sepals obovate; 

 connectives acute. Fern. fl. very much smaller, shortly stoutly pedicelled ; sepals 

 minute, very broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, margins translucent ; style exserted, 

 larger than all the rest of the flower, glabrous, tumid, ovarian cells hidden under the 

 style, I have seen no capsule, which Kurz describes (from Tenasserim x specimens) 

 as smooth and 3-4-coccous. 1 have described this, which is Mueller's var. concolor, 

 from Metz and Hohenacker's specimens. I cannot identify any of my Chittagong 

 plants with it, as Mueller does ; nor have I seen his var. ccesius from the Nilgherries, 

 for which he gives no further distinctive character than that the branchlets are 

 " superne intense ca3siis," and leaves paler above. 



17. Cr. brachylobum, Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxii. 62 ; robust, quite 

 glabrous, leaves 4-6 in. thickly coriaceous oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse or 

 obtusely acuminate, nerves few faint, flowers all shortly pedicelled, anthers 

 3-4, fern. fl. very shortly pedicelled, calyx cupular unequally 4-6-lobed, 

 ovary obovoidly globose 4-8-lobed with 4-8 basal cells quite glabrous, cap- 

 sule depressed-globose obscurely 3-5-lobed with a very large globose style. 

 Beddome Forester's Man. 192. G. coriaceum, Thwaites Enum. 285 in part. 

 Phyllanthus brachylobus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 288. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 3-4000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 3016). 



Branchlets woody, bark very pale. Leaves the thickest of any Indian species, 

 green or brown above, brown beneath, base acute or rounded ; nerves 3-5 pair, very 

 faint, nervules 0; petiole long for the genus, \-\ in., very stout j stipules triangular- 

 lanceolate. Flowers few in a cluster, very coriaceous, male and fern, together. 

 Male pedicel not much longer than the perianth (perhaps not evolute); sepals oblong, 

 very coriaceous ; connectives as long as the cells. Fern. fl. with spreading rounded 

 calyx-lobes. Capsule % in. diam., pericarp thick, red-brown when dry. 



18. G-. macrostigrna, Hook. f. ; glabrous, branches slender, leaves 

 elliptic- oblong subacute thin very glaucous beneath, male fl. shortly pedi- 

 celled, sepals quite glabrous oblong, anthers 5, fern. fl. shortly pedicelled 

 minute, calyx 6-lobed pubescent, style very large globose 5-6-cleft suddenly 

 contracted into a very short pubescent base which is narrower than the 

 5-6-celled globose nearly glabrous ovary. 



PENANG ; at Penara Bukit, Curtis. 



Branches elongate, terete, black when dry. Leaves 3-4 in., membranous, almost 

 black above when dry, beneath white, base usually very unequal, one side rounded the 

 other acute ; nerves 5-6 pairs, very slender, nervules hardly any ; petiole short, 

 slender; stipules minute, triangular. Male fl. generally fewer than the fern., in. 

 diam.; sepals subequal. Fern, pedicels short, slender, erect ; calyx-lobes triangular- 

 ovate, sparsely pubescent ; stigma exserted, much larger than the perianth, lobes 

 erect obtuse. Fruit unknown. A very remarkable species with a peculiar stigma, 

 not unlike that of the genus Megististigma (of this Order). The habit and foliage 

 are those of P. glaucifolius, Wall. 



19. Cr. sclerophyllum, Hook. /; branchlets robust and leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence rusty-torn entose or pubescent, leaves 3-6 in. 

 stiffly coriaceous broadly ovate or oblong acute or cuspidately acuminate 

 base broadly rounded or cordate, nerves very strong, flowers minute all 

 hispid and pedicelled, male sepals oblong, anthers 5, style subcylindric 3-4- 

 toothed hispid twice as long as the tubular obtusely irregularly toothed 

 calyx base narrower than the hispid or glabrous ovary, capsule pedicelled 



