316 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Glochidion. 



stout. G. coriaceum, Thwaites Enuni. 285 (in part}. Phyllanthus pycno- 

 carpus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 304. 



. CEYLON; Central Province, Gardner, Thwaites (No. 2560). 



A small tree ; branchlets rather stout, angular. Leaves dark brown when dry, 

 often falcate, rarely greenish above ; nerves 8-10 pair, slender, spreading, and hardly 

 raised beneath ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules small, triangular. Male pedicel T \j hi. 

 (perhaps not fully lengthened) ; sepals oblong; connectives half as long as the cells. 

 Fern. fl. coriaceous ; ovary not very distinct from the style-base. Capsules $-$ in. 

 diam., quite smooth. Mueller distinguishes this from G. coriaceum by the much 

 smaller less coriaceous and unequal-based leaves, as well as by the fern, calyx, which 

 is cleft to the middle but not below it into ovate acute lobes. It is very closely indeed 

 allied to G. Candolleanum, and may prove to be a var. of that plant. 



Var. elliptica ; leaves elliptic obtuse base narrowed into the petiole, capsule |-| in. 

 diam. Ceylon, Thwaites (No. 2560). This is the supposed abnormal state of G. 

 Jussieiiianum alluded to by Thwaites (Enum. 286). 



26. G-. arboreum, Wight Ic. t. 1907 ; branchlets and petioles finely 

 pubescent, leaves 4-6 in. ovate-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate reticulately 

 nerved beneath, male and fern, flowers very shortly pedicelled, male sepals 

 oblong, anthers 3, connectives long subulate, fern, calyx tubular unequally 

 6-toothed, style very stout columnar glabrous with the 4-6 ovarian cells at 

 its very base, lobes 4-6 stout spreading obtuse, capsule large obscurely 4-6- 

 lobed crowned with the stout long 4-6-lobed style. JBeddome forester's 

 Man. 193. Phyllanthus arboreus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 303. 



NILGHEEEY and SHEVAGHEEBY HILLS ; at Chispauray and Nadorputta, Wight 

 (Kew Distrib. 2579, 2580), Gardner. 



JBranchlets rather slender, fuscously pubescent. Leaves rather thin, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, base rounded or acute, pale or brown when dry ; nerves slender, raised, 

 nervules strongly reticulated; petiole T %-| in.; stipules triangular. Male fl. ^ in. 

 diam., pedicel about as long ; connectives ^ as long as the anther-cells. Fern. ji. 

 larger, together with the exserted top of the style % in. long ; calyx rather swollen at 

 the base, very coriaceous ; ovary quite merged in the contracted base of the great 

 style. Capsule in. diam., not much depressed, quite glabrous. Seeds large, 3 in. 

 long, trigonous, red. 



27. G-. neilg-herrense, Wight Ic. v. ii. 29 ; glabrous or minutely 

 hoary, leaves 3-5 in. coriaceous often falcately elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, male fl. stoutly pedicelled, sepals linear- 

 oblong, anthers 3, connectives long, fern. fl. few large subsessile, calyx tur- 

 binate unequally 3-4-toothed, style very stout shortly clavate truncate with 

 -46 large lobes and the 4-6 minute ovarian cells in its base, capsule sessile 

 much, depressed 4-6-lobed crowned with the large short lobulate style. 

 G. Perottetianum, JBeddome forester's Man. 194. Lobocarpus Candolleanus, 

 Wight fy Arn. Prodr. 7 ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1254. Phyl- 

 lanthus neilgherreusis. Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 303. P. Perotettianus, 

 Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 69, and in DC. 1. c. 307. Wight Cat. 

 944. 



XTT.GHIEI HILLS; atNadorputtah, &c., Wight (Kew Distrib. 2662); Conoor, &c., 

 alt. 7000 ft., Clarke. 



A small tree, 12 ft. Leaves black when dry, or greenish above in fruit, 1-1^ 

 rarely 2 in. broad, base usually acute ; nerves 6-10 pair, slender, cross-nervules 

 faint or strong ; petiole |-| in., quite glabrous ; stipules triangular-lanceolate. Floivers 

 of both sexes large for the genus; male fl. ^\ in. diam., on pedicels as long ; sepals 

 linear-oblong, rather thick ; connectives as long as the anthers. Fem.fl. in. long; 

 calyx very coriaceous, puberulous, teeth obtuse very unequal ; style half exserted, 

 lobes rather spreading into a 4-6 rayed crown. Capsules often as it were spicate on 



