GlocMdion.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 321 



Branchlets rather slender, not flexuous, angled. Leaves rarely 2 in. broad, dark 

 brown or black when dry ; nerves 6-8 pairs, very slender, cross-nervules faint reti- 

 culate; petiole YQ-^ in., stipules triangular. Male pedicels slender, - in. ; sepals 

 Jinear-oblong ; connectives rather long. Fern, pedicel -j^-| in., about as'long as the 

 flower, thickened upwards; style about twice as long as the perianth, tip contracted 

 till the lobes spread. Capsule very variable in size, ^ in. diam., rather deeply 

 lobed. I doubt this being the plant which Retz called P. stellatus, a name in no 

 way applicable to this, but very much so to Some other Ceylon species, in which the 

 long styles spreading from the axils of the leaves have a stellate appearance. As 

 Thwaitcs truly observes, B^tz's description is far too imperfect for even the approximate 

 identification of his stellatus. Mueller unites a Sikkim plant of mine with this, but 

 1 do not recognize it. 



40. Cr. coriaceum, Thwaites Fnum. 285 ; quite glabrous, leaves 2-4 in. 

 coriaceous elliptic-oblong or almost orbicular obtuse nerves raised and reti- 

 culate beneath, male fl. shortly pedicelled, anthers 3 connectives long, fern, 

 sessile densely clustered, style cylindric stout glabrous top 3-lobed about 

 twice as long as the oblong free sepals, base narrower than the globose 

 glabrous 3-celled ovary, capsule depressed 6-lobed glabrous with the cylindric 

 style in its. sunken top. Beddome ^Forester's Flor. 194. 



CEYLON ; alt. 3-4000 ft., Walker, Thwaites. 



Branchlets flexuous, rather stout, angled. Leaves usually of a rich red brown 

 beneath when dry; nerves 4-5 pair, cross-nervules reticulated; petiole very short ; 

 stipules triangular. Male and fern. fl. generally in separate clusters; male pedicels 

 j in.; sepals coriaceous; connectives nearly as long as the cells. Fern. fl. sepals 

 free to the base, coriaceous ; style often slightly curved. Capsule ^ in. diam., black 

 when dry : lobes 3, rounded, each slightly again lobed. 



41. Cr. ellipticum, Wight Ic. t. 1906; everywhere quite glabrous or 

 fern. fl. and fruit sparsely pubescent, leaves' 3-5 in. coriaceous elliptic- 

 oblong or lanceolate acute or acuminate often unequal-sided base acute, male 

 pedicels rather short, sepals linear-oblong, anthers 3, fern. fl. sessile capi- 

 tately clustered, sepals oblong obtuse or subacute, style short stout conical 

 glabrous 6-toothed narrower than the globose tomentose 4-6-celled ovary, 

 capsule very shortly pedicelled depressed obscurely 4-6-lobed glabrous or 

 puberulons. G. diversifolium, IBeddume Forester's Man. 193. Phyllanthus 

 diversifolius,'-yar. j3. longifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. (1865) 378, and 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 298. 



SOUTH CONCAN, Law. MALABAR, Wight (Keio Distril. 2576 and 2663). 



A shrub ; branchlets slender, angled. Leaves variable, sometimes very unequal- 

 sided, narrowed into the short glabrous petiole ; nerves slender, raised beneath, 

 cross-nervules very obscure ; stipules triangular-hastate, often falcate. Male 

 pedicels very slender, always glabrous, as are the flowers. Male fl. minute black 

 when dry. Capsule | in. diam., pubescent in Wight's figure. Very near G. mala- 

 baricum, if not a variety of that plant. I find no difference in the styles. G. ellip- 

 ticum has broader stipules, shorter fern, sepals, longer connectives, and larger fruit. 



VAR. Wightiana- leaves smaller 3 by ^ in. caudate-acuminate, stipules subu- 

 late. P. diversif'olia, fa/-., and Wightiaua, Muell. Arg. 1. c. G. diversifolium, )8. 

 Wightiana, Beddome Forester's Man. 193. Brad.eia Wightiaua, Wall. Cat. 

 7862. 



42. G-. grlaucifolium, Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxiv. 65 ; branchlets 

 very slender and leaves quite glabrous, leaves 2|-3^ in. elliptic or elliptic- 

 ovate or -oblong acuminate base very unequal, petiole slender, flower very 

 minute, male shortly pedicelled glabrous, anthers 3, fern, subsessile. sepals 

 hispid, style conical obtuse glabrous longer than the pnberulons ovary, cap- 

 sule depressed turbinate 3-4-angled glabrous crown flat. Kvrz For. FL 



Y 2 



