322 CXXXY. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Glochidion. 



ii. 345. Phyllanthus glaueifolius, Wall. Cat. 7923; Muell. Arg. in Flora 

 xlviii. (1865) 378, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 298. 



TENASSERIM ; at Martaban, WalH'-Ji ; Mergui, Griffith. 



Branches terete, smooth ; branchlets long, glabrous to the tips. Leaves thin, Hark 

 above when dry, dirty white beneath, upper base rounded, lower acute ; nerves 8-10 

 pair, exceedingly slender, cross-nervules faint ; petiole - J- in. ; stipules triangular. 

 Flowers in minute axillary clusters; male | in. diam., pedicels as long; sepals of 

 both sexes oblong, obtuse ; fern. fl. T \y in. lonar, including the exsprted style. I have 

 seen no capsules, and there is neither flower nor fruit in Wallich's specimens, 

 which are the only ones mentioned by Mueller, who, however, describes the cap- 

 sules as above ; as does Kurz, who adds that they are J-^ in. diam., and sometimes.' 

 pruinose. Kurz further describes the sepals of both sexes as smooth, but they are 

 hispid in Griffith's specimens (a character of no moment in the genus). The style 

 at length becomes twice the length of the sepals. In Wallich's specimens the 

 brandies are very glaucous. It resembles 18. G-. megastigma. 



43. Cr. andamanicum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 346 ; glabrous except the 

 pnberulous flowers, branchlets angular and compressed, leaves 3-4 in. thin 

 orbicular ovate or broadly elliptic -oblong glaucous beneath, male fl. small 

 on short slender pedicels, sepals oblong obtuse puberulous, anthers 3, fern, 

 fl. minute clustered sessile, style thick conical truncate nearly as broad as 

 the tomentose 4-6-celled ovary tip 5-6-lobed, capsule large much depressed 

 strongly 8-12-lobed hispidly pubescent, style very small conical sunk in the 

 intruded crown. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS ; rare, Kurz. 



An evergreen tree ; branchlets long, stout, and Uaves grey-black when dry. 

 Leaves very glaucous beneath, base rounded or suddenly acute ; nerves 5-7 pair, very 

 slender, arched, nervules few distant; petiole | in., rather slender; stipules subulate. 

 Male pedicels % in ; perianth -^ in. diam. ; connectives acute. Capsules sessile, 

 |-f in. diam., thinly crustaceous, crown sunk. Seeds large, red, irregularly trigo- 

 nously ovoid. ^ 



44. Cr. velutinum, Wight Ic. t. 1907/2; branches petioles leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence more or less (sometimes densely) pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves 2-5 in. from orbicular to ovate elliptic or oblong obtuse 

 or subacute rarely narrower and acuminate, male fl. shortly pedicelled, 

 sepals sparsely hairy, anthers 3, fern, subses^ile or very shortlv pedicelled, 

 sepals oblong, style stout enlarged at the truncate toothed tip and 4-7- 

 celled ovary tomentose, capsule depressed globose 4-7-celled and lobed 

 pubescent, style short in the depressed top. Beddome Forester's Man. 195. 

 Phyllanthus velutinus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 309. P. nepalensis, 

 Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. (1865) 375, and in DC. I.e. 291; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 453. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 344. Bradleia ovata, Wall. Cat. 7852 ; 

 Saill. Etudes Gen. JSupkorb. 638. 



Hot valleys of the HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, Clarke, eastwards to BURMA 

 and the KHAST* Mr-., alt. 3000 ft., Griffith, &c. DECCAN PENINSULA from the 

 Concan to the Nilarhiri Hills. 



A small tree, 20-30 ft., very variable as to the pubescence of the branches and 

 leaves. Those in western and southern examples are clothed with white or tawny 

 tomentum, in eastern ones they are much more glabrous. Leaves rather coriaceous 

 or thin, pnberulous or glabrate above ; nerves rather strong beneath, as are often the 

 cross-nervules ; petiole T V-|- in., stout ; stipules triangular. Male fl. T \j- in. diam.; 

 hepals oblong ; connectives short. Fern. fl. usually densely clustered; sepals of the 

 male ; style variously toothed, tip glabrous. Capsule variable, \-\ in. diam. The 

 eastern form migrht be regarded as a variety with more glabrous leaves and smaller 

 flowers, approaching closely to O-. Heynpanum in habit and foliage, and specimens 

 may be found to unite these species. Wallich's examples of B. ovata are in a very 



