Glochidion.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 325 



CEYLON, Walker ; Pasdun Corle, Thwaites. 



Branchlets stout, not flexuous, terete, smooth, sometimes shortly hairy. Leaves 

 very smooth, greenish brown when dry ; nerves 4-5 pair, very slender, ascending, 

 lower almost parallel to the margin, nervules indistinct ; petiole very short and stout; 

 stipules triangular. Flowers male and fern, together in rather dense clusters, from 

 which the loug stout styles spread stellately. Male pedicel ^^ in. ; sepals broad; 

 connectives lanceolate, as long as the cells. Fern, sepals free to the base; style in. 

 long, sometimes slightly thickened upwards. Capsule unknown. The glabrous long 

 acuminate leaves with very slanting nerves seem characteristic of this species. 



51. Cr. IVToonii, Thwaites Enum. 286 (excl. syn.}-, branchlets leaves 

 beneath and inflorescence tomentose or villous, leaves 4-8 in. coriaceous 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblong acuminate or caudate base rounded or acute, 

 nerves 6-8 pairs, male fl. shortly pedicelled, anthers 3, connectives long, 

 fern, very numerous sessile or pedicelled densely clustered hispid, style 

 clavate twice or thrice as long as the linear sepals pubescent 3-cleft rather 

 narrower than the globose pubescent orglabrate 3-celled ovary, capsule glo- 

 bose slightly depressed and 6-lobed tipped with short hirsute pubescent or 

 glabrate style. Or. glaucogynum, Beddome Forester's Man. 195. Phyllan- 

 thus Moonii, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 312. P. pubescens, Moon Cat. 

 65. P. glaucogynus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 312. 



CEYLON, Walker, Gardner, Thwaites (n. 2150). 



A shrub or small tree ; branchlets rather stout, flexuous. Leaves 2-3 in. broad, 

 not black or brown when dry, puberulous or glabrate above, rarely so beneath ; nerves 

 8-10 pair, usually strong beneath ; petiole in., very stout ; stipules oblong-lanceolate. 

 Male fl. few in the clusters of fern. ; connectives as long as the cells. Fern. fl. with 

 the styles in. long ; sepals free nearly to the base, hispid. Capsule J-f in. diam. 

 This is clearly Mueller's P. glaucogynus, both according to the number he quotes 

 (C.P. 2150) and his description of foliage and style, which latter is clavate also in 

 Thwaites' description. 



52. Cr. montanum, Thwaites Enum. 286; branches and inflorescence 

 hispidly tomentose, leaves 1^-3 in. ovate broadly oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 obtuse or cuspidate beneath more or less tomentose or glabrate, base oblique 

 rounded or subacute, male fl. pedicelled, stamens 3, connectives very long, 

 fern. fl. sessile, style long, cylindric or subclavate more or less hairy, 

 3-toothed, capsule depressed globose 3-celled 6-lobed glabrous. Phyllan- 

 thus symplocoides, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 311. G. symplocoides, 

 Beddome Forester's Flor. 195. 



CEYLON ; in the Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., Thwaites. 



A tree, 15-20 ft. Leaves very coriaceous, nerves few strong beneath, stipules tri- 

 angular lanceolate. Fern, sepals narrow ; style straight slender, 3-4 times as long as 

 the sepals, narrower at the base than the globose pubescent ovary. Capsule rather deeply 

 lobed. Thwaites describes this as closely allied to &. Moonii, but more arboreous 

 with the leaves not acuminate and capsule glabrous. 



53. G. G-ardneri, Thwaites Enum. 286 ; branches glabrous or with the 

 inflorescence hispidly tomentose, leaves 2-3 in. orbicular oblong elliptic 

 acute or cuspidately acuminate base acute, male fl. shortly pedicelled, 

 anthers 3, fern, sessile few in a cluster, style very slender glabrous 3-toothed 

 thrice as long as the narrow sepals and narrower than the globose 3-celled 

 ovary, capsule glabrous depressed 3-lobed. G. leptogynum, Beddome 

 Forester's Man. 195. Phyllanthus leptogyrius, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 312. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, Walker, Gardner. 



