Glochidion.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



A bush or small tree ; branches pendulous. Leaves bifariously rather close-set 

 and uniform, dull greyish green above when dry, pale beneath ; nerves 1012 pair and 

 cross-nervuk-s raised beneath ; petiole f in. ; stipules ovate. Male pedicels $ in., 

 perianth ^ in. diain., connectives short obtuse. Fern. fl. minute, sepals obtuse. 

 Capsule 5-^ in. diam. Seeds nearly hemispheric. Griffith in a note describes the 

 fern, perianth as of 3 outer minute sepals and 3 inner larger. 



57. Gr. dasystylum, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 344 ; branchlets and leaves 

 beneath softly tomentose, leaves 2-3 in. thin ovate acuminate base obtuse 

 or rounded, fern. fl. long pedicelled subumbellately fascicled, styles 3 filiform 

 hairy, capsules fascicled pedicels slender depressed 3-4-celled 6-8-lobed tomen- 

 tose with spreading hairs. 



MARTABAN ; in forests east of Tounghoo, ascending to 3500 ft., Kurz. 



An evergreen tree, 15-20 ft. ; branchlets slender, terete, almost hirsute with rusty 

 hairs. Leaves pubescent or glabrate ; nerves 57 pair, very slender, arched, cross- 

 nervules distant; petiole T \y in., tomentose; stipules minute, subulate. Flowers 

 unknown. Capsules - J in. diam. ; styles inconspicuous, united at the base only. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



58. G-. mishmiense, HooJc.f. ; branches stout and leaves beneath and 

 inflorescence densely brown-tomentose, leaves 6-8 in. coriaceous oblong obtuse 

 or subacute base acute glabrous above except the costa, nerves and cross- 

 nervules strong beneath, capsules clustered pedicelled much depressed 4-8- 

 celled 8-10-lobed densely hoary-tomentose, stigma subglobose or very shortly 

 conic sunk in an apical depression, seeds hemispheric red. 



UPPER ASSAM ; on the Mishmi Hills, Griffith (Ketv Distrlb. 4843). 



This has the habit of G. zeylanicum, from the tomentose varieties of which it differs 

 by the greatly depressed capsules clothed with white tomentum and the small obtuse 

 stigma in its small apex. The capsules are nearly in. diam., and the seeds | in. 



59. G. Curtisii, Hook. f. ; branchlets petioles and leaves beneath 

 pubescent, leaves 5-7 by 1^ 2 in. linear-oblong base very unequal-sided, 

 nerves 8-10 pair pubescent above very strong beneath, male fl. small 

 clustered pedicels very slender, anthers 3, connectives very short. 



PENANG ; Cooley Lines on Government Hill, Curtis (No. 670). 

 This appears very distinct from all the preceding species. 



PHYLLANTHUS ASPERUS, Muell. Arg. in Flora xlviii. (1865) 377, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 297 ; branchlets hispidulous and obscurely fulvous tomentose, leaves 2^3^ 

 by 1 j in. elliptic ovate or obovate tip rounded mucronulate pubescent on both surfaces 

 and rough with subtuberculate white hairs, midrib and nerves prominent paler than the 

 interspaces and beautifully reticulated, pedicels of both sexes short, of male pubescent 

 of fern, very short tomentose, fern, sepals oblong-obovate subacute pubescent on both 

 surfaces, ovary globose 4-celled subtomentose, style snbcylindric pubescent twice or 

 .thrice as long as and about as broad as the ovary. Sfddome Forester's Man. 193. 

 Malabar and Concan, Stocks, Law in "Herb. 2nd. Or., H.f. fy T." (Mueller Arg.}. 

 I fail to recognize this. 



PHYLLANTHUS SILHETICUS, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1. c. 378, andin DC I. c.; branch- 

 lets rather stout tomentose with black yellow or rufous hairs, leaves 3-4f by 2-2^ in. 

 elliptic oblong shortly acute margined with a yellowish line base obtuse or sub- 

 cordate, nerves above and beneath softly yellowish pubescent, pedicels all very short 

 globose 4-celled obscurely tomentose, style conical scarcely longer than the ovary, 

 capsule T 3 o in. diam. depressed small pubescent deeply 6-grooved. Silhet, J. D. 

 Hooker (Mueller Arg.). I do not recognize this. Mueller says that the yellow 

 marginal line of the leaves resembles that of G. zeylanicum. 



