Gelonium.~\ cxxxv. EurnoRBiACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 459 



parallel, introrse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Sepals 5-6, narrower than in 

 the males, imbiicate. Disk cupular ; rarely enlarged and bearing stami- 

 nodes. Ovary 2-4- cell ed ; styles minute, renifbrm, semi -lunate or 2-fid, 

 depressed ; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit globose, 3-4-gonous or 2-4-lobed, fleshy 

 coriaceous or crustaceous, tardily dehiscent. Seeds subglobose, arillate, 

 testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. Species 15, 

 Tropical Asian and African. 



1. G-. multiflorum, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. iii. t. 10, f. 31 A; 



leaves 3-7 in. oblong or oblong-lanceolate obtuse acute or acuminate, male 

 fl. in. diam., stamens 40-60, fruit - in. diam. globose obscurely 3-lobed, 

 pericarp very thick fleshy. MuelL Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1127 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 409. G. fasciculatum, Roxb. 1. Ind. iii. 832 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3231. Suregada glabra, Boxb. mss. S. multiflora, Baill. Eludes 

 Gen. Euphorb. 396. S. bilocularis, Wa^l. Cat. 7981 B (in part), C. Rot- 

 tlera fasciculata & congesta, Herb. If am. Wall. Cat. 7980 B (one sheet) and 

 7982. 



BENGAL and the CIKCABS, Roxburgh, and' northward to the foot of SIKKIM 

 HIMALAYA. J. D. H. From CHITTAGONG to TENASSERIM and MALACCA, UPPER 

 and L WER BURMA. DISTRIB. Siam, China, Malay Islands. 



A tree, 30-40 ft., quite glabrous. Leaves bright green, coriaceous, narrowed 

 at the acute base ; petiole very short. Flowers sometimes subracemose, yellow, 

 odorous, males in clusters or peduncled cymes; receptacle glandular. Stules short, 

 papillose, obcordate or 2-cleft with the arms 2-fid. Fruit rough, with a very 

 thick pericarp enclosing 3 crustaceous 2-valved cocci. Seeds J in. diam., sub- 

 globose, testa with broad shallow pits. The minute styles are very variable, usually 

 obcordate, but sometimes with short subulate papillose arms. In a cultivated specimen 

 (Hort. Liverpool) the fern, disk is greatly enlarged and pitted and bearing a few 

 slt-nder filaments. This and the two following 1 species are mixed in Wallich's 

 Herbarium, where his 7981 A is G.bifarium; B consists of multiflorum (Roitlera 

 fasciculata and congesta, Herb. Ham.), together with G. lanceolatum and bifarium 

 (Rottlera lanceolata and bifaria, Herb. Ham.) ; C is multiflorum. 



2. G-. lanceolatum, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 832; leaves 3-5 in. from 

 obovate-oblong to elliptic elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse acute or 

 acuminate entire or more or less acutely serrate, male fl. - in. diam., stamens 

 20-40, capsule ^ | in. diam. 3-lobed, cocci keeled. MuelL Arq. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 1127; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 831 ; Wight Ic. t. 1867; Wall. Cat. 

 7983; Beddome Foresters Man. 214 (excl. syn.}; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 

 xxix. ; Thivaites Enum. 274 (excl. syn.}. G. bifarium, Herb. Wight. Gr. 

 angiistifolium, MuelL I. c. 1128. Suregada angnstifolia, Baill. Etudes Gren. 

 Euphorb. 396. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne ; Naggur Hills, Wight; Cochin, Johnson. 

 CEYLON ; common, ascending to 4000 ft. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves extremely variable, usually much smaller than in 

 G. multiflorum, and more often serrated, sometimes spinulosely so. Flowers smaller, 

 sometimes in short racemes of which the rachis is covered with imbricating bracteoles. 

 Capsules rough ; cocci crustaceous. Seeds globose, -| in. diam., testa with large 

 shallow pits. Roxburgh, I think, describes under this the fruit of G. mult/floruin. 

 The varieties proposed by Mueller (elliptica, lanceolata and spathulata) all, run into 

 one another. The specific name is not very appropriate, truly lanceolate leaves being 

 exceptional. Thwaites, under this species, says that he is disposed to refer all the 

 Indian species to varieties of one. 



3. G. bifarium, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 830; leaves 5-6 in. elliptic-oblong 

 or -lanceoLte acute or acuminate, male fl. - in. diam. in sessile fascicles', 



