GLOCHIDION.] EUPHORBIACE&. 89 



flowers : Sepals 6, rarely 5, spreading, in 2 series, imbricate. Stamens 

 connate in an ellipsoid or oblong sessile column ; anthers 3-8 (or 

 more), cells linear, bursting outwards, connectives produced as 

 free points or connate in an umbonate head. Pistillode none or 

 rarely minute. FEMALE-flowera : Calyx usually of 6 short imbricate 

 sepals, or shortly tubular and unequally toothed or cleft. Ovary 

 3-15-celled ; styles connate in a globose conic or subclavate column 

 lobed or toothed at the tip, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a capsule 

 of three or more 2-valved cocci, often with twice as many lobes 

 as cells, globose or orbicular and depressed or intruded at the base 

 and apex, crowned by the enlarged style ; cocci coriaceous or crusta- 

 ceous, the epicarp separable or not. Seeds hemispherical or laterally 

 compressed, testa crustaceous and with often a succulent coat ; 

 albumen copious, fleshy, cotyledons flat. Species 135, in Asia 

 and Polynesia. 



Anthers 4 or more ; leaves glabrous beneath : 



Pedicels of male flowers stout, about J in. 



long ; leaves glaucously purplish beneath 1. G. multiloculare. 

 Pedicels of male flowers filiform, 4-J in. long ; 



leaves pale-green beneath . . . 2. G. lanceolarium. 



Anthers 3 ; leaves softly tomentose beneath . 3. G. velutinum. 



1. G. multiloculare, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calc. 152 ; F. B. I. v, 

 307; Gamble Man. 601 ; Prain Beng. PL 930 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 

 672. Bradleia multilocularis, Spreng.; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. in, 696. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree with usually drooping branches, 

 branchlets angular, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous, purplish -brown, 3-5 in. long, oblong, linear-oblong or obovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, apiculate, lower surface glaucous ; main lateral 

 nerves 5-8 pairs and with many prominent transverse veins between ; 

 petioles stout, -^ in. long, stipules triangular-ovate, cuspidate. 

 MALE-flowers small ; pedicels stout, in. long. Perianth -J- in. in 

 diam. Sepals oblong. Anthers 4-12, adnate to the middle, connec- 

 tives very short. FEM.-flowers J in. in diam., stoutly pedicelled. 

 Ovary 10-15-celled ; style low, slightly furrowed. Capsule orbicular, 

 J-l in. in diam. ; epicarp thin, reddish, separating from the coria- 

 ceous cocci. Seeds persistent on the axis, furnished with a fleshy 

 orange-red coat. 



