90 EUPHOEBIACEM. [ GLOCHIDION, 



Abundant in the grass-lands of the Sub-Himalayan forest tracts of 

 N. Oudh and Gorakhpur. DISTRIB. : N. Behar, Sikkim Terai, 

 Assam, Sylhet and Upper Burma. 



2. G. lanoeolarium, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calc. 153 ; F. B. I. v, 



308 ; Watt E. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl (ed. 2), 348 ; Gamble Man. 601 ; 

 Prain Beng. PI 930 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 577 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 

 573. Phyllanthus lanceolarius, Muell. Arg.; Brandis For. Fl. 453. 

 Bradleia lanceolaria, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 697. 



A small or medium-sized glabrous evergreen tree ; bark grey, with 

 longitudinal wrinkles ; branchlets angular, glabrous. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, glabrous and shining, 3-6 in. long, elliptic -oblong or lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, pale-green beneath, base acute, decurrent on the 

 petiole; main lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, slender; petioles J--J- in., 

 stout, channelled ; stipules triangular, acuminate. Flowers pale- 

 green. MALE-flowers many, glabrous, on filiform pedicels J-f in. 

 long. Sepals in. long, linear-oblong. Anthers 4-6 ; connectives 

 i the length of anthers, acute. FEM. -flowers smaller, few, sessile 

 or nearly so, mostly in the upper axils, a few mixed with the males, 

 Sepals unequal, lanceolate, acute, rigid, glabrous. Ovary hairy, 

 6-8-celled ; style shortly exserted, glabrous near the toothed apex, 

 Capsule hoary, about f in. in diam., orbicular, depressed, usually 

 6-8-lobed. Seeds often persistent on the axis. 



Dehra Dun, fairly common in swampy places and in moist shady 

 ravines ; also in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh. 

 It flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges 

 from Kumaon and Nepal eastwards, up to 4,000 ft. ; also in Chota 

 Nagpur, Bengal and Assam, extending to the Shan Hills and Upper 

 Burma. Roxburgh states that it sometimes grows to be a large tree 

 with hard and durable wood. The seeds yield an oil for burning, 

 and the bark is used medicinally. 



3. G. velutinum, Wight Ic. t. 1907-2 ; F. B. I. v, 322 ; Wait 

 E. D.; Kanjilal For. FL (ed. 2), 348 ; Gamble Man. 602 ; Collett FL 

 Siml. 451 ; Prain Beng. PL 931 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 578 ; Brandis 

 Ind. Trees 574. Phyllanthus nepalensis, Muell. Arg.; Brandis For. 

 FL 453. -Vern. Chamdri (Dehra Dun). 



A small or moderate-sized tree ; young branches petioles under surface 

 of leaves and inflorescence clothed with soft velvety pubescence. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, 2-4J in. long, from orbicular to elliptic- 

 oblong or lanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, base usually round- 

 ed, upper surface puberulous or glabrate ; main lateral nerves 6-8 



