se 
Glochidion.} ’  ~ EUPHORBIACES. 929 
A small tree ; fruit extremely poisonous. Hind. Garrar, 
garari; Uriya ae Kol. re Santal, goss nte 
1836. teareiale PATUL _Mu el: Arg, BSL 279. 
Cluytia patula F. Li 783. 
Orissa. 
A tree with dense horizontal branches. 
816. Actephila BI. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, jaar nee quite entire 
stipules deciduous. Flowers moncecious or ually dicwcious, in 
axillary clusters, males several, short- Soest females solitary 
or few, longer pedicelled. 3 Perianth usually double. Sepals 
5-6, subequal, or the inner rather larger, imbricate. Petals 5-6, 
small, scale-like, or 0. Disk broad, entire or 5-lobed. Stamens 
8-6, inserted on the disk ; filaments free or nearly so ; anther-cells 
parallel. Pistillode 3-cleft. ¢ Perianth as in male. Carpels 
ees e in a 8-celled ovary, sessile on the 5-lobed disk ; ovules 2 
ach cell; styles short, free or connate, entire or2-fid. Fruita 
les losulicides capsule of three 2-valved cocci. Seeds usually soli- 
ary in a coccus, large, 3-gonous; arillus or caruncle 0; testa thin, 
brittle; albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons fleshy, — or corrugate. 
1837, ACTEPHILA EXCELSA Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 282. 
Chittagong. 
small tree or large shrub. 
817. Glochidion Forst. 
Evergreen os or shrubs; leaves alternate, bifarious, reneged 
petioled, entir Flowers small, monecious or dicci 
axillary juke perianth simple. ¢ Sepals 6, rarely 5, OES 
ing, in 2 series, imbricate. FBotele 0. Disk 0. Stamens connate 
in an ellipsoid or oblong, sessile column; anthers 3-8, sometimes 
more ; cells linear; dehiscence extrorse ; connectives produced as 
e in an e 
minute, and hidden between the anthers. ¢ Sepals 6, short, free 
and imbricate or shortly connate, tubular and unequally toothed 
or clett. Petals 0. Disk 0. Carpels connate in a 3-15-celled 
Se ; ovules 2 in each cell; styles connate in a globose, 
columnar, conic or subclavate column, lobed or toothed at the tip. 
Fruit a capsule of 8 or more 2-valved cocci, often with twice as 
many lobes ag ee globose or orbicular and depressed or intruded 
at the base and apex, crowned by the often enlarged style; cocci 
