Chetocarpus. | EUPHORBIACER. 409 
1. Ch, castaneaecarpus, Thw.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 284.—An 
evergreen tree (30—40 + 12—20 an 3—4), all parts. glabrous or 
the leaf-buds slightly appressed tawny-pubescent ; leaves ovate- to 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the base, on a strong petiole 2-3 
lin. long, bluntish acuminate, 3-5 in. long, entire, coriaceous, glab- 
rous and. glossy, turning blackish in drying; flowers small, on 
short puberulous pedicels, in small axillary clusters ; ovary 3-celled, 
densely hispid ; styles sessile, deeply 2-cleft; capsules almost glo- 
r, 3-coccous, the size of a small cherry, densely covered with 
rigid retrorse red-brown hispid bristles ; seeds glossy black, with a 
cone 2-lobed crimson spermaphore. 
—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially the open ones, from 
Chittareag, Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans,—FI. 
RS. ; Fr. Jan.-March.—s.—SS.=Metam. SiS. Lat. p. 
GELONIUM, Roxb. 
Flowers dioecious, very rarely monoecious. Calyx imbricate in 
bud. Petals none. Disk in males developed or often none, in 
females urceolate and sometimes accompanied by a few staminodes. 
Stamens more or less numerous, from 6-60, free, occupying the 
central elevated disk; anthers 2-rimose, longitudinally adnate. 
Ovary-rudiment none. Ovary 3-2- rarely 4-celled, with a solitary 
ovule in each cell; stigmas as many as ovary-cells, sessile, 3-2-cleft. 
Capsule fleshy coriaceous, 3-2- rarely 4- -coccous, with as man 
seeds, or 1-seeded by abortion. Seeds enveloped in a white arillus.— 
Trees or shrubs, with distichous, alternate or rarely opposite, simple, 
penninerved leaves. Flowers usually rather small, in leaf-opposed 
or axillary clusters. 
Stigmas large, 2- ney the lobes ——— capsules 8-coccous, the 
size of a cherry; pedicels glabro - G. multiflorum. 
Stigmas minute, sessile, 2-cleft; expe usually didymous, the 
size of a pea; _— els puberulous G. bifarium. 
Coriaceous ; ovary 3-celled, the 3s stigmas ra rather large but short, 2. 
cleft, slag acted capsules globular-3-coccous, the size of a 
try, fleshy-coriaceous, yellow or orange-yellow when fully ripe 
slabs seeds large, enveloped in a white fleshy arillus, ; 
