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410 EUPHORBIACER. [ Gelonium. 
Has.—More or less frequent in the tropical forests from Arracan, Pegu, and 
Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr.-May; Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.=Si8. 
Metam. 
Remarks.—Wood white, only fit for house-posts and similar purposes, 
Exudes yellow resin from the buds. : 
2. G. bifarium, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (25—30+8—12+ 
2—3), all parts glabrous; leaves obovate to elliptical and obovate- 
lanceolate, acute at the base, on a very short thick petiole, blunt or 
bluntish, entire, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers small, on minutely 
puberulous pedicels about 2 lin. long, forming sessile clusters oppo- 
site to the leaves; calyx minutely puberulous, ciliolate; ovary 
2- occasionally 3-celled, glabrous, the stigmas minute and very short, 
sessile, 2-lobed ; capsules fleshy-coriaceous, usually didymous, very 
rarely 3-coccous, the size of a large pea; seeds globular, enveloped 
in a white arillus. 
Has.—In the bamboo jungles on Middle Andaman, along Middle Straits.— 
Fr. Apr.—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
BALIOSPERMUM, BI. 
Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate in bud. Petals 
none. Disk in both sexes developed, in the females urceolate, in 
the males gland-like and usually free. Stamens 15 or more, free 
or connate b irs, on an elevated central receptacle ; en 
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ute ; leaves sinuate-lobed, glabrous (at least. above) . . B. montanum 
Ovary densely hirsute ; leaves entire, pubeseent (beneath densely so). B, reidioides. 
xX X Calyx accrescent in fruit. 
Hypogynous glands free ; ovary slightly pubescent ; capsules quite 
glabrous F ‘ # ; ete : iS f st p . B. calycinum. — 
. B. montanum, Muell. Arg.—WNat-cho.—A large undershrub 3 
dshape (the upper ones usually smaller, narrower and shorter q 
petioled), from oblong and elliptical to obovate- and linear-oblongy 
simple or more or less sinuate-3-7-lobed, rounded or obtuse at 
