Phy'lanthm.] CXVII. EUPHORBIACE^. 1423 



24. P. hypospodius (grey on underside of leaves), F. v. M., Vici. Nat. 

 March 1892. A glabrous shrub, of about 14ft. in height. Leaves 

 •distichous, entire, attaining 4in. in length and 2in. in breadth, ovate or eiliptic- 

 .lanceolate, on short petioles, thinly veined, upper surface dull-green, whitish- 

 :grey on the underside. Sepals pale-coloured. Male flowers minute, on very 

 short pedicels, each cluster of flowers containing one or two female ones of 

 larger size. Outer perianth-segments almost ovate, inner ones more orbicular 

 ■and slightly longer. Stamens 6 ; anthers free, roundish, and nearly as long as 

 the filaments. Style hardly any, stigmas 3, channelled or flattened, undivided, 

 finally rigid. Fruit about 4 lines in diameter, much longer than the perianth- 

 segments, brownish outside. Seeds nearly 2 lines long. 



Hab.: Eussell River, Stephen Johnson. 



25. P. hvLxifolins {B\ixns-lea,\eil), Reinii: in Elume Cat. A shrub. I^eaves 

 •ovate unequally-rbomboid, entire, glabrous, 12 to 16 lines long. Flowers 

 •axillary, pedicellate, males in pairs, females solitary, appearing racemose from 

 the branchlets often losing their leaves. — Scepasma biu-ifolia, Blume, Jliq. Fl. 

 Eata. i. 2. 378 ; F. v. M. Fragm. x. 121. 



Hab.: Estuary of the Burdekin River, E. Fitzalan {F. v. M.). 



(I have no specimens of these last two species, and the scanty descriptions leave the affinity 

 ■doubtful). 



15. GLOCHIDION, Forst. 



(From the glochidiate style.) 



(Bradleia, Gwrtn.). 



Flowers moncecious or dioecious, apetalous eglandular (without disk-scales or 

 glands). Male flower : Sepals 6, rarely 5, spreading in 2 series, imbricate. 

 Anthers 3 to 8, connate in an. ellipsoid or oblong sessile column with linear cells, 

 ■dehiscence extrorse, connective produced into separate points or connate in an 

 umbonate head. Pistillode none, or very rarely minute and hidden between the 

 ■anthers. Female flowers : Calyx usually of 6 short imbricate sepals, or shortly 

 tubular and unequally toothed or cleft. Ovary 3 to 15-celled ; styles connate in 

 «, globose conical or sub-clavate column, lobed or toothed at the tip, 

 sometimes obscure or confluent with the top of the ovary, usually lengthening 

 during or after the flowering ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule of 3 or more 2- 

 valved cocci, often with twice as many lobes as cells, globose or orbicular and 

 ■depressed or intruded at the base and top, crowned by the often enlarged style ; 

 •cocci coriaceous or crustaceous, epicarp separable or not. Seeds hemispherical 

 or laterally compressed, testa crustaceous with often a succulent coat, albumen 

 Jleshy, cotyledons flat.-^Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, distichous, shortly 

 petiolate, entire. Flowers small in axillary clusters. 



Species numerous in tropical Asia and Africa. 



In the Flora Australiensis vi. 93 and also in Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. iii. 273, this genus is 

 reduced to a section of Phyllanthus, but as one of the authors of the latter work has since in the 

 n. of Brit. lud. v. 305 given to it generic rank, I have followed his example. Sir J. D. 

 Hookers reasons for keeping Gloehidion distinct from Phyllantltus is the total absence of h, 

 ■disk, and the singular modification of its styles and stigmas. 



Trees. 



Ovary and capsule slightly furrowed, 3 to 7- celled 1. G. Fcrdiiiandi. 



Ovary and capsule deeply lobed, 3-celled 2. G. lobocarpus. 



1. Cr. Ferdinand! Muell. Arg. in Flora 1865, 879, a?id in DC. Trod. 



XV. ii. 800; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 96. " Jow-war," Stradbroke Island, 



Watkins. A small tree quite glabrous in the typical form except the ovary. 



Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, 



-often obliquely contracted at the base, usually somewhat coriaceous and 



