GlocMdion] XCVIII. EUPHOilBIACEiE 573 



in. Fl. S and ? fascicled on short woody axillary and supra-axillary peduncles^ 

 antliers 6-7. Ovary narrowed into tlie sliort conical 6-tootlied style. Capsule nearly 

 globose, hardly lobed, \ in. diam. 



p. Ovary 3~8-ceiled, style exserted in fl. 



5. G. lanceolarium, Muell. Arg. (not Dalzell).— Syn. Bi^adleia lanceolaria, Eoxb.^; 

 Phf/Ilanthus lajioeolarius^ Muell. Arg. ; Glochisandra acicmlnafa^ Wight Ic. t. 1905. 

 Vern. Angiifi, Beng. Subhimalayan tract and outer valleys, from the Jumna east- 

 wards. Behar. Chutia Nagpur. Sambulpur. Orissa and the Circars (Gamble). 

 Western Ghats (Bedd. Man. 192, Talbot List 301.) Assam. Silhet. Chittagong. 

 Pegu Yonia, eastern slopes (Kurz). Upper Burma on banks of streams and in deep 

 valleys. A middle-sized evergreen tree, branchlets angular, glabrous, 1. coriaceous, 

 glossy, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, blade 4-6, pet. J-J in. long. Fl. in 

 axillary fascicles, <? numerous, perfectly glabrous, on pedicels ^-| in., sepals ^ in. long, 

 anthers 4-6, connective J the length of anthers, $ sessile, mostly in the upper axils, 

 a few mixed with the S ? sepals glabrous, rigidly coriaceous, cuspidate. Ovary hairy 

 usually 6-, sometimes 7- or 8-eelled, hairy, narrowed gradually into the conic-oylindric 

 style, which is quite glabrous near the 6-toothed apex, and in ii. is a little longer 

 than the sepals. Capsu.le orbicular, depressed, usually 6-celled and 12-lobed, f in. diam. 

 6. G. tomentosum, Dalzell. Kanara, along streams and watercourses. Malabar. Baba- 

 budan hills, Mysore. A shrub or small tree, branchlets £1. and 1. beneath pubescent, 1. 

 ovate or oblong- elliptic, base rounded or cordate, blade 3-6, pet J- J in. long. Capsule 

 pubescent, obscurely lobed. 7. G. calocarptim, Kui-z. Andamans and Nicobai"s. Quite 

 glabrous, 1. obliquely ovate, blade 4-7, pet. i|-J in. long. Ovary glabrous, 4-5-celled, 

 narrowed into the conical style, capsule J-^ in. diam,, 8-10-lobed, 



8. G. GamlDlei, Hook. f. Yern. JPaili, Nep. Sikkim, Terai and lower hills. A small 

 tree, glabrous excepting ovary, 1- lanceolate, blade 4-5, pet. J in. long, ^ and ? fl. 

 usually in separate clusters, style twice the length of sepals, olavate, contracted above 

 the tomentose ovai-y, apex truncate but 4~5-lobed. Fr. sessile, |-| in. diam., depressed, 

 8~10-lobed. 9. G. Desmogyne, Hook, f . Tenasserim. Branchlets, 1. beneath and inflor- 

 escence pubescent or tomentose, 1. lanceolate, ovary with style villous, twice the length 

 of sepals, ovary 6-celled. Capsule villous, sessile, or shortly stalked, ] in.jdiam,, deeply 

 6-iobed ci'owned with the glabrous cylindric 3-toothed st3de. 10. G. Helferi, Hook. 1 

 Tenasserim. Nearly glabrous, 1. thin, lanceolate, blade 4-5, pet. } in. long. Ovary 

 with style glabrous, twice the length of sepals. Capsule globose, obscurely ribbed, 

 I in. diam. 11. G. zeylanicum, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb, 107, t, 3., including G. nitidumy 

 Dalz. et Gibs, and G. canarum^ Bedd. Man. 192. Chanda district (Duthie, Dec. 1889). 

 West side of the Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. Hills of the Northern 

 Circars. — Ceylon, moist low country. A small or middle-sized tree, almost entirely 

 glabrous, 1. shining, oblong or ovate-oblong, base rounded, sometimes cordate, usually 

 oblique, blade 5-7, pet. J- in. PI. $ and ? usually in axillary more or less pedunculate 

 clusters, ? ii. numerous, pedicel led. Sepals, ovary and style glabrous, style long 

 exserted, often curved, apex 5-dentate. Capsule stalked, nearly globose, J-| in. diam., 

 usually 5 -celled, obscurely 10-lobed. 



y. Ovary 3-8-celledj style aot exserted in fl. 



12. G. hirsutum, Muell. Arg.— Syn. Bradleim liirmta, Eoxb. Subhimalayan tract 

 from Sikkim eastwards. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chittagong. Andamans. — ■ 

 Malay Penins. A small or middle-sized tree, branchlets, petioles and 1. beneath softly 

 tomentose, 1. elliptic-oblong, base rounded or cordate, blade 5-7, pet. J in. PL $ and $ 

 usually in the same axillary or supra-axillary clusters, which often are on short stout 

 peduncles. <? on slender pedicels J-J in. long, sepals 6, hirsute outside, glabrous within, 

 the 3 outer larger ^^-^ in. long, anthers 6, connective very short. 9 hirsute, shortly 

 pedicelled, sepals 6, the outer slightly broader, ovary globose, glabrous or hairy, 

 narrowed into the short conical style, which is shorter than the sepals and often entire. 

 Capsule 4~6-celled, globose obscurely lobed. G. hirsutum, as hei-e defined, includes the 

 Assam and Silhet specimens' of G- zeylanicum, PI. Brit. Ind. v. 310. Assam specimens 

 C. B. Clarke 38,045 (possibly a different species) have 2 larger outer and 4 smaller 

 inner sepals, the ovary glabrous, the style slightly exsex-ted with 4 distinct teeth. 

 18. G. oblatmn, Hook. f. Subhimalayan tract from Sikkim eastwards. Khasi hills. 

 Cachar. A small tree, branchlets finely tomentose, 1. lanceolate, glaucous and often 

 thinly pubescent beneath, blade 2-4, pet. J in. long, seo. n. very slender, stipules fili- 

 form. PL <? pubescent, sepals spathulate, 9 minute, nearly sessile, densely tomentose, 

 style not exserted. Capsules on short stout pedicels, orbicular very depressed, obscurely 

 lobed, pubescent, crown not intruded. 



B. Anthers 3, sepals 6-6, distinct or only connate at the base. 



(a) Style exserted in fl. 



a. 9 fl- pedicelled, branchlets glabrous. 



